all - Opinion Summaries

In re J.W.

Juvenile Law, Family Law
Affirmed a judgment terminating a mother's parental rights and selecting adoption as the permanent plan. The biological mother of a child who had been...

Fowler v. Guerin

Education Law, ERISA, Constitutional Law
Held that Washington public school teachers could proceed with their action seeking the return of investment interest that was allegedly skimmed from...

Abbott v. Pastides

Constitutional Law, Education Law
Held that the University of South Carolina did not violate students' First Amendment rights when it required a student leader to attend a meeting to...

Moore v. Urquhart

Landlord Tenant Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Constitutional Law
Held that tenants could proceed with a constitutional challenge to a Washington statute that in some circumstances allows evictions without a court...

Labatte v. US

Contracts, Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law
Reversed and remanded where the plaintiff appealed from a judgment of the Court of Federal Claims which had dismissed his complaint for lack of...

Core Wireless Licensing v. Apple, Inc.

Intellectual Property, Patent
Affirmed in part, reversed in part, and vacated in part. Plaintiff brought a patent infringement action. A jury found that the defendant infringed on...

Click-to-Call Tech. v. Ingenio, Inc.

Patent, Administrative Law
Remanded with instructions to dismiss, in a case where the Federal Circuit concluded that the Patent Trial and Appeal Board erred in determining that...

Rangel v. PLS Check Cashers of California, Inc.

Class Actions, Labor & Employment Law
Affirmed the dismissal, on res judicata grounds, of a proposed wage-and-hour class action. While the plaintiff conceded that she was subject to a...

In Re: Power Integrations, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Patent
Denied petitions for writ of mandamus. Plaintiff sought a writ challenging the decision of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board denying the institution...

Sigvaris, Inc. v. US

International Law, International Trade
Affirmed a judgment of the US Court of International Trade (ITC) which had found that the certain merchandise involving compression hosiery was not...