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Nearly fifty years after Federal Communications Commission Chairman Newton Minow notoriously labeled television a "vast wasteland," the FCC has an opportunity to transform the barren terrain of broadcast spectrum into…

Over the past decade, pedicabs---bicycles with chariots attached that carry passengers for a fee---have grown from a quaint novelty to a full-grown industry in the United States. Once a relic…

The question of how to analyze the marriage of a transsexual person has been difficult for courts: if a person could be considered either male or female, who may that…

The Arizona Supreme Court recently issued opinions in two appeals of capital sentences in which the jury found that the murder was especially cruel. Although the two opinions were issued…

The Arizona Supreme Court's interpretation of a law affecting criminal procedure becomes, in theory, the "law of the land" in Arizona. In practice, uniform application of the law can be…

The use of the death penalty---both in number of new death sentences and actual executions---has been steadily decreasing during the past decade. Two phenomena largely explain this decrease: (1) the…

A tying arrangement is a seller's requirement that a customer may purchase its "tying" product only by taking its "tied" product. In a variable proportion tie the purchaser can vary…