Feb 25, 2013 | Online Edition
On Friday, April 6, 2007, Howard Cotterman and his wife, Maureen, drove across the border from Mexico, seeking reentry to the United States at the Lukeville, Arizona Port of Entry (POE).[ref]United States v. Cotterman, 637 F.3d 1068, 1070-71 (9th Cir. 2011), reh’g...
Feb 25, 2013 | Online Edition
In Lopez v. Commonwealth,[ref]978 N.E.2d 67 (Mass. 2012).[/ref] police officers sued the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the Division of Human Resources (HRD), alleging HRD engaged in racial discrimination by creating and administering a multiple-choice examination...
Feb 25, 2013 | Online Edition
“We saw that if we paid off this patent holder, we’d have to pay off every patent holder this same amount. This is the first case we took all the way to trial. And now, nobody has to pay Soverain jack squat for these patents.”[ref]Joe Mullin, How Newegg Crushed the...
Feb 25, 2013 | Archives, Online Edition
Supreme Court cases reflect changing times. Suffolk University Law Review began in 1967, the year of Loving v. Virginia,[ref]388 U.S. 1 (1967).[/ref] a civil rights case that struck down state laws barring interracial marriage. In 2013, the Court has before it cases...
Feb 25, 2013 | Online Edition
A quarter century ago, the Lexington, Kentucky Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center pioneered a risk management program now known as “disclosure and offer.” Its guiding principal was that patients injured by malpractice should be told about the incident and “made...