The Committee for Justice, joined by Conservatives for Property Rights, filed an amicus brief in support of Supreme Court review of Centripetal Networks v. Cisco, a case in which the Federal Circuit wiped out the largest patent-damages award in U.S. history after a federal trial found that Cisco had engaged in “willful and egregious” infringement of Centripetal’s patents. The award was vacated on a technicality because the trial judge discovered, after completing his draft op

Insofar as the meaning of “the waters of the United States” is ambiguous, the Court should apply the canon of constitutional avoidance. The

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The Committee for Justice, along with The Manhattan Institute and the Cato Institute, filed an amicus brief in support of the Kleins in Klein v. Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industry. The brief was authored by Ilya Shapiro, (counsel of record) of the Manhattan Institute, Trevor Burrus of the Cato Institute and CFJ President Curt Levey. The Kleins are a married couple who owned a bakery in Colorado, until they were fined $135,000 for refusing to violate their religious beliefs b

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The Committee for Justice filed a Supreme Court amicus brief in support of strong copyright protection for Lynn Goldsmith...

Copyright protections serve to vindicate the fundamental civil right that authors have to the fruits of their labors. This is how...