Randall Rader’s sudden resignation from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit last June is playing a cameo role in a petition now before the U.S. Supreme Court on the duty of mediators to disclose conflicts of interest.
The petitioner in the case claims that a court-appointed mediator in a patent dispute failed to disclose “a close, enduring, and personal relationship” he had with a partner at the Fish & Richardson law firm, which represented one side in the mediation. That failure should have resulted in the reversal of a later judgment in the case, the petitioner claims.
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