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Larry Golden v. United States

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, No. 2025-2128 · judgment March 10, 2026


0%
estimated cert probability
(petition-stage, structural)

Well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.

Questions presented

Does the United States Court of Federal Claims have jurisdiction to adjudicate the following money­ mandating constitutional provisions?

  1. Funding under the Bayh-Dole Act;

  2. Fifth Amendment “Takings” Clause of the United States Constitution;

  3. Reasonable and Entire Compensation under 28 U.S.C. § 1498(a); and,

  4. Government Infringement under 28 U.S.C. § 1498(a) The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has mutually excluded each of the above money-mandating constitutional provisions by group­ ing all the provisions under the sub-category of “patent-infringement-based-takings” claims to unlaw­ fully justify dismissal for “lack of jurisdiction”.

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Larry Golden

For respondent
D. John Sauer
Solicitor General

Case

Conference history

Proceedings

  1. Jul 27 2026
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due September 25, 2026)