federal-vacancies-reform-act
6 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25A478 | Todd Blanche, et al. v. Shira Perlmutter | District of Columbia | 2025-10-27 | Application | executive-branch federal-vacancies-reform-act legislative-branch officer-classification presidential-removal separation-of-powers | Whether the Librarian of Congress and Register of Copyrights are executive or legislative branch officers for purposes of presidential removal authori… | |
| 23-315 | VirnetX Inc. v. Mangrove Partners Master Fund, Ltd., et al. | Federal Circuit | 2023-09-27 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | america-invents-act article-iii commissioner-for-patents director-review federal-vacancies-reform-act inter-partes-review patent-trial-and-appeal-board statutory-time-limit | Whether the Federal Circuit erred in upholding joinder of a party under 35 U.S.C. §315(c), where the joined party did not 'properly file[ ] a petition… |
| 22-925 | Fall Line Patents, LLC v. Unified Patents, LLC, fka Unified Patents, Inc., et al. | Federal Circuit | 2023-03-22 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | acting-official acting-officials agency-delegation federal-vacancies-reform-act inter-partes-review patent-and-trademark-office patent-trial-and-appeal-board presidentially-appointed-senate-confirmed succession-plan | Whether the Commissioner for Patents' exercise of the Director's authority pursuant to an internal agency delegation violated the Federal Vacancies Re… |
| 22-639 | Arthrex, Inc. v. Smith & Nephew, Inc., et al. | Federal Circuit | 2023-01-10 | Denied | Amici (3) | acting-official agency-delegation director-review-authority federal-vacancies-reform-act inter-partes-review patent-and-trademark-office standing succession-plan | Whether the Commissioner for Patents' exercise of the Director's authority pursuant to an internal agency delegation violated the Federal Vacancies Re… |
| 20-7730 | Fendi Brooks v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-04-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appointments-clause attorney-general constitutional-law constitutional-violation federal-vacancies-reform-act prejudice standing statutory-interpretation structural-violation | When colorably alleging a structural, constitutional violation, specifically, that an individual illegally exercised the powers of the office of the A… |
| 19-6034 | Tomas Liriano Castillo v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-09-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appointments-clause attorney-general-succession-act civil-procedure federal-government federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure federal-vacancies-reform-act notice plain-error procedural-forfeiture rule-52b social-media social-media-notice | Can announcements made via the President's personal social media be sufficient to put litigants against the Federal Government on notice so that litig… |