A Cert Grant on Veterans' Benefits and Equitable Tolling
A Cert Grant on Veterans' Benefits and Equitable Tolling
As Federal Circuitry readers know, the Supreme Court in recent years has granted review in many patent cases from the Federal Circuit—like last Term’s big decision in Arthrex. But the Supreme Court also takes up cases from the Federal Circuit’s non-patent docket. Yesterday the Supreme Court granted certiorari in Arellano v. McDonough, a veterans’ benefits case about when statutory filing deadlines can be “equitably tolled”—that is, extended due to some unusual circumstance that prevented a litigant from making a timely filing. Questions on the availability of equitable tolling arise in a wide variety of statutory contexts. The Supreme Court’s eventual decision in Arellano thus may have broader implications beyond the veterans’ benefits area.
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