Supreme Court affirms the right of secured creditors to credit bid in a sale under a “cramdown” plan of reorganization *

USA - May 31 2012
On May 29, 2012, in RadLAX Gateway Hotel, LLC v. Amalgamated Bank, the United States Supreme Court unanimously held that a debtor may not confirm a chapter 11 plan of reorganization providing for the “free and clear” sale of a secured creditor’s collateral, without permitting the secured creditor to credit bid at the sale.

Co-authors: Stephen Moeller-Sally, Mark I. Bane , D. Ross Martin, Keith H. Wofford.

Supreme Court holds warrantless GPS tracking violated constitutional rights *

USA - January 23 2012
The United States Supreme Court today released its decision in United States v. Jones, No. 10-1259, the most important Fourth Amendment case in a decade.

Co-authors: Michael Li-Ming Wong .

Sorrell v. IMS Health Inc. — Supreme Court strikes down law restricting pharmaceutical manufacturers’ speech *

USA - June 24 2011
On Thursday, the Supreme Court issued its decision in Sorrell v. IMS Health Inc., a case testing the constitutional limits of governmental restrictions on the speech of pharmaceutical manufacturers.

Co-authors: Brien T. O'Connor , Alan Bennett , Joan McPhee , Stephen A. Warnke, Aaron Katz.

Supreme Court agrees to decide whether universities’ ownership rights in federally funded inventions can be terminated unilaterally by individual inventors *

USA - November 1 2010
The Supreme Court today agreed to decide a question of patent law with profound effects on the national economy - the disposition of patent rights under the Bayh-Dole Act in inventions arising from federally funded research at universities.

Co-authors: James R. Myers.