By: Andrew Glenny Pharmaceutical patents are an important part generating innovation in the pharmaceutical technology. It costs a great deal of money and investments to develop a new drug. The Constitution allows Congress to allow inventors to have a monopoly on their inventions for a limited period of time. This provision of the Constitution… Read More Pharmaceuticals, What’s the Cost?
By: Derek M. Ciulla Until this month, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and many local police departments have been using a surveillance device that can track you through your cell phone and search your cell phone without a warrant. Moreover, without you even knowing about it. The device is a cell site simulator… Read More Federal Law Enforcement Finally Required to Obtain a Warrant to Track Cell Phones
By: Philip Kachajian It is no understatement to suggest that phone-based taxi service apps such as Uber and Lyft have fundamentally altered what for so long had been an industry completely dominated by traditional taxi companies. As with so many other fields, the world of taxi’s, courtesy cars, hotel and airport shuttles, and limos, once… Read More Car Trouble: Taxi Service App “Lyft” Penalized for Forcing Users to Accept Unsolicited Ads
By: Chris Gavrielidis Cars of the future have been imagined in many creative ways. From the automated cars of iRobot that travel 200 miles per hour, to their sleek design in Minority Report as they ride on vertical surfaces, we have seen them in various shapes and sizes. But did we foresee this technology originating… Read More Hi-Tech Cars and Torts: Losing Control of a Three-Ton Joystick
By: Angelica Diaz Within the last year, the amount of news coverage on police brutality has increased tremendously. Unfortunately, it has become a part of society to see social media postings regarding different types of brutality and unlawful escalation of the use of force by law enforcement officials while on duty. As a result of… Read More Police Body Cameras and the Violation of Privacy in One’s Home
By: Madeline Lally The Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”) allows the general public to access previously undisclosed records under the control of the federal government. FOIA requests carry a presumption of disclosure and the government bears the burden to substantiate why requested information may not be released. Public bodies are required to disclose all… Read More Freedom of Information Act and E-discovery
By: Madeline Lally After ridding itself of its “double tax loophole,” Ireland will now have to fight for its life to remain an attractive location for large technology companies specializing in intellectual property, such as Apple and Google. Ireland currently is home to what is called the “Double Irish Tax Loophole” whereby large corporations,… Read More Closing the Loophole
By: Samantha Keefe Mars One is a Dutch non-profit (or so they state) organization that claims they will be sending four people on a one-way trip to Mars. Every two years after the initial launch, the organization will continue to send four people up, with the goal of starting a new colony on Mars. The… Read More Mars One—a Trip to Mars or a Trip to the Courtroom?
By: Emily O’Toole There have been disturbing legal events in the state of Indiana regarding the equality of all citizens. Governor Mike Pence signed a “Religious Freedom Restoration Act”(https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2015/bills/senate/568#document-f6915f8f) into law. This bill purports to expand the religious freedoms of businesses. The Bill infringes on the rights of a state or local government to substantially burden… Read More Big Tech Companies Use their Position to Stand-up for Gay Rights in America
Written By: Cherie Ching The possibility of using Microsoft’s HoloLens to enhance a courtroom presentation could lead to faster transferability of exhibition files, more efficient trial procedures, and engaging jury experiences if it is able to survive the Rules of Evidence test. Like any piece of evidence admitted to a trial, HoloLens must establish… Read More The Capacity of ‘HoloLens’ to Create a ‘HoloTrial’
POSTED BY Linda Vo In a recent letter to its shareholders, Netflix addressed its growing concerns with Popcorn Time, a popular app that provides online streaming of pirated movies and television shows. Available across every major computer and smartphone operating system platform, the app is so popular that it is often called “the Netflix for… Read More Popcorn Time Pirated Movies App as Threat to Netflix
POSTED BY Linda Vo Just days after reaching a $105 million settlement with the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) and other U.S. government agencies over mobile cramming, AT&T once again finds itself in court with the FTC. On October 28, 2014, the FTC filed a federal court complaint against AT&T, charging the telecommunications giant for data… Read More FTC Sues AT&T for “Data Throttling”
POSTED BY Samantha Keefe Over the past four months, the nation has had their eyes on Ferguson, Missouri. In early August of this year, an 18 year old black male, Michael Brown, was shot dead by a white police officer. On November 24th, a grand jury decided not to indict the police officer,… Read More Police Body Cameras: Could They Prevent Violence?
POSTED BY Emily O’Toole Article I Section 8 of The United States Constitution provides Congress with the authority to regulate and coin money in Clause 5. Clause 6 also grants Congress the authority to punish those that create counterfeit money. The ability to punish counterfeiters, however, is contingent on the ability to catch counterfeiters. … Read More ¬Could The Invention Of A New Printer Ink Made With Colloidal Photonic Crystals Be The Latest Defense To The Age Old Battle Against Counterfeit Currency?
By: Linda Vo Over the past few years, technological advancements have allowed people to streamline just about every aspect of their lives in one convenient place: their smartphones. Two weeks ago, Apple Pay was launched, enabling consumers to now securely store their credit card information on the new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus devices… Read More CurrentC’s Data Breach Results in Major Setback for the Apple Pay Rival
POSTED BY Veronica LaClair On Friday, October 17, 2014, the newest breaking news heading scrolled across my television – “Report: ISIS has three warplanes.” Like most news headlines, which are short and broad, this headline captured my interest and had me staying tuned-in to learn more. Like any organization, the terrorist group ISIS is… Read More ISIS Crisis Takes to the Sky
POSTED BY Natasha Meserve The Drug Enforcement Agency has used a fake Facebook profile to gather information for a criminal drug investigation and is currently being sued by a woman for using pictures taken from her cellphone. This past week, the Drug Enforcement Agency (“DEA”) used a woman’s cellphone pictures to create a fake Facebook… Read More First Amendment Issues In DEA-Use Of Fake Facebook Profile
POSTED BY Alexandra Lowe In 1994, Police Chief William Bratton introduced computer-driven performance management to policing. This data-focused management model, originally known as CompStat, is credited with introducing the concept of “predictive policing” to law enforcement and crime fighting. CompStat and other similar programs synthesize close to real-time crime data in order to identify criminal… Read More Big Brother?
POSTED BY Sardiaa Leney Recently, whistleblowers in ‘qui tam’ actions have claimed that medical devices and drugs with defects in manufacturing or compliance with applicable regulations supplied into government-funded health care programs are actionable under the Federal False Claims Act (FCA). A recent judgment in a long-running medical device suit in the District of Massachusetts… Read More How Much Trouble Can You Get Into For Selling Goods to the Government?
POSTED BY Natasha Meserve Recently, Google, the famous search engine, has dealt with international issues, notably with its Autocomplete feature. This serious issue might potentially hold Google accountable for libel lawsuits regarding certain companies and people. More specifically, ones that are searched for and have certain potentially libelous words associated with its name. Google’s Autocomplete… Read More Potential Libel Action Against Google For The Autocomplete Feature
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