A rarely challenged assertion among appellate court judges, lawyers who engage in appellate work, and scholars who teach and study appellate practice is the following: oral argument is an important, if not key, element in the process of successfully appealing a case. Textbooks on appellate practice routinely declare that lawyers must adequately prepare for oral [...]
Popping your favorite band’s new disc in a work computer can result in security compromise of your employer’s computer network. Playing this disc in your home computer can result in your identity being stolen through financial data stored on your machine’s hard drive and your machine becoming a remotely controlled spam zombie. Consumers worry about [...]
The year 2007 marked the fortieth anniversary of Loving v. Virginia, in which the Supreme Court denounced antimiscegenation law and policy. I argue here that Loving was wrongly decided. I argue against the fundamental right to marriage declared in Loving, and offer alternative interpretations of the harms and rights at issue in the case.
In renouncing [...]
In 1970, Congress believed organized crime was leeching “$7 to $10 billion dollars in profits” from society each year. The problem was so pervasive that, according to one contemporaneous estimate, “[i]f U.S. Steel, American Telephone & Telegraph, General Motors, Standard Oil of New Jersey, General Electric, Ford Motor Co., IBM, Chrysler, and RCA all joined [...]
Diabetes is no longer just a disease; it is now an epidemic. Diabetes, a noninfectious, chronic disease that inhibits the body’s ability to produce and use insulin, affects around twenty-one million Americans. In an effort to study and control the growing number of diabetes cases in America, the New York City Department of Health and [...]
