{"id":9521,"date":"2018-01-10T18:41:01","date_gmt":"2018-01-11T00:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=9521"},"modified":"2018-01-10T20:24:08","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T02:24:08","slug":"article-suggestion-equitable-power-of-the-federal-circuit-to-supplement-the-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=9521","title":{"rendered":"Article Suggestion:  Equitable Power of the Federal Circuit to Supplement the Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I sometimes wonder when listening to oral arguments whether judges are straying outside the record. \u00a0If you are looking for a topic to write about, a helpful article might address the authority or lack of authority for the Federal Circuit to rely on extra-record evidence. \u00a0The Sixth Circuit case of <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar_case?case=9663294124323770521&amp;q=%22inland+bulk+transfer+co.%22&amp;hl=en&amp;as_sdt=4003\"><em>Inland Bulk Transfer Co. v. Cummins Engine Co.<\/em>, 332 F. 3d 1007 (6th Cir. 2003)<\/a> suggests that there is a split among the circuits on whether circuit courts of appeal possess equitable power to permit supplementation of the record. \u00a0In my quick search, I did not find any support either way for whether the Federal Circuit has weighed in on this issue. \u00a0 A sub-topic of the article might be whether such extra-record evidence is permitted at all for review of <em>agency<\/em> determinations\u2014e.g., TTAB proceedings\u2014as opposed to district court cases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I sometimes wonder when listening to oral arguments whether judges are straying outside the record. \u00a0If you are looking for a topic to write about, a helpful article might address the authority or lack of authority for the Federal Circuit to rely on extra-record evidence. \u00a0The Sixth Circuit case of Inland Bulk Transfer Co. v. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9521"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9521"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9526,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9521\/revisions\/9526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}