508 U.S. 602 (1993) Cited 1,543 times 7 Legal Analyses
Holding that withdrawal liability as applied to Concrete Pipe, the employer, did not violate the Fifth Amendment because the imposition of withdrawal liability was clearly rational inasmuch as the employer's liability was based on a proportion of its contributions during its participation in the plan
Holding that notebook entries not witnessed until several months to a year after entry did not render them "incredible or necessarily of little corroborative value" under the circumstances and in view of other corroborating evidence
Holding that a witness's conclusory assertion that the evidence demonstrated "conception, diligence and reduction to practice" did not carry a party's burden on summary judgment
In Heard, our predecessor court held, in the context of an interference contest, that a party who first reduced to practice, but who "fail[ed] to recognize that he had produced a new form [of matter]... is indicative that he never conceived the invention."