In the last issue of IEEE Micro (Jan.-Feb. 2000, pp. 9-12), Micro Law addressed the Kodak, Intel, and Xerox cases, largely from the vantage point of tactics. All of these cases involved a powerful manufacturer’s refusal to sell patented parts, or to license its intellectual property rights, to a rival. Kodak was unsuccessful in the San Francisco federal court of appeals and the US Supreme Court...

Authors’ Note: As this Article went to press, the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Massachusetts v. EPA. By a vote of 5-4, the Court rejected all of the legal arguments we discuss here as potential impediments to addressing the problem of climate change. First, the Court held that petitioners had standing to complain about the EPA’s refusal to regulate greenhouse gases because they met...

OBJECTIVE All 50 states and the District of Columbia have legal mechanisms to try juveniles as adults in criminal court. This study examined the prevalence of psychiatric disorders among youths transferred to adult criminal court and youths processed in the juvenile court. METHODS Participants were a stratified random sample of 1,829 youths, ten to 18 years of age, who were arrested and detai...

also sought the interest they were required to pay on the back taxes. The two actions were combined for consideration by the Supreme Court, New York County. The lower court dismissed the claims of Alpert and Wolfman for back taxes but allowed recovery of the interest paid on the deficient taxes. Further, the court allowed the investors to amend their complaints to assert an additional claim of ...

not an overwhelming burden to the newspaper. Also, because the number of black models used would be entirely discretionary, such requirements would not impose a "quota" on the inclusion of black models. Furthermore, the court held that inclusion of such models would not significantly burden the numerous arbitrary decisions made in every advertisement. Based on the standards above, the court hel...

Court scholars have a voracious appetite for Supreme Court preference measures. Several papers question whether widely-used Martin and Quinn scores provide valid intertemporal measures, calling into question virtually an entire generation of quantitative research on the Court. This paper discusses the challenges of inter-temporal preference estimation and revises, updates and extends Bailey and...