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661 F.3d 243 (2011) Richard GARRIOTT, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. NCSOFT CORPORATION, Defendant-Appellant. No. 10-50939. United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit. October 21, 2011. *244 Stephen Edward Fox, David Brandon Conrad, Kelly Dean Hine (argued), Fish & Richardson, P.C., Dallas, TX, William Thomas Jacks, Fish & Ric

PATRICK E. HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judge: This dispute arises from a successful plugging and abandonment operation of three offshore oil and gas wells in the Mississippi Canyon area of the Gulf of Mexico. Apache Deepwater, LLC performed the operation and seeks payment from its non-operator partner, W&T Offshore, Inc. A jury awarded $43.2 million to Apache for W&T's breach of the J

EMILIO M. GARZA, Circuit Judge: The original opinion in this case was issued by the panel on December 6, 2012. No member of the panel nor judge in regular active service of the court having requested that the court be polled on rehearing en banc (Fed. R.App. P. 35 and 5th CiR. R. 35), the petition for rehearing en banc is DENIED. Because this panel has r

PATRICK E. HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judge: This case sits at the unusual intersection of federal subject-matter jurisdiction and a district court's exercise of its discretion to dismiss a partnership as a dispensable party when all its partners were parties in the case. We conclude that the district court had subject-matter jurisdiction to try the case and did not err in dismissing a nondiverse partnership as dispensable, nor err in it

Case: 12-10525 Document: 00512076232 Page: 1 Date Filed: 12/06/2012 IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit FILED December 6, 2012 No. 12-10525 Lyl

669 F.3d 619 (2012) UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Oscar CANTU-RAMIREZ, also known as Cowboy, also known as Carin; Lauro Abel Grimaldo, Defendants-Appellants. No. 10-40279. United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit. February 6, 2012. *621 Terri Lynn Hagan (argued), Heather Harris Rattan, Asst. U.S. Attys., P

Case: 25-1045 Document: 78 Page: 1 Filed: 06/04/2026 United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ______________________ OLLNOVA TECHNOLOGIES LTD., Plaintiff-Appellant v. ECOBEE TECHNOLOGIES ULC, DBA ECOBEE, Defendant-Cross-Appellant ______________________ 2025-1045, 2025-1046 ______________________ Appeals from the United

PATRICK E. HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judge: The trial in this case offers two narratives. One of a hardworking man who, angered by failures of guardrails installed across the United States—with sometimes devastating consequences—persuaded a Texas jury of a concealed cause of those failures. The other of the inventive genius of professors at Texas A&M’s Trans

REYNA, Circuit Judge. These appeals come before us after two trials in the district court — a first trial resolving the claims of patent infringement and damages, and a second trial ordered by the district court to retry the damages issues. The parties raise various issues relating to the proper legal framework for evaluating reasonable royalty damages in the patent infringement c