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CaseNo: BIVT100488, CourtCode: SM, CourtName: IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES, Plaintiff: BIOMET INC, State: DC Washington D.C., UniqueCaseRef: LCD>BIVT100488, Damages, Federation, Punitive Damages, Award, Compensatory Damages, Federal Circuit, Bmw, Petitioner, Mandate Rule, Appeals, Pet, Harm, App, Txo, Justify, Potential Harm, Evidence, United States, Amicus, Authorities, Review, Chamber, Amount, Remand, Cooper, Contingent, Guideposts, District Court, Substantial Change , ContentID: 120248135

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1 2000-05 AMICUS BRIEF
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1 . AMICUS BRIEF

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DISTRICT COURT
SUBSTANTIAL CHANGE
                              No. 01-172
 In the Supreme Court of the United States

                             BIOMET, INC.,
                                                                 Petitioner,
                                  v.
                        DR. RAYMOND G. TRONZO,
                                                                Respondent.


             On Petition for a Writ of Certiorari to the
      United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

  BRIEF FOR THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF
      THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS AMICUS
            CURIAE IN SUPPORT OF PETITIONER


ROBIN S. CONRAD                    EVAN M. TAGER
     National Chamber Litigation   Counsel of Record
     Center, Inc.                            Mayer, Brown & Platt
     1615 H Street, N.W.                     1909 K Street, N.W.
     Washington, D.C. 20062                  Washington, D.C. 20006
     (202) 463-5337                          (202) 263-3240

















           TABLE OF CONTENTS
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      TABLE OF AUTHORITIESii
      INTEREST OF THE AMICUS CURIAE1
      ARGUMENT1
      CONCLUSION8

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  • United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
  • BRIEF FOR THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS AMICUS CURIAE IN SUPPORT
  • App.
  • Caterpillar Inc. v. Lewis, 519 U.S. 61.......................2 Cooper Indus., Inc. v.
  • TABLE OF AUTHORITIES - Continued
  • is the nation's largest federation of business companies and associations, with underlying
  • The Chamber's members have a strong interest in this case both because the Federal Circuit's excessiveness.1
  • Petitioner is going to be subjected to this massive confiscation of property not because "a re from the mandate rule.
  • Review is warranted both to ensure that the lower federal courts do not lose sight of their
  • Beazer, 440 U.S. 568, 570-571 (certiorari granted because of "he departure by [the district
  • Confronted with stringent limits on the length of its appellate brief and an extraordinarily e punitive damages should fall.
  • See Pet.
  • we by no means intend to suggest that the existence of a low ratio necessarily immunizes a
  • Our point is simply that petitioner should not be saddled with a manifestly unconstitutional
  • hold the preservation of contingent arguments to have been necessary, petitioner did not gally liable and the reduced amount of compensatory damages.
  • the Federal Circuit cited no authority for the proposition that contingent issues must be
  • The Federal Circuit acknowledged, as it had to, that the mandate rule is not "an unassailable
  • As its principal justification for refusing to regard a 99.99% reduction of the compensatory
  • The Federal Circuit's reliance on "potential harm" is utterly misplaced and cannot be squared
  • this Court consistently has used the term "potential harm" to refer to harm that was intended
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