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Tadhg is a Partner in the firm’s Litigation Department, where he focuses his practice on appellate and complex civil litigation. Tadhg has extensive experience handling appeals in state and federal courts throughout the country.

  • In Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith (No. 21-869), a 7-2 Court held, in a lengthy decision expounding on the “purpose and character” prong of the fair-use test, that the licensing of an iconic Andy Warhol portrait of Prince to a magazine was not protected by the fair-use defense
Read More Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith (No. 21-869), Twitter v. Taamneh (No. 21-1496), Gonzalez v. Google (No. 21-1333), Amgen v. Sanofi (No. 21-757), Ohio Adjutant General’s Department v. Federal Labor Relations Authority (No. 21-1454), Polselli v. Internal Revenue Service (No. 21-1599)
Read More National Pork Producers Council v. Ross (No. 21-468), Percoco v. United States (No. 21-1158), Ciminelli v. United States (No. 21-1170), Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico v. Centro de Periodismo Investigativo, Inc. (No. 22-96), Santos-Zacaria v. Garland (No. 21-1436)

On April 26, 2023, Wiggin and Dana’s Supreme Court Update Authors Tadhg Dooley and David Roth, and Quinnipiac University Law School Professor of Law and SCOTUS blog contributor Stephen G. Gilles looked back at the term’s cases and themes so far, and looked ahead toward the big decisions to come.  

Read More Wiggin and Dana’s Appellate Practice Group Presents: October Term 2022: The Home Stretch

The Court was busy this week, with four new decisions to go along with one from last Friday. No wonder it extended the temporary “administrative stay” placed on the hot-potato mifepristone appeals from Wednesday evening to midnight tonight. As of press time, the Court has not issued a decision, so we’ll keep our focus on the cases that have been decided in the last week:

Read More Axon Enterprise, Inc. v. Federal Trade Commission (No. 21-86), Turkiye Halk Bankasi, A.S. v. United States (No. 21-1450),MOAC Mall Holdings, LLC v. Transform Holdco LLC (No. 21-1270), New York v. New Jersey (No. 156, Orig.), Reed v. Goertz (No. 21-442)