Nov 13, 2007 | Notes, Number 1, Print Edition, Volume 41
Although the Supreme Court of the United States almost never has trouble counting to five with respect to the ultimate disposition of a case, the Court often stumbles when attempting to agree on the appropriate rationale. If not resolved, this disagreement will lead...
Nov 13, 2007 | Notes, Number 1, Print Edition, Volume 41
There is a crisis in the mental health care system in the United States. Children with mental illnesses endure long waiting lists in order to gain access to short-term, fragmented, and inappropriate services instead of receiving longterm, individualized, and...
Nov 13, 2007 | Notes, Number 1, Print Edition, Volume 41
A patent entitles its owner to exclude others from making, using, offering for sale, selling, or importing a patented invention. A permanent injunction is perhaps a patent owner’s most powerful tool to enforce the right to exclude. For almost a century, patent...
Nov 13, 2007 | Notes, Number 1, Print Edition, Volume 41
Juliana McCormick was the lone female carpenter on a major construction project in Boston that connected two of the city’s major subway lines. While working on the project, McCormick’s co-workers sexually harassed her. When she complained of the harassment to her...
Nov 13, 2007 | Notes, Number 1, Print Edition, Volume 41
On November 17, 1603, at the conclusion of Sir Walter Raleigh’s now famous trial, a jury found Raleigh guilty of treason. Historical observers have recognized the unfairness of the entire proceeding, but it was the denial of Raleigh’s request to face his lone accuser...
Nov 13, 2007 | Notes, Number 1, Print Edition, Volume 41
Within only the past three years, inventors Blake and Jason Krikorian launched the company Sling Media, marketed one of the world’s most critically acclaimed new gadgets, sold hundreds of thousands of these gadgets, and then flipped their company for $380 million. ...