United States Federal Circuit - January 2011 Opinion Summaries

Slattery v. US

M&A, Administrative Law, Banking Law
In an en banc review of the Court of Federal Claims ruling against the government in a suit on behalf of shareholders of a failing bank that merged...

Preminger v. Sec'y of Veterans Affairs

Administrative Law, Government Benefits
In an issue of first impression, 38 U.S.C. section 502 does confer jurisdiction on the court to review a denial by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs...

Innovair Aviation Ltd. v. US

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Government Law
Decision of the United States Court of Federal Claims that the Government had taken an aviation company's property without just compensation under the...

Manor Care, Inc. v. US

Government Law, Tax Law
In a nursing home operators suit under the Tucker Act, 28 U.S.C. section 1491(a)(1) claiming an income tax refund, alleging that the Commissioner of...

Arlington Indus., Inc. v. Bridgeport Fittings, Inc.

Intellectual Property, Patent
In an action for infringement of patents related to an improved electrical connector that snaps into electrical junction boxes with one hand instead...

Warrior Sports, Inc. v. Dickinson Wright, P.L.L.C.

Intellectual Property, Patent, Legal Malpractice, Civil Procedure, Ethics & Professional Responsibility
In a patent owner's malpractice action against a law firm, arising from an underlying patent infringement litigation involving patents directed to...

ILOR, LLC v. Google, Inc.

Cyberspace Law, Government Law, Intellectual Property, Patent
In a patent infringement suit against Google, Inc., brought by an Internet company, involving a patent directed to a method for adding a user...

Navajo Nation v. U.S.

Government Law, Indian Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law
In an Indian Tribe's suit seeking damages for an alleged Fifth Amendment taking of its right to develop land granted to it by the United States in...

Chattler v. U.S.

Government Contracts, Government Law, Transportation
In plaintiff's action against the United States and Department of State asserting a Little Tucker Act claim under 28 U.S.C. section 1346(a)(2) for...

SKF USA Inc. v. US

Administrative Law, Government Law, International Law, International Trade
The decision of the Court of International Trade, affirming the final determination of the United States Department of Commerce in its seventeenth...