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Third District Holds County Could Require Supplemental Environmental Information From Grading Permit Applicant As Condition of...

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Like a gift to land use lawyers that never stops giving, the strange and wondrous interrelationship between CEQA and the Permit Streamlining Act (“PSA”; Gov. Code, § 65920 et seq) continues to inspire litigation and require...more

DLA Piper

Puerto Rico Supreme Court Issues Key Ruling: No Automatic Deference to Administrative Agencies’ Conclusions of Law

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Litigants in Puerto Rico now have an easier path to challenge administrative agencies’ determinations after the Puerto Rico Supreme Court (PRSC) ruled in Vázquez v. Consejo de Titulares, 2025 TSPR 56, that courts shall not...more

Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP

Supreme Court Sides with Trump Regarding Removal of NLRB and MSPB Members, and Suggests that the Federal Reserve is Different

The United States Supreme Court has granted the Trump Administration’s request to stay United States District Court Judge Beryl Howell’s order reinstating Gwynne Wilcox to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and Cathy...more

McDermott Will & Emery

No Fairytale Ending for Consumer Opposition: RAPUNZEL Reinforces Lexmark Standing Limits

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The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed the Trademark Trial & Appeal Board’s dismissal of a trademark opposition brought by a consumer, holding that mere consumer interest is insufficient to establish...more

Foley Hoag LLP - Environmental Law

The 5th Circuit Rejects EPA's Nonattainment Designations in Texas; Don't Blame Loper Bright

On May 16, in Texas v. EPA, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals rejected EPA’s nonattainment designation for two counties in Texas. What I find most interesting about the case is the reaction to it. Inside EPA (subscription...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Discretionary Denials—Act II

On March 26, 2025, the Acting Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office fundamentally changed how the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“PTAB”) initially considers petitions in post grant proceedings under the...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Is it Prior Art? Check the Provisional Application!

This Federal Circuit Opinion analyzed collateral estoppel and the extent to which the non-provisional document would benefit from the provisional application’s priority date, as it relates to Pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. § 102(e)....more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Bid Protests in Utah

Bradley has been publishing an ongoing survey of state-level bid protest processes and procedures. For the next state in this series, we focus on the protest process in Utah. What Rules Apply? Protests of state-level...more

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Connecticut Supreme Court Clarifies Attorney Exemption in Debt Negotiation Enforcement Action

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On April 8, 2025, the Connecticut Supreme Court, in Commonwealth Servicing Group, LLC v. Department of Banking, issued an opinion that only attorneys and law firms are permitted to claim the attorney exemption from the...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Chief Justice Roberts Allows Trump to Remove Wilcox from NLRB as the Supreme Court Considers the Challenge to Her Dismissal

National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) Member Gwynne Wilcox is out of a job for the third time in less than four months. Since President Donald Trump terminated Wilcox from her position on January 28, 2025, Wilcox’s...more

Ropes & Gray LLP

District Court Embraces Loper Bright and Overturns FDA Laboratory Developed Test Rule – What Lies Ahead?

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On March 31, 2025, Judge Sean D. Jordan of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas issued an opinion and judgment in American Clinical Laboratory Association v. FDA (“ACLA v. FDA”), a closely watched case...more

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On Again: Full D.C. Circuit sends Member Wilcox back to NLRB

The full U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, in a 7-4 decision, has put Gwynne Wilcox (D), the on-again, off-again Member of the National Labor Relations Board, back on the Board. Member Wilcox, a...more

Epstein Becker & Green

The LDT Final Rule Bites the Dust: Examining the Repercussions of the Federal Court’s Vacatur and What the Future May Hold

On March 31, 2025, Judge Sean D. Jordan of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas ruled that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) lacks the statutory authority to regulate laboratory developed tests...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Detour Ahead: New Approach to Assessing Prior Art Rejections Under § 102(e)

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit established a more demanding test for determining whether a published patent application claiming priority to a provisional application is considered prior art under pre-America...more

CDF Labor Law LLP

NLRB Again Without a Quorum

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Approximately three weeks ago, we reported that Judge Berly A. Howell, granted fired NLRB Board Member Gwynne A.Wilcox’s motion for summary judgment and reinstated her as a Board member. This decision restored the NLRB’s...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Still in the Dark After Loper Bright: SCOTUS Declines to Shine a Light on NLRB Deference Post-Chevron

Last year, the United States Supreme Court’s Loper Bright decision put an end to “Chevron deference,” a judicial practice of deferring to federal agency interpretations of ambiguous statutory language. While the legal...more

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Bipartisan AGs At Attention on Veterans’ Education Benefits

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A bipartisan coalition of 52 AGs filed an amicus brief in Yoon v. Collins, a case before the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims, in support of two veterans and their families who challenged the denial of G.I. Bill...more

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No APA Review of Commission Refusal to Issue Sua Sponte Show Cause Order

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The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit dismissed an appeal challenging a US International Trade Commission decision that upheld an administrative law judge’s (ALJ) order, ruling that such an order was within the...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Supreme Court Decides Bondi, Attorney General, et al. v. Vanderstok, et al.

On March 26, 2025, the Supreme Court decided Bondi, Attorney General, et al. v. Vanderstok, et al., No. 23-852, and held that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives’ (ATF) rule interpreting the Gun Control...more

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Port Arthur Community Action Network (PACAN) v. Texas Commission on Environmental Quality—A Nut Case?

In Port Arthur Community Action Network (PACAN) v. Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, the Texas Supreme Court clarified the statutory definition of “Best Available Control Technology”(BACT) under the Texas Clean Air...more

Holland & Knight LLP

A Look at Ongoing Nuclear Litigation

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As part of an ongoing spate of litigation, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) filed a motion to dismiss, on procedural grounds, in a case that challenges its authority to require construction and operating licenses...more

Knobbe Martens

IPR Standing Arguments Not Presented to the Board Are Forfeited

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APPLE INC. v. GESTURE TECHNOLOGY PARTNERS, LLC - Before Moore, Prost, and Stoll. Appeal from the Patent Trial And Appeal Board. A patent owner forfeits its argument that an IPR petitioner lacks standing under 35 U.S.C....more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

Judge Newman Files Reply Brief in Newman v. Moore

The Honorable Pauline Newman, Circuit Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, has been battling her suspension from the Court imposed by the Judicial Council for two years (including proceedings leading...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

Eighth Circuit Broadens Injunction Prohibiting Implementation of SAVE Federal Student Loan Repayment Plan, Calls Into Question...

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On February 18, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit—following up on its August 2024 unsigned order—resolved an expedited appeal concerning a district court injunction preventing the U.S. Department of...more

Proskauer - Law and the Workplace

DOL Appeal of Decision Invalidating 2024 Overtime Rule Likely on Last Legs

On November 15, 2024, in State of Texas v. United States Dep’t of Labor, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas ruled that the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) exceeded its rulemaking authority by...more

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