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Exchanging Information Without Intellectual Property, Michael J. Burstein
Exchanging Information Without Intellectual Property, Michael J. Burstein
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Contracting over information is notoriously difficult. Nearly fifty years ago, Kenneth Arrow articulated a “fundamental paradox” that arises when two parties try to exchange information. To complete such a transaction, the buyer of information must be able to place a value on the information. But once the seller discloses the information, the buyer can take it without paying. The conventional solution to this disclosure paradox is intellectual property. If the information is protected by a patent or a copyright then the seller can disclose the information free in the knowledge that the buyer can be enjoined against making, using, or …
Killing Them With Kindness: Examining "Consumer-Friendly" Arbitration Clauses After At&T Mobility V. Concepcion, Myriam E. Gilles
Killing Them With Kindness: Examining "Consumer-Friendly" Arbitration Clauses After At&T Mobility V. Concepcion, Myriam E. Gilles
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The article focuses on the U.S. Supreme Court case AT&T Mobility LLC v. Concepcion, in which California's "Discover Bank rule" was struck by the Court under the Federal Arbitration Act, which was upheld by the California Supreme Court in the court case Discover Bank v. Superior Court. It provides information that the rule is a judge-made rule which depicts that class action waivers are unforceable in arbitration agreements if such agreements are mentioned in standard form consumer contracts.
Traditional Knowledge, Cultural Expression, And The Siren's Call Of Property, Justin Hughes
Traditional Knowledge, Cultural Expression, And The Siren's Call Of Property, Justin Hughes
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Discussions on international legal norms for the protection of TK/TCE have, in their contemporary form, been ongoing since the late 1990s. In that time, our understanding of key issues for a workable system—subject matter, beneficiaries, rights, or protections—have advanced little, if at all. Indeed, as Michael Brown has observed, “vexing questions of origins and boundaries . . . are commonly swept under the rug in public discussions.” Yet even if all those questions were settled, we also need a clear justification or justifications for a new form of intellectual property on the world stage.
Putting State Courts In The Constitutional Driver's Seat: State Taxpayer Standing After Cuno And Winn, Edward A. Zelinsky
Putting State Courts In The Constitutional Driver's Seat: State Taxpayer Standing After Cuno And Winn, Edward A. Zelinsky
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This article explores the implications of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decisions in DaimlerChrysler Corp. v. Cuno and Arizona Christian School Tuition Organization v. Winn. In Cuno and Winn, the Court held that state taxpayers lacked standing in the federal courts. Because the states have more liberal taxpayer standing rules than do the federal courts, Cuno and Winn will not terminate taxpayers’ constitutional challenges to state taxes and expenditures, but will instead channel such challenges from the federal courts (where taxpayers do not have standing) to the state courts (where they do). Moreover, municipal taxpayer standing in the federal courts, which …
Comments Of The Center For Indian Law & Policy On Washington’S Fish Consumption Rate Technical Support Document, Catherine O’Neill
Comments Of The Center For Indian Law & Policy On Washington’S Fish Consumption Rate Technical Support Document, Catherine O’Neill
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Comments Submitted to the Washington State Department of Ecology.
Same Violence, Same Sex, Different Standard: An Examination Of Same-Sex Domestic Violence And The Use Of Expert Testimony On Battered Woman's Syndrome In Same-Sex Domestic Violence Cases, Leonard Pertnoy
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1971 marked the genesis of the Battered Women's Movement and, since then, remarkable strides have been made to address and combat domestic violence. Today, for example, a myriad of domestic abuse agencies offer an array of services, including: 24-hour hotlines; counseling; safe houses; transitional living; children's services; life skills education; professional training; batterers' intervention; and legal assistance. These strides, however, cannot extirpate two ugly truths: domestic violence still pervades our society, and it afflicts more than those in heterosexual relationships. Anecdotal evidence and a growing body of literature indicate that domestic abuse is not unique to heterosexuals, but occurs in …
Revisiting "Special Needs" Theory Via Airport Searches, Alexander A. Reinert
Revisiting "Special Needs" Theory Via Airport Searches, Alexander A. Reinert
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Controversy has raged since the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) introduced Advanced Imaging Technology, capable of producing detailed images of travelers' bodies, and "enhanced" pat frisks as part of everyday airport travel. In the face of challenges in the courts and in public discourse, the TSA has justified the heightened security measures as a necessary means to prevent terrorist attacks. The purpose of this Essay is to situate the Fourth Amendment implications of the new regime within a broader historical context. Most germane, after the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) introduced sweeping new screening of air travelers in the 1960s and 1970s …
Technology As A Driver Within Agencies - The Internet Change Everything, Michael Herz
Technology As A Driver Within Agencies - The Internet Change Everything, Michael Herz
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Procedure In Eclipse: Group-Based Adjudication In A Post-Conception Era, Myriam E. Gilles
Procedure In Eclipse: Group-Based Adjudication In A Post-Conception Era, Myriam E. Gilles
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Do Religious Tax Exemptions Entangle In Violation Of The Establishment Clause? The Constitutionality Of The Parsonage Allowance Exclusion And The Religious Exemptions Of The Individual Health Care Mandate And The Fica And Self-Employment Taxes, Edward A. Zelinsky
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In Freedom From Religion Foundation v. Geithner, the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) argues that Code Section 107 and the income tax exclusion that section grants to “minister[s] of the gospel” for parsonage allowances violate the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. This case has important implications for a new federal law mandating that individuals maintain “minimum essential” health care coverage for themselves and their dependents. That mandate contains two religious exemptions. One of these exemptions incorporates a pre-existing religious exemption from the federal self-employment tax. These sectarian exemptions raise the same First Amendment issues as does the Code’s exclusion …
Rulemaking As Politics, Thirty Years On, Michael Herz
Rulemaking As Politics, Thirty Years On, Michael Herz
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After Class: Aggregate Litigation In The Wake Of At&T Mobility V Concepcion, Myriam E. Gilles, Gary Friedman
After Class: Aggregate Litigation In The Wake Of At&T Mobility V Concepcion, Myriam E. Gilles, Gary Friedman
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Class actions are on the ropes. Courts in recent years have ramped up the standards governing the certification of damages classes and created new standing requirements for consumer class actions. Most recently, in Wal-Mart v Dukes, the Supreme Court articulated a new and highly restrictive interpretation of the commonality requirement of Rule 23(a). But all of this pales in comparison to the Court's April 2011 decision in AT&T Mobility v Concepcion, broadly validating arbitration provisions containing class action waivers. The precise reach of Concepcion warrants close scrutiny. Our analysis suggests that following Concepcion, some plaintiffs will be able to successfully …
Release As Remedy For Excessive Punishment, Alexander A. Reinert
Release As Remedy For Excessive Punishment, Alexander A. Reinert
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Although the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition on “cruel and unusual” punishment means different things in different contexts, it plainly forecloses state and federal actors from choosing ex ante to impose a punishment that is either disproportionate or inconsistent with minimum standards of decency. In other words, the Eighth Amendment mandates that no punishment be imposed if the only other choice on the table is an unconstitutional punishment. Although this principle can be gleaned from the disparate strands of Eighth Amendment jurisprudence, its remedial consequence has not been fully implemented. In this Article, I propose that providing a remedy of release from …
The Photographer's Copyright - Photograph As Art, Photograph As Database, Justin Hughes
The Photographer's Copyright - Photograph As Art, Photograph As Database, Justin Hughes
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The Least Of These: In Praise Of Professor Tom Holdych’S Integrity And Dedication To Justice For The Disadvantaged, Henry Mcgee
The Least Of These: In Praise Of Professor Tom Holdych’S Integrity And Dedication To Justice For The Disadvantaged, Henry Mcgee
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An obituary for Thomas J. Holdych, contracts and commercial law professor at the Seattle University is presented.
Tribute To Professor Tom Holdych, John Weaver
Tribute To Professor Tom Holdych, John Weaver
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An obituary for Thomas J. Holdych, contracts and commercial law professor at the Seattle University is presented.
Orphan Works As Grist For The Data Mill, Matthew Sag
Orphan Works As Grist For The Data Mill, Matthew Sag
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The phenomenon of library digitization in general, and the digitization of so-called “orphan works” in particular, raises many important copyright law questions. However, as this Article explains, correctly understood, there is no orphan works problem for certain kinds of library digitization.
The distinction between expressive and non-expressive works is already well recognized in copyright law as the gatekeeper to copyright protection—novels are protected by copyright, while telephone books and other uncreative compilations of data are not. The same distinction should generally be made in relation to potential acts of infringement. Preserving the functional force of the idea-expression distinction in the …
Prosecution In 3-D, Kay L. Levine, Ronald F. Wright
Prosecution In 3-D, Kay L. Levine, Ronald F. Wright
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Despite the multidimensional nature of the prosecutor’s work, legal scholars tend to offer a comparatively flat portrait of the profession, providing insight into two dimensions that shape the prosecutor’s performance. Accounts in the first dimension look outward toward external institutions that bear on prosecutors’ case-handling decisions, such as judicial review or the legislative codes that define crimes and punishments. Sketches in the second dimension encourage us to look inward, toward the prosecutor’s individual conscience.
In this Article we add depth to the existing portrait of prosecution by exploring a third dimension: the office structure and the professional identity it helps …
Leaving The Fda Behind: Pharmaceutical Outsourcing And Drug Safety, Chenglin Liu
Leaving The Fda Behind: Pharmaceutical Outsourcing And Drug Safety, Chenglin Liu
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During the 2008 heparin crisis, a tainted blood-thinning drug imported from China caused the deaths of at least eighty people in the United States. However, despite the Food and Drug Administration’s (“FDA”) reactive measures, the American regulatory framework for drug safety remains largely unchanged. Currently, about 80% of active pharmaceutical ingredients, 40% of finished drugs, and 50% of all medical devices used in the United States are imported from over 100 countries. With the growth of product outsourcing, pharmaceutical companies in the United States have stopped manufacturing many essential medicines. Nevertheless, the FDA’s foreign inspections have lagged. It would take …
When Coercion Lacks Care: Competency To Make Medical Treatment Decisions And Parens Patriae Civil Commitments, Dora W. Klein
When Coercion Lacks Care: Competency To Make Medical Treatment Decisions And Parens Patriae Civil Commitments, Dora W. Klein
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The subject of this Article is people who have been civilly committed under a state’s parens patriae authority to care for those who are unable to care for themselves. These are people who, because of a mental illness, are a danger to themselves. Even after they have been determined to be so disabled by their mental illness that they cannot care for themselves, many are nonetheless found to be competent to refuse medical treatment. Competency to make medical treatment decisions generally requires only a capacity to understand a proposed treatment, not an actual or rational understanding of that treatment. This …
Resolving Disputed Elections Through Negotiation, Rishi Batra
Resolving Disputed Elections Through Negotiation, Rishi Batra
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Could a disputed election—one in which the winner is not clear and the result is within the "margin of litigation"—be resolved through a negotiated result? Given the "winner take all" nature of these elections, where one candidate ends up holding the office, and all others do not, it would seem that negotiated solutions and other alternative dispute resolution techniques would have no application. This article explores why self-interested candidates and their associated parties may be interested in a negotiated outcome, what the scope of such an agreement could look like, and how to overcome barriers to such a negotiated result.
What Every Guarantor Should Know About The One-Action Rule And Deficiency Actions, David R. Hague
What Every Guarantor Should Know About The One-Action Rule And Deficiency Actions, David R. Hague
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Personal guarantees are an inherent part of obtaining a business loan. A personal guarantee is an unsecured promise from an individual to make loan payments when the business is not able to do so. In other words, it is simply an added assurance for the lender that the loan will be paid in full. Generally, if the borrower defaults, the lender can file suit against both the borrower and the guarantor for payment. Oftentimes, lenders require another layer of protection, in addition to the personal guarantee: collateral to secure the loan.
Signing a personal guarantee comes with substantial risks, primarily …
Consumer Bankruptcy Policy: Ability To Pay And Catholic Social Teaching, Richard E. Flint
Consumer Bankruptcy Policy: Ability To Pay And Catholic Social Teaching, Richard E. Flint
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An essay is presented on consumer bankruptcy policy in the U.S. It informs about the significant changes in the consumer bankruptcy introduced by the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 including incorporation of an ability-to-pay test as a requirement for getting the benefits of the act. It reviews the Catholic social teaching related to the interrelationship between the dignity of man and his rights and duties to promote justice and the common good.
Mexican Children Of U.S. Citizens: “Viges Prin” And Other Tales Of Challenges To Asserting Acquired U.S. Citizenship, Lee J. Teran
Mexican Children Of U.S. Citizens: “Viges Prin” And Other Tales Of Challenges To Asserting Acquired U.S. Citizenship, Lee J. Teran
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Mexican children with a U.S. parent face both historic and current challenges in acquiring U.S. citizenship. Following changes in U.S. immigration law, the number of individuals removed from the United States has swelled dramatically. This campaign against non-citizens has led to the removal of United States citizens, particularly individuals who were born abroad but claim citizenship through a U.S. citizen parent. Citizens are caught in the middle of conflicting goals between government efforts to adjudicate claims to acquired U.S. citizenship and the focus on crime and national security interests.
Even though many U.S. parents and their children born abroad are …
Regulatory Litigation In The European Union: Does The U.S. Class Action Have A New Analogue?, S. I. Strong
Regulatory Litigation In The European Union: Does The U.S. Class Action Have A New Analogue?, S. I. Strong
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The United States has long embraced the concept of regulatory litigation, whereby individual litigants, often termed “private attorneys general,” are allowed to enforce certain public laws as a matter of institutional design. Although several types of regulatory litigation exist, the U.S. class action is often considered the paradigmatic model for this type of private regulation.
For years, the United States appeared to be the sole proponent of both regulatory litigation and large-scale litigation. However, in February 2012, the European Union dramatically reversed its existing policies toward mass claims resolution when the European Parliament adopted a resolution proposing to create a …
Don’T Blame Crawford Or Bryant: The Confrontation Clause Mess Is All Davis’S Fault, Deborah Ahrens, John Mitchell
Don’T Blame Crawford Or Bryant: The Confrontation Clause Mess Is All Davis’S Fault, Deborah Ahrens, John Mitchell
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In Michigan v. Bryant, a dying victim lying in a parking lot provided responding officers with the identity of the man who shot him. In determining whether the subsequent use of the deceased declarant’s statement at trial violated the Confrontation Clause, the Bryant Court applied the testimonial versus nontestimonial analysis established in the Court’s previous decision, Crawford v. Washington. Holding that testimonial hearsay covered statements involving past events, while nontestimonial statements were directed at an “ongoing emergency,” the Bryant Court applied a multi-factor, totality of the circumstances analysis and found that the deceased declarant’s identification had been directed …
Unbound By Law: Keith Aoki As Our Avatar, Steven W. Bender, Ibrahim J. Gassama
Unbound By Law: Keith Aoki As Our Avatar, Steven W. Bender, Ibrahim J. Gassama
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Introducing the memorial symposium in the Oregon Law Review for the late Professor Keith Aoki, who taught at Oregon from 1993 to 2006, we frame the contributions of invited scholars who address Keith’s impact on the law and legal academy through his prolific work on diverse areas of law — intellectual property, local government, critical geography, Asian American jurisprudence, immigration and critical Latina/o jurisprudence. Collectively, the pieces evidence a scholar armed with an unwavering commitment to critical analysis and social justice, while wielding a vast array of cultural and intellectual influences from his career as an artist. Given Keith’s legacy …
Citizens, United And Citizens United: The Future Of Labor Speech Rights?, Charlotte Garden
Citizens, United And Citizens United: The Future Of Labor Speech Rights?, Charlotte Garden
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Within hours of its announcement, the Supreme Court's decision in Citizens United v. FEC came under attack from progressive groups. Among these groups were some of America's largest labor unions-even though the decision applies equally to unions and for-profit corporations. The reason is clear: there exist both practical and structural impediments that will prevent unions from benefitting from Citizens United to the same extent as corporations. Therefore, Citizens United stands to unleash a torrent of corporate electioneering that could drown out the countervailing voice of organized labor.
This article, however, takes a broader view of Citizens United to explore a …
Role, Identity, And Lawyering: Empowering Professional Responsibility, Natasha Martin
Role, Identity, And Lawyering: Empowering Professional Responsibility, Natasha Martin
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This piece was written for a program held by the American Association of Law Schools Section on Law and Humanities, "Excavating and Integrating Law and Humanities in the Core Curriculum," on January 5, 2012.The Professional Responsibility course has the potential to have the greatest impact on our students' futures in the profession. Paradoxically, however, it remains one of the most undervalued courses in most law school curricula. The complexity of teaching Professional Responsibility is well documented by scholars. Most teachers in this area, novices and veterans alike, acknowledge the challenge of teaching a course whose subject matter and application is …
Preliminary Report On Race And Washington’S Criminal Justice System, Robert S. Chang
Preliminary Report On Race And Washington’S Criminal Justice System, Robert S. Chang
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For this Report, the Research Working Group reviewed evidence on disproportionality in Washington’s criminal justice system and considered whether crime commission rates accounted for this disproportionality. They found that crime commission rates by race and ethnicity are largely unknown and perhaps unknowable, but that some researchers simply take arrest rates as good proxies for underlying commission rates for all crimes. They found that use of arrest rates likely overstates black crime commission rates for several reasons. But even if arrest rates are used as a proxy for underlying crime commission rates, the extent of racial disproportionality is not explained by …