8th Amendment
By rejecting the habeas court’s application of medical guidance and by following the Briseno standard, including the nonclinical Briseno factors, the CCA’s decision does not comport with the Eighth Amendment and this Court’s precedents
Exhaustion of Administrative Remedies – IDEA
Exhaustion of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act’s administrative procedures is unnecessary where the gravamen of the plaintiff’s suit is something other than the denial of the IDEA’s core guarantee of a free appropriate public education.
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The supply of a single component of a multicomponent invention for manufacture abroad does not give rise to Sec.271(f)(1) liability.
Certificate of Appealability
5th Circuit exceeded limited scope of certificate of appealability analysis
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Subsection (1) of the bank fraud statute covers schemes to deprive a bank of money in a customer’s deposit account.
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In the case of a multicomponent product, the relevant “article of manufacture” for arriving at a §289 damages award need not be the end product sold to the consumer but may be only a component of that product.
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