Is the License Still the Product?
The Supreme Court rejected the use of patent law to enforce conditional sales contracts in Impression Products v. Lexmark . The case appears to be just another step in the…
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Attorney Speech Isn’t Free: Why AAJC’s Challenging to Arizona’s Victims’ Bill of Rights Fails
In 1990, Arizona voters passed the Victims’ Bill of Rights. Codified as Article II, § 2.1 of the Arizona Constitution, the bill created 12 enumerated rights designed to safeguard crime…
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We’ve Still Got Feelings: Re-Presenting Pets as Sentient Property
Pets are something special; one only needs to talk to a pet owner for a short time to determine as much. But that special place a pet takes in its…
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“I Don’t Want to Die, But I Am Dying”: Reexamining Physician-Assisted Suicide in a New Age of Substantive Due Process
Whether a person has the right to physician-assisted suicide (“PAS”) has been a contentious topic throughout history. The U.S. Supreme Court, in its 1997 decision Washington v. Glucksberg, delivered a…
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An Empirical Study of Admissions in SEC Settlements
Transparency and accountability were the announced aims of the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) as it unveiled a new policy of requiring some enforcement targets to admit wrongdoing when they…
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Dueling Denominators and the Demise of Lucas
In Murr v. Wisconsin, the Supreme Court outlined a process for ascertaining the denominator in takings cases—an issue that arises both with respect to Penn Central takings claims and Lucas takings claims. The underpinnings…
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