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SMU Law Review

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2013

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Front Matter Jan 2013

Front Matter

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The Paradox Of Legal Equivalents And Scientific Equivalence: Reconciling Patent Law's Doctrine Of Equivalents With The Fda's Bioequivalence Requirement, Janet Freilich Jan 2013

The Paradox Of Legal Equivalents And Scientific Equivalence: Reconciling Patent Law's Doctrine Of Equivalents With The Fda's Bioequivalence Requirement, Janet Freilich

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Contrary to popular perception, generic drugs often enter the market before the patents covering their brand name counterparts have expired by making slight changes to the drug to avoid the brand name patent. These generics face a paradox: the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requires that the generic "not show a significant difference" from the reference product, while patent law requires that the generic have "substantial differences" as compared to the reference product. The generic must be bioequivalent, but not legally equivalent, to the brand name drug. This paradox occurs frequently in the courts but has never been discussed …


Due Process - Fifth Circuit Incorrectly Holds School Lacks Deshaney Special Relationship With Students, Lindsey Hovland Jan 2013

Due Process - Fifth Circuit Incorrectly Holds School Lacks Deshaney Special Relationship With Students, Lindsey Hovland

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On Substantive Due Process And Discretionary Traditionalism, Ronald Turner Jan 2013

On Substantive Due Process And Discretionary Traditionalism, Ronald Turner

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Preface Jan 2013

Preface

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Insurance Law, J. Price Collins, Blake H. Crawford, William H. Craven Jan 2013

Insurance Law, J. Price Collins, Blake H. Crawford, William H. Craven

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Health Care Law, Mary Jean Geroulo Jan 2013

Health Care Law, Mary Jean Geroulo

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The Fourth Amendment-Are Mobile Phones Now Governmental Tracking Devices?, James M. Lucas Jan 2013

The Fourth Amendment-Are Mobile Phones Now Governmental Tracking Devices?, James M. Lucas

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Family Law: Husband And Wife, Joseph W. Mcknight, Shanin Turner Brevig Jan 2013

Family Law: Husband And Wife, Joseph W. Mcknight, Shanin Turner Brevig

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Intellectual Property Law, David L. Mccombs, Phillip B. Philbin, Hamilton C. Simpson Jan 2013

Intellectual Property Law, David L. Mccombs, Phillip B. Philbin, Hamilton C. Simpson

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Oil, Gas, And Mineral Law, Richard F. Brown Jan 2013

Oil, Gas, And Mineral Law, Richard F. Brown

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Taxation, Cynthia M. Ohlenfrost, Sam Megally Jan 2013

Taxation, Cynthia M. Ohlenfrost, Sam Megally

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Toxic Torts And Mass Torts, Brent M. Rosenthal Jan 2013

Toxic Torts And Mass Torts, Brent M. Rosenthal

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Loneliness In The Crowd: Why Nobody Wants Opt-Out Class Members To Assert Offensive Issue Preclusion Against Class Defendants, Antonio Gidi Jan 2013

Loneliness In The Crowd: Why Nobody Wants Opt-Out Class Members To Assert Offensive Issue Preclusion Against Class Defendants, Antonio Gidi

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This Article addresses the ability of members who have opted out of a class action to assert offensive nonmutual issue preclusion in their individual lawsuits against the class defendant. It discusses the reasons why the use of this device, widely available to any nonparty, has been systematically denied to opt-out class members. Specifically, their interests are not protected by the traditional actors in class action litigation: neither the court, the defendant, nor the class counsel represent their concerns and interests. Against the prevailing case law, scholarship, and the American Law Institute's Principles of the Law of Aggregate Litigation, Professor Gidi …


Eminent Domain - Texas Supreme Court Requires Common Carrier Pipeline Companies To Demonstrate Reasonable Expectation Of Future Public, Sam Pinkston Jan 2013

Eminent Domain - Texas Supreme Court Requires Common Carrier Pipeline Companies To Demonstrate Reasonable Expectation Of Future Public, Sam Pinkston

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Front Matter Jan 2013

Front Matter

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Securities Regulation, George Lee Flint Jr. Jan 2013

Securities Regulation, George Lee Flint Jr.

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Sexting: 21st-Century Statutory Rape, John K. Cornwell Jan 2013

Sexting: 21st-Century Statutory Rape, John K. Cornwell

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The "cyberworld" in which we live has fundamentally and irrevocably changed the nature of human interaction. For many, electronic mail, texting, and social networking sites have significantly limited traditional face-to-face interaction. While the benefits of technological progress are self-evident, the ease with which people can share personal information virtually has also produced troubling byproducts. The transmission of sexually provocative images between teenagers, known colloquially as "sexting," is one such example. As suicides and other sexting-related tragedies multiply, jurisdictions coast-to-coast are searching frantically for ways to curb the practice.

Due to the harshness of existing criminal statutes, legislators have favored the …


Technological Intermediaries And Freedom Of The Press, Christina M. Mulligan Jan 2013

Technological Intermediaries And Freedom Of The Press, Christina M. Mulligan

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Recent scholarship has argued that the constitutional guarantee of freedom of the press refers to speech-disseminating technology, such as the printing press, rather than to the institutional press. This Article argues that to protect the free press rights of authors, technological intermediaries such as presses and internet and online service providers must be afforded greater protection than authors for publishing and disseminating sanctionable speech. Unless intermediaries are granted near-complete immunity, the government will be able to censor authors collaterally by threatening to punish intermediaries for authors' speech, forcing intermediaries to restrain what the government cannot directly. Specifically, this Article explores …


Against Neorehabilitation, Jessica M. Eaglin Jan 2013

Against Neorehabilitation, Jessica M. Eaglin

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In the face of severe budget constraints, bipartisan calls for reform, dropping crime rates, and judicial intervention, states are seriously considering and implementing criminal justice reform to manage prison populations for the first time in three decades. Scholars agree that states need a guiding theory to transform emergency and short-term reforms into a long-term shift in policy and practice away from mass incarceration. Numerous scholars advocate for a return to an improved theory of rehabilitation to guide the states in implementing such reform. This return-through neorehabilitation, or the rehabilitation of rehabilitation-centers on the use of evidence-based programming and predictive tools …


Friend Or Foe: The Sixth Amendment Confrontation Clause In Post-Conviction Formal Revocation Proceedings, Esther K. Hong Jan 2013

Friend Or Foe: The Sixth Amendment Confrontation Clause In Post-Conviction Formal Revocation Proceedings, Esther K. Hong

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The Immigrant And Miranda, Anjana Malhotra Jan 2013

The Immigrant And Miranda, Anjana Malhotra

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The recent dramatic convergence of immigration and criminal law is transforming the immigration and criminal justice system. While scholars have begun to examine some of the structural implications of this convergence, this Article breaks new ground by examining judicial responses and specifically the lens of Miranda v. Arizona. This Article examines the divergent and largely aberrant approaches that federal appellate courts have taken to determine whether Miranda warnings and rights apply to custodial inquiries about immigration status that have clear criminal and civil implications. Part I of this Article discusses the distinctions between civil and criminal immigration laws and the …


Front Matter Jan 2013

Front Matter

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Teaching Contract Law: Introducing Students To A Critical Perspective Through Indentured Servitude And Sharecropper Contracts, Gregory S. Crespi Jan 2013

Teaching Contract Law: Introducing Students To A Critical Perspective Through Indentured Servitude And Sharecropper Contracts, Gregory S. Crespi

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An introductory law school course in contract law should at the outset provide students with some general orientation to the rationale for and social consequences of that body of law. The instructor should first present a broad overview of the field that reflects the conventional characterization of contract law as a benign social institution that facilitates private ordering through encouraging general promisee reliance. However, this initial orientation should also expose the students to a contrasting and more critical perspective that calls attention to contract law's potential use as a means of social domination and oppression. The students will then be …


Teaching Contract Law Through Common Law Analysis: The Uci Law Experiment, Gregory S. Crespi Jan 2013

Teaching Contract Law Through Common Law Analysis: The Uci Law Experiment, Gregory S. Crespi

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The new law school at the University of California, Irvine, is attempting to implement an innovative vision of top-tier legal education that emphasizes skills-based and experiential training. As part of that effort, the school has restructured the traditional first-year law school curriculum so that several of these courses each focus on a particular analytical method-specifically, common law analysis, statutory analysis, procedural analysis, constitutional analysis, or international legal analysis-rather than on a particular doctrinal subject matter such as contract law or torts. There are no doubt some pedagogical advantages to taking such an analytical methods-oriented instructional approach. However, I have some …


Compelled Commercial Disclosures - The D.C. Circuit Holds Graphic Warning Requirements For Tobacco Products Unconstitutional, Phillip R. Sanders Jan 2013

Compelled Commercial Disclosures - The D.C. Circuit Holds Graphic Warning Requirements For Tobacco Products Unconstitutional, Phillip R. Sanders

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First Amendment - Seventh Circuit Expands Establishment Clause In High School Graduation Case, Renee M. Hunter Jan 2013

First Amendment - Seventh Circuit Expands Establishment Clause In High School Graduation Case, Renee M. Hunter

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Copyright Law - A Challenge To The Ninth Circuit's Fight Applying Laches In Raging Bull Suit, Jacqui Bogucki Jan 2013

Copyright Law - A Challenge To The Ninth Circuit's Fight Applying Laches In Raging Bull Suit, Jacqui Bogucki

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Synthetic Drugs - Emergence, Legislation, And The Criminal And Legal Aftermath Of Broad Regulation, Zunny Losoya Jan 2013

Synthetic Drugs - Emergence, Legislation, And The Criminal And Legal Aftermath Of Broad Regulation, Zunny Losoya

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The Unbearable Whiteness Of Abc: The First Amendment, Diversity, And Reality Television In The Wake Of Claybrooks V. Abc, Sarah Honeycutt Jan 2013

The Unbearable Whiteness Of Abc: The First Amendment, Diversity, And Reality Television In The Wake Of Claybrooks V. Abc, Sarah Honeycutt

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