The PTAB’s recent decision in TicketNetwork, Inc. v. CEATS, Inc. reminds litigants that collateral estoppel only applies when there is an identity of issues. In the decision, the PTAB refused to find ...

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has held that arbitrators’ decisions that an arbitration clause is unenforceable may not be used to ...

The doctrine of collateral estoppel can assist parties facing costly litigation. Robert Berezin and Carmen Bremer consider how it can be invoked in patent disputes Collateral estoppel can be used to ...

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A discussion of Section 118-A of the Worker's Compensation law which went into effect on Dec. 30, 2022 and eliminates the collateral estoppel effect of a Workers' Compensation board decision in any ...

The Federal Circuit recently issued an opinion vacating the District of Delaware’s grant of summary judgment of non-infringement based on collateral estoppel. Specifically, the Federal Circuit held ...

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 ...

Florida's Third District Court of Appeal ruled on Wednesday in the first case in which it applied a new precedent on the application of offensive collateral estoppel that will affect insurance ...

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 ...