It eliminates the collateral estoppel effect of a workers' compensation board decision in any other action involving the same subject matter that has a prior determination from an administrative ...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) in a precedential decision today reversed the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware’s dismissal of a patent owner’s ...

In its second decision, the court found to the contrary. In an article in the New York Law Journal, Louis F. Eckert and Michael J. Kozoriz (“Collateral Estoppel of Administrative Decisions on ...

March 20, 2025 - In February 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit clarified when collateral estoppel might apply in a district court case following an invalidity determination ...

On May 30, 2025, the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania handed down a significant decision ...

because of the Federal Circuit’s entrenched and oft-repeated misapplication of the collateral estoppel doctrine ... supported by this Court’s decision in Grogan v.