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The United States Supreme Court is the highest court of the United States and is charged with interpreting federal law, including the United States Constitution. The Court's docket is largely discretionary with only a limited number of cases granted review each term. The Court is comprised of one chief justice and eight associate justices, who are nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate to hold lifetime positions. less -

Supreme Court sets new rules for Clean Air Act lawsuits

Hogan Lovells on 7/1/2025

In Environmental Protection Agency v. Calumet Shreveport Refining, L.L.C., the Supreme Court set out the test for determining the proper venue for judicial review of EPA actions under the Clean Air Act (CAA). Challenges to...more

Venue Matters: Supreme Court Clarifies Where Clean Air Act Cases Belong

Goldberg Segalla on 6/27/2025

On June 18, the U.S. Supreme Court issued two decisions that clarify a deceptively simple question under the Clean Air Act: Where should lawsuits challenging EPA actions be filed? The rulings – EPA v. Calumet Shreveport...more

Supreme Court Interprets the Clean Air Act's Venue Provision in Companion Cases

Holtzman Vogel Baran Torchinsky & Josefiak on 6/19/2025

Today, the Supreme Court interpreted the Clean Air Act’s venue framework for judicial review of EPA actions. Under 42 U. S. C. §7607(b)(1), “nationally applicable” EPA actions can be challenged only in the D. C. Circuit,...more

Pendent Venue: What Is It, and Can You Still Rely on It?

Fitch, Even, Tabin & Flannery LLP on 7/9/2021

Venue, in the context of the federal law, refers to the judicial district in which a case can be heard. Venue must be established for each cause of action in a case. In most federal civil litigation, proper venue is...more

Key SCOTUS Decisions in Tech – First Half 2017

Fenwick & West LLP on 8/10/2017

Despite being short one justice for much of the year, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down multiple significant decisions this past term that can unsettle long-standing legal understandings in multiple technology fields. These...more

New Life for Venue Challenges under TC Heartland after Rule 12 Motions Are Concluded

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 5/31/2017

In a May 23, 2017 Text Order, the District Court for the Central District of Illinois directed the parties sua sponte to brief the impact of the Supreme Court’s May 22, 2017 decision in TC Heartland LLC v. Kraft Foods Group...more

Fresh From the Bench: Precedential Patent Cases From the Federal Circuit:

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC on 5/30/2017

The big news this week (and it is particularly big news in Tyler and Marshall, Texas) is that the ?Supreme Court rules that a defendant “resides” for purposes of the patent venue statute only ?where the defendant actually ?is...more

T.C. Heartland Leaves Open Patent Venue Questions

Smith Anderson on 5/29/2017

The words “venue” and “headline news” are typically not found in the same sentence. Yet the United States Supreme Court’s decision in T.C. Heartland LLC v. Kraft Foods Group Brands LLC, 581 U.S. ___ (2017) managed to achieve...more

Will Supreme Court Hear A Challenge to SEC Venue Decisions?

Dorsey & Whitney LLP on 3/29/2016

The SEC continues to prevail in actions brought challenging its venue selections. On March 28, 2016, the Supreme Court denied a request for a writ of certiorari in Bebo v. SEC, 799 F. 3d 765 (7th Cir. 2015). Ms. Bebo’s case...more

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