When thinking about estoppel and the PTAB, the § 315(e) estoppels—relating to grounds a petitioner raised or reasonably could have raised—are likely the first to come to mind. However, other types of ...
The doctrine of collateral estoppel precludes a party from re-litigating an issue raised and decided against that party or a party in privity in a prior action. Determinations of quasi-judicial ...
When is a judgment or order a final judgment on the merits? In his Law and the Family column, Joel Brandes discusses issues related to the doctrine of res judicata which are frequently involved in ...
March 20, 2025 - In February 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit clarified when collateral estoppel might apply in a district court case following an invalidity determination by ...
Lewis Tesser, a partner at Tesser, Ryan & Rochman, and Timothy Nolen, an associate at the firm write that petitioners should focus on the extent to which defendants provided a strong defense effort in ...
The Supreme Court’s Friday ruling in Trump v. CASA may have clipped the wings of universal injunctions, but it left open — and almost surely elevated — the role of an obscure but fundamental doctrine ...
The 2024 election is inevitably headed to the Supreme Court. The Trump legal team plans to appeal the Colorado Supreme Court’s judgment this week that Donald Trump is not a constitutionally valid ...