On June 28, 2012 the United States Supreme Court upheld the Patient Rights and Affordable Care Act (ACA), which was signed into law by President Barack Obama in 2010. The individual mandate and the extension of Medicaid eligibility are the primary components of ACA and have drawn a great deal of attention from the media and public. However, little attention has focused on how ACA will affect ve...

In Medtronic, Inc. v. Lohr, the United States Supreme Court, in a five-to-four split, held that the Medical Device Amendments of 1976 did not preempt state tort claims against a pacemaker manufacturer. A careful reading of the factually specific holding of this case suggests that manufacturers of medical devices distributed pursuant to premarket approval requirements and investigational device ...

T HE DECISION rendered by the Supreme Court in Diamond v. Chakrabarty1 allows the new science of biotechnology to come out of the closet and to take its place in the public domain with other scientific achievements that have, for better or for worse, shaped the industrial life of the United States. It is probable that the products which will result from this emerging science will affect each of...

Since the United States Supreme Court ruling in Sell v. U.S. (539 U.S. 166 (2003)), the prediction of which incompetent criminal defendants are likely to be restored has assumed greater importance. A sophisticated mathematical approach shows promise in achieving this goal. But perhaps more importantly, the data used to construct the predictive equations for restorability yielded findings that m...

OF AN ADDRESS BY MR. RAY STANNARD BAKER By its recent decision that in the case of Berea College of Kentucky, the Supreme Court of the United States enters upon the problem of limitation of democracy in America, and it thus upholds, though guardedly and in a limited sense, the position of the South on the Negro question. And the position of the South is one of unbelief in a democracy which incl...

In Sniadach v. Family Finance Corp.' the United States Supreme Court held a Wisconsin statute2 authorizing garnishment of wages without notice and prior hearing to be a denial of due process under the fourteenth amendment. In 1966 Family Finance instituted statutory garnishment proceedings; against Mrs. Sniadach and against her employer as garnishee. Upon presentation of a promissory note, the ...