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Appointments And Illegal Adjudication: The Aia Through A Constitutional Lens, Gary S. Lawson
Appointments And Illegal Adjudication: The Aia Through A Constitutional Lens, Gary S. Lawson
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In 2011, Congress enacted the America Invents Act (“AIA”), largely in order to provide more effective mechanisms for invalidating, or cancelling, already-issued patents. The statute provides for inter partes review, in which patents, on the request of third parties, can be cancelled by an administrative body, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), subject to deferential judicial review. The constitutionality of this scheme is currently (as of January 9, 2018) before the Supreme Court in Oil States Energy Services, LLC v. Greene’s Energy Group, LLC, but the arguments in that case understandably focus on the consistency of inter partes review …
Criminal Procedure For Juvenile Offenders In Ethiopia, Stanley Z. Fisher
Criminal Procedure For Juvenile Offenders In Ethiopia, Stanley Z. Fisher
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The purpose of this article is to set out, in summary fashion, the law concerning juvenile offenders in Ethiopia. Our focus will be on procedural rather than substantive aspects-insofar as it is possible to separate the two-and particularly upon the enforcement of constitutional guarantees in the process.