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Litigation Byte (January 2025 Edition)

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Delivered in digestible, insightful bites, McGlinchey’s Litigation Byte is a monthly roundup of financial services decisions and cases nationwide that impact your business....more

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Supreme Court Remands NLRB Successor Bar Case, Signaling Potential Changes to Board Deference Doctrine

On December 16, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court vacated a D.C. Circuit opinion in Hosp. Menonita de Guayama, Inc. v. Nat’l Lab. Rels. Bd., 94 F.4th 1 (D.C. Cir. 2024) that upheld a decision by the National Labor Relations Board...more

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The Demise of the Chevron Doctrine Begins to Impact ESG Jurisprudence

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Last week, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals vacated and remanded the appeal from a lower court's decision upholding the Biden Administration's Department of Labor rule enabling ERISA plans to consider ESG factors, ordering...more

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Supreme Court’s Remand of FDIC Enforcement Action: Any Larger Impact on Agency Deference?

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While we wait for the U.S. Supreme Court to decide the fate of the Chevron doctrine governing courts’ deference to agencies’ interpretations of law, its recent decision in another case has flown under the radar. In Calcutt,...more

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Fourth Circuit Revisits FCC TCPA Deference Issues Following PDR Network

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Questions over the extent to which district courts must defer to FCC rulings have had a significant impact over key legal issues that drive outcomes in the TCPA litigation. Prior to the Supreme Court’s opinion in PDR Network,...more

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Court Remands Northern Long-eared Bat Listing Back to USFWS

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Yesterday, in Center for Biological Diversity v. Everson?, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia overturned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s (USFWS) decision to list the northern long-eared bat...more

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“Equal to” Means “Not Exceed” when Determining Patent Term Adjustment

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The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit found that the US Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) erred in calculating a patent term adjustment (PTA) for a patent covering an oral osmotic form of an antihypertensive drug,...more

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Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Et Al. v. Iancu

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Federal Circuit Summary - Before Dyk, Schall, and Reyna. Appeal from U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. Summary: The USPTO is only authorized to reduce Patent Term Adjustment (PTA) for applicant...more

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Latest Federal Court Cases - July 2018 #5

Applications in Internet Time, LLC v. RPX Corp., Appeal Nos. 2017-1698, et al. (Fed. Cir. July 9, 2018) (unsealed July 24, 2018) In a lengthy decision on an issue of first impression, the Federal Circuit addressed the...more

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Federal Circuit Review - November 2017

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Fractured Federal Circuit Holds Patent Owner Does Not Bear Burden of Persuasion in IPR Motions to Amend - In Aqua Products, Inc. v. Matal, Appeal No. 2015-1177, the Federal Circuit, sitting en banc, held that a patent...more

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Jumping into the Deep End: Amendment Practice Post-Aqua Products

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In the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit’s recent en banc decision in Aqua Products, a deeply fractured court provides a glimpse into the perspectives that some of the judges have on post-grant practice at the...more

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SCOTUS Sends Auto Workers Back to Circuit Court for Overtime Regulation “Repairs”

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You may not even know the technical name for workers at the local car dealership who diagnose what is wrong with your vehicle and tell you how it can be repaired. They are called auto service advisors, and whether they are...more

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Putting the Brakes on the DOL: USSC Finds that DOL Not Entitled to Deference on Service Manager Overtime Regulation

Yesterday, in Encino Motorcars v. Navarro, No. 15-415, the U.S. Supreme Court vacated a Ninth Circuit ruling that had deferred to a Department of Labor 2011 regulation that auto service advisors were nonexempt and should...more

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Federal Circuit Review | September 2015

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Federal Circuit Remands Record Damages Award For New Trial On Extraterritorial Sales - In Carnegie Mellon University v. Marvell Technology Group, Ltd., Appeal No. 2014-1492, the Federal Circuit reversed a damages award...more

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Ninth Circuit Finds CFPB Interpretation of RESPA Provision Not Entitled to Deference

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On August 24, 2015, the Ninth Circuit found that the CFPB’s interpretation offered in an amicus brief of 12 U.S.C. § 2607(c)(2) of the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA) was not entitled to Chevron deference...more

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Supreme Court Strikes Down EPA’s Mercury and Air Toxics Standard

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Delivering a sharp blow to President Obama’s efforts to regulate coal plants, the U.S. Supreme Court invalidated the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) 2012 Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) rule, finding that...more

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Because EPA Failed to Consider Costs to Industry, Supreme Court Overturns Power Plant Regulation

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The Mercury and Air Toxics Standards rule ("MATS") for electric utility steam generating units has been reversed and remanded with the Supreme Court’s much-anticipated decision in Michigan v. EPA on June 29, 2015. Writing for...more

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