Louis Emory McComas
Judge McComas no longer hears cases. This profile is preserved as a historical record of how they ruled.
How Judge McComas decides
Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
What persuades
In patent-interference appeals, McComas confined review to priority and treated patentability as established by the Patent Office.
“The question in such cases is one of priority, and not of patentability.”
He applied the statutory prohibition on simulations of the Great Seal uniformly, rejecting a claimed vested right based on prior use.
“The law which prohibits the use of such simulations of the Great Seal as we have here passed on is a law for all alike.”
Procedural preferences
McComas expected counsel to state the grounds for an evidentiary exception when preserving it for appellate review.
“This, of course, counsel ought to do.”
He treated a bill of particulars, rather than the indictment itself, as the mechanism for requiring more detail about the government's evidence.
“It is not the office of the indictment to set out the evidence.”
Cautions
McComas rejected constructive notice where a recorded deed of trust did not reveal that a stranger to the record title held an unrecorded grant.
“the recording of the deed of trust from Jones and wife to appellant is not constructive notice to anyone that Jones, then a stranger to the record title, was grantee from Mr. Bidout of the lot described in the bill.”
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
“The judgment below will be affirmed; and it is so ordered.”
“As the appeal must be dismissed, it is now so ordered.”
Caseload & timing
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A historical record
Judge McComas no longer hears cases. This profile stays available as a record of how they ruled. If you're preparing for a matter, start from the court's current bench.