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Transparency And The Supreme Court—Can Employers Refuse To Disclose How Much They Pay For Health Care?, Nicholas Bagley, Christopher Koller Dec 2015

Transparency And The Supreme Court—Can Employers Refuse To Disclose How Much They Pay For Health Care?, Nicholas Bagley, Christopher Koller

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For decades, the prices that hospitals and physicians charge private insurers have been treated as trade secrets. Even though inflated prices are an enormous reason why health care is so much more expensive in the United States than in other countries, we have only a hazy picture of what those prices actually are.


Intra-Agency Coordination, Jennifer Nou Dec 2015

Intra-Agency Coordination, Jennifer Nou

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Officiating Removal, Leah Litman Dec 2015

Officiating Removal, Leah Litman

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For the last several years, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has quietly attempted to curtail capital defendants' representation in state postconviction proceedings. In 2011, various justices on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court began to call for federally funded community defender organizations to stop representing capital defendants in state postconviction proceedings. The justices argued, among other things, that the organizations' representation of capital defendants constituted impermissible federal interference with state governmental processes and burdened state judicial resources. The court also alleged the community defender organizations were in violation of federal statutes, which only authorized the organizations to assist state prisoners in federal, but …


The Difficulties Of Democratic Mercy, Aziz Huq Dec 2015

The Difficulties Of Democratic Mercy, Aziz Huq

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On Hearsay, Richard A. Posner Dec 2015

On Hearsay, Richard A. Posner

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The Use And Misuse Of Patent Licenses, Jonathan Masur Dec 2015

The Use And Misuse Of Patent Licenses, Jonathan Masur

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Toward A Pigouvian State, Jonathan Masur, Eric A. Posner Dec 2015

Toward A Pigouvian State, Jonathan Masur, Eric A. Posner

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Measuring The Impact Of Plausibility Pleading, Alexander A. Reinert Dec 2015

Measuring The Impact Of Plausibility Pleading, Alexander A. Reinert

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Ashcroft v. Iqbal and its predecessor, Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly, introduced a change to federal pleading standards that had remained essentially static for five decades. Both decisions have occupied the attention of academics, jurists, and practitioners since their announcement. Iqbal alone has, as of this writing, been cited by more than 95,000 judicial opinions, more than 1,400 law review articles, and innumerable briefs and motions. Many scholars have criticized Iqbal and Twombly for altering the meaning of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure outside the traditional procedures contemplated by the Rules Enabling Act. Almost all commentators agree that …


Comments On Proposed Treasury Regulations Defining Terms Relating To Marital Status, Anthony C. Infanti, The American Bar Association Dec 2015

Comments On Proposed Treasury Regulations Defining Terms Relating To Marital Status, Anthony C. Infanti, The American Bar Association

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These comments respond to proposed Treasury Regulations defining terms relating to marital status in the Internal Revenue Code following the Supreme Court's decision in the Windsor and Obergefell cases. The comments applaud the Internal Revenue Service for reading gendered terms relating to marital status in a gender-neutral fashion. For a number of reasons, however, the comments recommend that the final regulations omit the proposed rule for determining an individual’s marital status and, in its place, codify the current deference to local law in determining marital status for federal tax purposes. Most importantly, the comments further recommend that the final regulations …


Encouraging Insurers To Regulate: The Role (If Any) For Tort Law, Kyle D. Logue Dec 2015

Encouraging Insurers To Regulate: The Role (If Any) For Tort Law, Kyle D. Logue

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Insurance companies are financially responsible for a substantial portion of the losses associated with risky activities in the economy. The more insurers can lower the risks posed by their insureds, the more competitively they can price their policies, and the more customers they can attract. Thus, competition forces insurers to be private regulators of risk. To that end, insurers deploy a range of techniques to encourage their insureds to reduce the risks of their insured activities, from charging experience-rated premiums to discounting premium rates for insureds who make specific behavioral changes designed to reduce risk. Somewhat paradoxically, however, tort law …


Eighteen Years On: A Re-Review (Reviewing William N. Eskridge, Jr., The Case For Same-Sex Marriage: From Sexual Liberty To Civilized Commitment (1996)), Richard A. Posner Nov 2015

Eighteen Years On: A Re-Review (Reviewing William N. Eskridge, Jr., The Case For Same-Sex Marriage: From Sexual Liberty To Civilized Commitment (1996)), Richard A. Posner

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Political Powerlessness, Nicholas Stephanopoulos Nov 2015

Political Powerlessness, Nicholas Stephanopoulos

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Does The Constitution Mean What It Says?, David A. Strauss Nov 2015

Does The Constitution Mean What It Says?, David A. Strauss

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Comment On Professor Gluck's "Imperfect Statutes, Imperfect Courts", Richard A. Posner Nov 2015

Comment On Professor Gluck's "Imperfect Statutes, Imperfect Courts", Richard A. Posner

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Declining Controversial Cases: How Marriage Equality Changed The Paradigm, Elena Baylis Nov 2015

Declining Controversial Cases: How Marriage Equality Changed The Paradigm, Elena Baylis

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Until recently, state attorneys general defended their states’ laws as a matter of course. However, one attorney general’s decision not to defend his state’s law in a prominent marriage equality case sparked a cascade of attorney general declinations in other marriage equality cases. Declinations have also increased across a range of states and with respect to several other contentious subjects, including abortion and gun control. This Essay evaluates the causes and implications of this recent trend of state attorneys general abstaining from defending controversial laws on the grounds that those laws are unconstitutional, focusing on the marriage equality cases as …


The New Stock Market: Sense And Nonsense, Merritt B. Fox, Lawrence R. Glosten, Gabriel V. Rauterberg Nov 2015

The New Stock Market: Sense And Nonsense, Merritt B. Fox, Lawrence R. Glosten, Gabriel V. Rauterberg

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How stocks are traded in the United States has been totally transformed. Gone are the dealers on NASDAQ and the specialists at the NYSE. Instead, a company’s stock can now be traded on up to sixty competing venues where a computer matches incoming orders. High-frequency traders (HFTs) post the majority of quotes and are the preponderant source of liquidity in the new market. Many practices associated with the new stock market are highly controversial, as illustrated by the public furor following the publication of Michael Lewis’s book Flash Boys. Critics say that HFTs use their speed in discovering changes in …


What The Marriage Equality Cases Tell Us About Voter Id, Ellen D. Katz Nov 2015

What The Marriage Equality Cases Tell Us About Voter Id, Ellen D. Katz

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Two years ago, United States u. Windsor tossed out the Defense of Marriage Act ("DOMA"). Thereafter, proponents of marriage equality secured dozens of notable victories in the lower courts, a smattering of setbacks, and last June, the victory they sought in Obergefell v. Hodges. During this same period, opponents of electoral restrictions such as voter identification have seen far less sustained success. Decided the day before Windsor, Shelby County v. Holder scrapped a key provision of the Voting Rights Act ("VRA") while making clear that plaintiffs might still challenge disputed voting regulations under Section 2 of the VRA and the …


Wrongs, Rights, And Third Parties, Nicholas Cornell Oct 2015

Wrongs, Rights, And Third Parties, Nicholas Cornell

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In philosophical and legal arguments, it is commonly assumed that a person is wronged only if that person has had a right violated. This assumption is often viewed almost as a necessary conceptual truth: to be wronged is to have one's right violated, and to have a right is to be one who stands to be wronged. I will argue that this assumption is incorrect—that having a right and standing to be wronged are distinct and separable moral phenomena.

My argument begins from cases in which third parties are affected by the violation of someone else's rights. I will introduce …


Perfectionism And Fundamentalism In The Application Of The German Abortion Laws, Mary Anne Case Oct 2015

Perfectionism And Fundamentalism In The Application Of The German Abortion Laws, Mary Anne Case

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The Equality Taboo, David A. Strauss Oct 2015

The Equality Taboo, David A. Strauss

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Regulatory Textualism, Jennifer Nou Oct 2015

Regulatory Textualism, Jennifer Nou

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The View From Inside The Nsa Review Group, Geoffrey R. Stone Oct 2015

The View From Inside The Nsa Review Group, Geoffrey R. Stone

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A Framework For Bailout Regulation, Eric A. Posner, Anthony Casey Oct 2015

A Framework For Bailout Regulation, Eric A. Posner, Anthony Casey

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Arizona And Anti-Reform, Nicholas Stephanopoulos Oct 2015

Arizona And Anti-Reform, Nicholas Stephanopoulos

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Transnational Class Actions In The Shadow Of Preclusion, Zachary D. Clopton Oct 2015

Transnational Class Actions In The Shadow Of Preclusion, Zachary D. Clopton

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How Do Bank Regulators Determine Capital-Adequacy Requirements?, Eric A. Posner Oct 2015

How Do Bank Regulators Determine Capital-Adequacy Requirements?, Eric A. Posner

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Judicial Independence And The Rationing Of Constitutional Remedies, Aziz Huq Oct 2015

Judicial Independence And The Rationing Of Constitutional Remedies, Aziz Huq

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Escaping The American Blot? A Comparative Look At Federalism In Australia And The United States Through The Lens Of Family Law, Emily Buss, William Buss Oct 2015

Escaping The American Blot? A Comparative Look At Federalism In Australia And The United States Through The Lens Of Family Law, Emily Buss, William Buss

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Three Words And The Future Of The Affordable Care Act, Nicholas Bagley Oct 2015

Three Words And The Future Of The Affordable Care Act, Nicholas Bagley

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As an essential part of its effort to achieve near universal coverage, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) extends sizable tax credits to most people who buy insurance on the newly established health care exchanges. Yet several lawsuits have been filed challenging the availability of those tax credits in the thirty-four states that refused to set up their own exchanges. The lawsuits are premised on a strained interpretation of the ACA that, if accepted, would make a hash of other provisions of the statute and undermine its effort to extend coverage to the uninsured. The courts should reject this latest effort …


Potential Of Florida's Effective Assistance Of Counsel Doctrine To Increase Parent Engagement And Promote The Well-Being Of Children, Robert Latham, Robin L. Rosenberg Oct 2015

Potential Of Florida's Effective Assistance Of Counsel Doctrine To Increase Parent Engagement And Promote The Well-Being Of Children, Robert Latham, Robin L. Rosenberg

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