A pharmaceutical company was not entitled to additional patent term adjustment time because the Patent and Trademark Office correctly determined that any time that could be awarded based on a delay caused by the PTO’s failure to act by certain ...

Tagged with: Intellectual Property Judge T.S. Ellis III U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Where the court acted pursuant to the Formerly Incarcerated Reenter Society Transformed Safety Transitioning Every Person Act, or FIRST STEP Act, passed by Congress in December 2018 to address the mass incarceration of persons sentenced when the Sentencing Guidelines were ...

Tagged with: Criminal Judge Raymond A. Jackson U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Where an officer conducted an illegal search of a defendant’s disabled vehicle and discovered clothing connecting the defendant to a recent robbery, the discovered clothing did not need to be suppressed because the clothing would inevitably have been discovered during ...

Tagged with: Criminal Judge Robert G. Doumar U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Where a credit card customer agreement plainly gave a bank the authority to charge interest to cardholders who had not paid their previous account balance in full and were charged interest on purchases they made during the following billing period, ...

Tagged with: Banking Judge Liam O'Grady U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Where a patrol officer had probable cause to stop a vehicle after observing the commission of multiple traffic infractions, and had probable cause to extend the stop and search the vehicle, as well as its occupants, after smelling marijuana the ...

Tagged with: Criminal Judge Robert G. Doumar U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Where an employee signed an offer letter extended by the company that had acquired the company she had been working for, her agreement to the jury waiver contained within the offer letter was voluntary even though she would have missed ...

Tagged with: Employment Judge T.S. Ellis III U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Although a doctor claimed his former employer and its administrator failed to pay him under his employment contract and also committed fraud, the administrator could not be personally sued for breach of contract and the fraud claims failed as a ...

Tagged with: Contract Judge David J. Novak U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Where the doctors did not adequately inform the patient about the specific risks of the surgery or a reasonable alternative, and failed to perform certain pre-surgery procedures and made errors during the surgery, the plaintiff is entitled to recover $2.2 ...

Tagged with: Judge Leonie Brinkema Medical Malpractice U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Where medical testing demonstrated that a chef was capable of performing work in three alternative occupations with an earning capacity of at least 60% of what he had earned, an insurance company properly ended his disability benefits offered by his ...

Tagged with: Insurance Judge Claude M. Hilton U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Where a school human resources official was terminated, for a history of non-responsiveness and unproductiveness, the school board prevailed in proving her termination was not in retaliation for her complaints. Background Ms. Gooding-Williams raised three claims against FCSB. In Count ...

Tagged with: Employment Discrimination Judge Liam O'Grady U.S. District Court - Eastern District