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Sometimes The Silence Can Be Like The Thunder: Access To Pharmaceutical Data At The Fda, Peter Lurie, Allison Zieve
Sometimes The Silence Can Be Like The Thunder: Access To Pharmaceutical Data At The Fda, Peter Lurie, Allison Zieve
Law and Contemporary Problems
Those committed to the free exchange of scientific information have long complained about various restrictions on access to the FDA's pharmaceutical data and the resultant restrictions on open discourse. A review of open-government procedures and litigation at the FDA demonstrates that the need for transparency at the agency extend well beyond the reach of any clinical trial registry.
The Hunt For Sealed Settlement Agreements, Robert Timothy Reagan
The Hunt For Sealed Settlement Agreements, Robert Timothy Reagan
Chicago-Kent Law Review
When a United States senator asked the federal judiciary to look into sealed settlement agreements, the Civil Rules Advisory Committee asked the Federal Judicial Center to undertake a research effort to discover how often settlement agreements are sealed in federal court and under what circumstances. The Center learned that the sealing of settlement agreements in federal court is rare, and typically the only part of the court record kept secret by the sealing of a settlement agreement is the amount of settlement. This article describes how the Center developed its re- search project to address the senator's concerns. The article …
Transparency In International Commercial Arbitration, Catherine A. Rogers
Transparency In International Commercial Arbitration, Catherine A. Rogers
Journal Articles
Scholars have long been making the case for expanding transparency in the international commercial arbitration system, but recently these proposals have taken on a greater sense of urgency and an apparent willingness to forcibly impose transparency reforms on unwilling parties. These new transparency advocates exhort the general public's stakehold in many issues being arbitrated, which they contend necessitates transparency reforms, including compulsory publication of international commercial arbitration awards.
In this symposium essay, I begin by developing a definition of transparency in the adjucatory setting, and conceptually distinguishing from other concepts, like "public access" and "disclosure," which are often improperly treated …
Public Access To Information In Civil Litigation Vs. Litigant's Demand For Privacy: Is The Vanishing Trial An Avoidable Consequence, Dennis J. Drasco
Public Access To Information In Civil Litigation Vs. Litigant's Demand For Privacy: Is The Vanishing Trial An Avoidable Consequence, Dennis J. Drasco
Journal of Dispute Resolution
Recently, the legal and academic communities have been studying the phenomenon of the "vanishing trial." The phenomenon is an observation of the fact that the American court system is experiencing a trend of shrinking trial dockets. At least one scholar has partially attributed the decline in trials to the value placed upon settlement rather than adjudication within our justice system. Those competing values have spawned a debate regarding the secrecy and confidentiality characteristic of settlements versus public access to information in civil litigation. Jurisdictions that have addressed the issue have noted the complexities involved in regard to the factors to …