The Daily Caller’s June 12 headline declares that “Justice Gorsuch’s First SCOTUS Opinion Is Super Boring.”  Not so!  Justice Gorsuch is off to a rousing start by transforming what sounds like a super-boring topic—the meaning of “debt collector” under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act—into an opinion that from the first phrase of the first sentence

On June 5 the Supreme Court issued two unanimous opinions that are elegantly straightforward. In Town of Chester, New York v. Laroe Estates, Inc., the Court held that an intervenor of right under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 24(a)(2) must meet Article III standing requirements in order to pursue relief (such as a separate money

The Supreme Court’s May 30 opinion in BNSF Railway Co. v. Tyrrell reaffirms that a State’s court system cannot exercise “general” or “all-purpose” personal jurisdiction over a corporation unless the company is incorporated in that State, has its principal place of business in that State, or otherwise is “at home” in that State.  See Daimler

My eyes usually glaze over about halfway through the opening paragraph of any judicial decision involving patent infringement.  But the Supreme Court’s March 21, 2017 opinion in SGA Hygiene Products v. First Quality Baby Products, No. 15-927, kept my attention.  The issue was whether the equitable defense of “laches” can bar a patent infringement suit