Monthly Archives: June 2013

Punt

June 25, 2013 at 7:00 am

Yesterday the Supreme Court (finally) decided Fisher v. University of Texas, the case involving a challenge to that school’s affirmative action program. Essentially, the Court punted, kicking the case back to the lower appellate court for reconsideration. Although at first glance the case seems like a meatless decision, the Court’s language will make it much […]

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You Can’t Patent Nature

June 13, 2013 at 3:30 pm

Those of you that had me for LA245 may recall our discussion of the Myriad Genetics case. Myriad is a case about a company that isolated the genes that are markers for breast and ovarian cancer, and obtained patents for those genes. Groups of doctors and patients, with the help of the ACLU, sued the […]

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Strange Bedfellows.

June 4, 2013 at 12:37 pm

Yesterday the Supreme Court issued a decision in Maryland v. King, a case many of my LA245 students wrote about last semester. The decision is unique, not only because of the important Fourth Amendment issue it presented, but also because the decision created a strange divide among Justices resulting in the liberal Justices joining the […]

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