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Justice Brett Kavanaugh has emerged as a major source of judicial nominees in the second Trump administration, with the president repeatedly looking to the justice’s former clerks to fill influential appellate court vacancies.
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Seventh Circuit Pauses Bovino Daily Court Appearances
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Professors Urge Appeals Court to Clarify Hidden-Sale Patent Rule
Legal scholars from Stanford and the University of Chicago urged the Federal Circuit to rule that secret third-party sales don’t qualify as prior art when analyzing patents’ validity, challenging a broader reading of the on-sale bar from a recent district court decision.
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Texas Senators’ Picks for Federal Judgeships Sent to White House
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