Case Comments | Suffolk Law Review

Evidence—Admission of Autopsy Reports and Surrogate Testimony of Medical Examiners Does Not Violate Confrontation Clause—United States v. James, 712 F.3d 79 (2d Cir. 2013)

Apr 25, 2014 | Case Comments, Number 2, Print Edition, Volume 47

The Sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution provides criminal defendants with one of the country’s most basic criminal law principles–the right to confront one’s accusers–by prohibiting prosecutors from using a witness’s adverse testimony against the...

Patent Law—First-Sale Doctrine Does Not Extinguish Patentee’s Rights in Self-Replicating Organisms—Bowman v. Monsanto Co., 133 S. Ct. 1761 (2013)

Apr 24, 2014 | Case Comments, Number 2, Print Edition, Volume 47

Through the patent system, inventors are rewarded for their ingenuity with a limited monopoly to practice their inventions at the exclusion of all others for a finite period of time. The grant of a monopoly is not taken lightly in the United States, resulting in a...