Smith International, Inc., Etc. v. Hughes Tool Company

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• federal appellate court applied law of the case doctrine in refusing to review prior 20 decision in the same case issued by appellate court of equal rank
• “The law-of-the-case doctrine is designed to provide finality to judicial decisions. It thus serves the same objective as the ‘newly discovered’ requirement in Rule 60(b)(2).” (citation and quotation marks omitted)
• noting law of the case applies to invalidity determinations

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