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Board of Regents of the University of Texas System, et al. v. Boston Scientific Corporation
Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, No. 2018-1700 · judgment September 5, 2019
Before the decision, roughly the 4.1% base rate. The model weighted this up for a state or local-government petitioner, a Federal Circuit decision below, and counsel who has filed here before, and down for a business respondent.
Question presented
The question presented is: Whether a state’s sovereign right to try its causes within its borders when there is personal jurisdiction over the defendant renders unconstitutional a federal patent venue statute applied to force the state sovereign to sue the in-state infringer in a federal court located in another state.
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Michael W. Shore
Shore Chan LLP
For respondent
Matthew McManus Wolf
Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP
Case
Subject area
Judicial Power (estimated from the questions presented, in the Supreme Court Database’s categories)
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Linked docket
19A813
Order
Order list, April 20, 2020 · Certiorari denied
Proceedings
- Apr 20 2020Petition DENIED.
- Apr 01 2020DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/17/2020.
- Mar 26 2020Waiver of right of respondent Boston Scientific Corporation to respond filed.
- Mar 06 2020Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due April 9, 2020)
- Jan 23 2020Application (19A813) granted by The Chief Justice extending the time to file until March 6, 2020.
- Jan 21 2020Application (19A813) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from February 6, 2020 to March 6, 2020, submitted to The Chief Justice.