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Catherine
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Stetson
Partner, Washington, D.C.
cate.stetson@hoganlovells.com
Cate Stetson is the Director of the firm's Appellate practice group, which in 2010 earned a coveted spot on the National Law Journal’s 2010 "Appellate Hot List." Cate has been recognized as one of the "Fab Fifty" litigators under 45 in the nation by The American Lawyer magazine and was named by the National Law Journal (in 2009) and Washingtonian magazine (in 2006) as one of Washington's "Top 40 Lawyers Under 40." She concentrates her practice on appellate and U.S. Supreme Court litigation. Cate has argued in the Supreme Court and in most federal circuit courts of appeals and has handled dozens of appeals in federal and state appellate courts. Her experience spans appeals presenting questions of administrative law and procedure, antitrust law, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), the False Claims Act (FCA), class certification, civil procedure, and constitutional, contract, copyright, employment, energy, environmental, food and drug, health care, insurance, patent, telecommunications, and tort law.
Before joining the firm, Cate served as a judicial clerk to The Honorable Stanley S. Harris of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia and The Honorable David S. Tatel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE
Handled a merits case in the U.S. Supreme Court on a complex procedural issue for a major firm client.
Successfully defended against a petition for certiorari brought by the United States solicitor general in a multibillion-dollar Medicare matter.
Handled, on behalf of a group of nuclear utilities, one of the lead damages appeals in the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit arising from the federal government's breach of its contract to dispose of utilities' spent nuclear fuel.
On behalf of a computer software and services company, handled a complex Federal Circuit patent infringement appeal involving microprocessor parallel processing architecture.
Argued and won, before a divided eleven-judge court, a high-profile Ninth Circuit en banc case involving issues of land use and religious rights, and subsequently defeated a petition for certiorari.
Successfully sought discretionary review of, argued, and won an important insurance coverage issue for a national client.
Handled a successful appeal in the Eleventh Circuit defending a managed care company against ERISA claims brought by a state attorney general.
Handled a successful appeal in the D.C Circuit involving the treatment of remedies for a pipeline's Natural Gas Act violations.
Handled an appeal in the Seventh Circuit in a complex electric ratemaking matter.
Briefed, argued, and won a major appeal in the Maryland state courts for a national insurance company.
Represented an energy company in a successful D.C. Circuit challenge to an agency's decision placing onerous conditions on a proposed merger.
Handled a successful appeal in the D.C. Circuit on behalf of a national trade association challenging an agency's authority to issue certain historic-preservation regulations.
On behalf of two national business entities, argued an appeal in the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals challenging an agency denial of a petition under the Information Quality Act as a violation of the Administrative Procedure Act.
Argued on behalf of a water filtration company a patent infringement appeal involving a doctrine-of-equivalents issue.
Handled a Second Circuit appeal on behalf of a pharmaceutical company sued by a consumer for allegedly negligently permitting counterfeit versions of its products to enter the prescription drug market.
On behalf of several national corporations and federations of business entities, filed many amicus briefs in the Supreme Court on multiple matters including federal preemption, patent, antitrust, and employment law.
Handled, on behalf of a national nonprofit association, a successful appeal in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit challenging agency regulations that failed to comport with the requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act.
Hogan Lovells Publications
07 July 2010
"The Supreme Court Limits Applicability of Honest-Services Fraud Statute to Bribery and Kickback Schemes." Litigation and White Collar Alert, Hogan Lovells
27 April 2010
"Clinical Trials and Alien Tort Statute Jurisdiction." Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Update, Hogan & Hartson LLP
09 April 2010
"Federal Appeals Court Sides With Comcast In “Net Neutrality” Case, Throws Aspects of Internet Regulation and National Broadband Plan Into Question." U.S. Supreme Court and Appellate Update, Hogan & Hartson LLP
28 January 2010
"Understanding Citizens United." U.S. Supreme Court and Appellate Update, Hogan & Hartson LLP
Published Works
12 October 2009
"Q&A With Hogan & Hartson's Cate Stetson." Law360, Portfolio Media, Inc.
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