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Will Conservative Justices Sound The Death Knell Of State Action? Be Careful For What You Wish, Anne M. Lofaso
Will Conservative Justices Sound The Death Knell Of State Action? Be Careful For What You Wish, Anne M. Lofaso
Law Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
An Analysis Of Mandatory Hookup Law: Cases & Statutes, Jesse Richardson
An Analysis Of Mandatory Hookup Law: Cases & Statutes, Jesse Richardson
Law Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
The King Is Dead, Patrick Mcginley
Union Improvisation: The Parent Of Social Justice, Anne M. Lofaso
Union Improvisation: The Parent Of Social Justice, Anne M. Lofaso
Law Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
The Compromised Right To Education, Joshua Weishart
The Compromised Right To Education, Joshua Weishart
Law Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Aligning Education Rights And Remedies, Joshua Weishart
Aligning Education Rights And Remedies, Joshua Weishart
Law Faculty Scholarship
Over the course of five decades and three waves of litigation, courts have approved remedies under the state constitutional right to education that demand more equitable and adequate funding of public schools. Scholars have urgently called for a 'fourth wave" of litigation seeking remedies beyond money: racial and socioeconomic integration, school choice, universal preschool, and teacher tenure reform, just to name a few. Desperate for progress and to escape the incessant rut of school funding battles, advocates have, in turn, initiated lawsuits seeking a broader range of remedies. If this strategy induces a fourth wave, advocates will encounter a beleaguered …
Three New Metrics For Patent Examiner Activity: Office Actions Per Grant Ratio (Ogr), Office Actions Per Disposal Ratio (Odr), And Grant To Examiner Ratio (Ger), Shine Tu
Law Faculty Scholarship
The current metric for examiner prosecution activity is allowance rate, which is calculated by dividing the total number of allowances by the sum of the allowances and abandonments (allowance rate = total allowance/(total allowances total abandonments)). Importantly, however, allowance rates do not consider an examiner’s pending docket. Specifically, allowance rates do not fully capture if the examiner is simply writing office actions thereby prolonging prosecution or allowing cases. This study rectifies this failure by creating and analyzing a dataset that captures every active examiner’s current docket. Calculating the Office Action per Grant Ratio (OGR = Total # of Office Actions/Total …
Identity-Based Conflicts In Public Policy: The Case Of Hydraulic Fracturing Policy In Pennsylvania, Alison Peck
Identity-Based Conflicts In Public Policy: The Case Of Hydraulic Fracturing Policy In Pennsylvania, Alison Peck
Law Faculty Scholarship
Americans are experiencing a communication crisis in public policy-a crisis that has become especially acute since the November 2016 elections. Research shows that Americans increasingly treat their policy views as constitutive of their identities and separate themselves from other groups based on these identities. New solutions are needed in the lawmaking process to soften participants' hardening of their own identities and negative characterizations of other groups. This Article studies one controversy that has proven to be entrenched, if not yet intractable, in many jurisdictions: hydraulic fracturing. The Article examines advances made by scholars of conflict resolution and peace and conflict …
Revisiting U.S. Labor Law As A Restriction To Works Councils: A Key For U.S. Global Competitiveness, Neil Bucklew, Nicholas Digiovanni Jr., Jeffery D. Houghton, Anne M. Lofaso
Revisiting U.S. Labor Law As A Restriction To Works Councils: A Key For U.S. Global Competitiveness, Neil Bucklew, Nicholas Digiovanni Jr., Jeffery D. Houghton, Anne M. Lofaso
Law Faculty Scholarship
Works councils, institutionalized bodies that facilitate representative communication between an employer and its employees, have expanded on a global scale in recent decades due, in large part, to their ability to increase employee representation, firm productivity and profitability, and social responsiveness. The United States has been notably absent from the global works-councils movement primarily because of an outdated, New Deal-era labor-relations system that generally prohibits these types of worker participation structures. The Authors provide a detailed overview of U.S. labor law in relation to works councils before presenting three contrasting options for increasing worker participation in the United States via …
Rethinking The Americans With Disabilities Act’S Insurance Safe Harbor, Valarie K. Blake
Rethinking The Americans With Disabilities Act’S Insurance Safe Harbor, Valarie K. Blake
Law Faculty Scholarship
Despite the importance of access to healthcare for the disabled, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) has made little inroads in reducing disability-based discrimination by health insurers in the United States. One reason is undoubtedly the ADA’s insurance safe harbor, which explicitly permits insurers to discriminate on the basis of disability in health insurance so long as the differential treatment is supported by actuarial data and is not just intended to disadvantage the disabled. While the safe harbor’s harms are somewhat limited by the advent of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), they are not entirely neutralized. This article argues that …
Engaging Health Insurers In The War On Prescription Painkillers, Valarie K. Blake
Engaging Health Insurers In The War On Prescription Painkillers, Valarie K. Blake
Law Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Water Rights Table, Jesse Richardson, Iris Aloi
Water Rights Table, Jesse Richardson, Iris Aloi
Law Faculty Scholarship
This publication consists of two tables with information regarding water rights among the states. Table 1 summarizes each state’s common law water rights for both surface and percolating ground water, as well as whether the state has statutory rules that modify the common law rule. Table 2 briefly summarizes the type of regulated riparian requirements, the threshold at which the requirements apply, grandfathered water withdrawals and exemptions for those states that have regulated riparian rules.
Connecting Nineteenth-Century Antislavery And Labor Movements With Twenty-First-Century Workers’ Rights, Anne M. Lofaso
Connecting Nineteenth-Century Antislavery And Labor Movements With Twenty-First-Century Workers’ Rights, Anne M. Lofaso
Law Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Justice Scalia's Labor Jurisprudence- Justice Denied, Anne M. Lofaso
Justice Scalia's Labor Jurisprudence- Justice Denied, Anne M. Lofaso
Law Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Remedying Stigma-Driven Health Disparities In Sexual Minorities, Valarie K. Blake
Remedying Stigma-Driven Health Disparities In Sexual Minorities, Valarie K. Blake
Law Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Keeping The Fox From Managing The Henhouse: Why Incumbent Utilities Should Not Be Allowed To Operate The Distribution System Platform, James M. Van Nostrand
Keeping The Fox From Managing The Henhouse: Why Incumbent Utilities Should Not Be Allowed To Operate The Distribution System Platform, James M. Van Nostrand
Law Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Deflategate: What's The Steelworkers Trilogy Got To Do With It?, Anne M. Lofaso
Deflategate: What's The Steelworkers Trilogy Got To Do With It?, Anne M. Lofaso
Law Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Exempt Wells And Agriculture, Jesse Richardson, Iris Aloi
Exempt Wells And Agriculture, Jesse Richardson, Iris Aloi
Law Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Re-Framing Biotechnology Regulation, Alison Peck
Re-Framing Biotechnology Regulation, Alison Peck
Law Faculty Scholarship
Biotechnology is about to spill the banks of federal regulation. New genetic engineering techniques like CRISPR-Cas9 promise revolutionary breakthroughs in medicine, agriculture, and public health-but those techniques would not be regulated under the terms of the Coordinated Framework for Regulation of Biotechnology. This revolutionary moment in biotechnology offers an opportunity to correct the flaws in the framework, which was hastily patched together at the advent of the technology. The framework has never captured all relevant technologies, has never satisfied the public that risk is being effectively managed, and has never been accessible to small companies and publicly-funded labs that increasingly …
Is Consistency The Hobgoblin Of Little Minds? Co-Investment Under Code Section 4941, Elaine Waterhouse Wilson
Is Consistency The Hobgoblin Of Little Minds? Co-Investment Under Code Section 4941, Elaine Waterhouse Wilson
Law Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Why The U.S. Coal Industry And Its Jobs Are Not Coming Back, James M. Van Nostrand
Why The U.S. Coal Industry And Its Jobs Are Not Coming Back, James M. Van Nostrand
Law Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
The Legal Research Plan And The Research Log: An Examination Of The Role Of The Research Plan And Research Log In The Research Process, Caroline L. Osborne
The Legal Research Plan And The Research Log: An Examination Of The Role Of The Research Plan And Research Log In The Research Process, Caroline L. Osborne
Law Faculty Scholarship
This paper reviews the current status of the concept of the legal research plan. It summarizes the basic elements of the legal research plan, reviews the current literature and recommends a design of a plan for use in first year legal research programs and by novice researchers. Also, it considers the use of the research log in the research process.
Who Owns The Water?, Jesse Richardson
Land Tenure And Sustainable Agriculture, Jesse Richardson
Land Tenure And Sustainable Agriculture, Jesse Richardson
Law Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Reconstituting The Right To Education, Joshua Weishart
Reconstituting The Right To Education, Joshua Weishart
Law Faculty Scholarship
Confronting persistent and widening inequality in educational opportunity, advocates have regarded the right to education as a linchpin for reform. In the forty years since the Supreme Court relegated that right to the domain of state constitutional law, its power has surged and faded in litigation challenging state school finance systems. Like so many of the students it is meant to protect, however, the right to education has generally underachieved, in part because those wielding it have not always appreciated its distinctive forms and function.
Deconstructed, the right to education held by children has been formulated doctrinally as both a …
Invalidated Patents And Associated Patent Examiners, Shine Tu
Invalidated Patents And Associated Patent Examiners, Shine Tu
Law Faculty Scholarship
This study attempts to determine whether there are common
characteristics between examiners who issue invalidated patents. This
study uses two new patent databases that code for nearly 1.7 million
patents and approximately one thousand patents that were litigated to
a 'final" judgment between 2010 and 2011. This study finds that
approximately one-third of patents that are litigated to final judgment
are found invalid. Most invalidated patents are found in technology
centers 1600, 2600, and 2700, which correspond to biotechnology and
organic chemistry, communications, and computer science, respectively.
Most patents are invalidated on prior art-type novelty and obviousness
grounds. This study …
Keeping The Lights On During Superstorm Sandy: Climate Change And Adaptation And The Resiliency Benefits Of Distributed Generation, James M. Van Nostrand
Keeping The Lights On During Superstorm Sandy: Climate Change And Adaptation And The Resiliency Benefits Of Distributed Generation, James M. Van Nostrand
Law Faculty Scholarship
Hurricane Sandy (ultimately downgraded to "Superstorm" Sandy by the time it hit the coasts of New York and New Jersey in late October 2012) was the most lethal and destructive hurricane in 2012, resulting in 285 deaths, $68 billion in damages, and 8.5 million utility customers in the eastern United States losing power. Superstorm Sandy provided a wake-up call for electric utilities on the need to adopt a different set of long-term planning tools to improve the resilience of the electric system against anticipated extreme weather events. The experience of Superstorm Sandy provides a case study of the system resiliency …
Transcending Equality Versus Adequacy, Joshua Weishart
Transcending Equality Versus Adequacy, Joshua Weishart
Law Faculty Scholarship
A debate about whether all children are entitled to an "equal" or an "adequate" education has been waged at the forefront of school finance policy for decades. In an era of budget deficits and harsh cuts in public education, I submit that it is time to move on.
Equality of educational opportunity has been thought to require equal spending per pupil or spending adjusted to the needs of differently situated children. Adequacy has been understood to require a level of spending sufficient to satisfy some absolute, rather than relative, educational threshold In practice, however, many courts interpreting their states' constitutional …
Patent Examiners And Litigation Outcomes, Shine Tu
Patent Examiners And Litigation Outcomes, Shine Tu
Law Faculty Scholarship
Conventional wisdom argues that unnecessary litigation of low quality patents hinders innovation, and that the PTO could play a role with its high grant rates. Accordingly, it is important to answer these questions: (1) which patent examiners are issuing litigated patents, (2) are examiners who are "rubber stamping" patents issuing litigated patents at a disproportionately higher rate, and (3) are examiners with less experience issuing more litigated patents? In sum, do patent examiners who issue litigated patents have common characteristics? Intuition would argue that those examiners who issue the most patents (approximately one patent every three business days) would exhibit …
I’M Shocked, Shocked To Find That Politics Is Going On In Here, Anne M. Lofaso
I’M Shocked, Shocked To Find That Politics Is Going On In Here, Anne M. Lofaso
Law Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.