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Barring Immoral Speech in Patent and Copyright
By Ned Snow Abstract In the past three years, the Supreme Court has twice ruled that Congress’s moral bars to trademark protection violate the First Amendment. Those rulings raise a simple question in other areas of intellectual property. Does the First Amendment...
Using Extrinsic Evidence to Excuse a Liability Insurer’s Duty to Defend
By Douglas R. Richmond Abstract Most Americans and American businesses purchase liability insurance to protect against financial loss should they ever be sued. In furnishing this protection, liability insurers contractually promise policyholders that they will defend...
Taxing Employers for Imposing Mandatory Arbitration, Class Action Waiver, and Nondisclosure of Dispute Provisions
By Rebecca N. Morrow Abstract Employers impose coercive dispute resolution terms on their employees more frequently, more broadly, and with greater legal success than ever before. Recent survey data indicates that mandatory employment arbitration provisions bind more...
Recent Student Work
Tweet, Post, Share. . .Get Haled into Court? Calder Minimum Contacts Analysis in Social Media Defamation Cases
By Ellen Smith Yost Abstract Modern communication has been transformed by ubiquitous social media platforms and near-universal connectivity. Any individual, from any location, can now publish speech to thousands or potentially millions of readers, viewers, or...
Off on a Technicality: The Proper Remedy for Improper Venue
By Christopher Thomson Abstract Since its introduction to the public discourse, lawyers have admonished the pejorative phrase, “off on a technicality”—and rightfully so. However, the phrase may rightfully find application to the law’s present treatment of criminal...
Imposing Identity: Why States Should Restrict Infant Intersex Surgery
By Laura Sundin Abstract Babies born with sex characteristics that do not “fit typical binary notions of male or female” are as common as babies born with red hair. These newborns may have one of many types of internal or external abnormalities, coined “intersex”...
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