Amici Urge Justices to Grant Novartis' Petition on CAFC's Approach to Reconstituting Panels
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"[T]he formation of a new panel-through the addition of a new judge whose vote changed the outcome of the appeal-exceeded the court of appeals' authority."- Brief of law professors and civil procedure scholars
A number of amici weighed in this week on Novartis Pharmaceuticals' petition to the U.S. Supreme Court asking the Justices to consider whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) should have been allowed to vacate the decision of a previous three-judge panel composed of different judges, thus invalidating Novartis' patent for a dosing regimen for its multiple sclerosis drug, Gilenya.
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