After receiving verdicts of not guilty by reason of insanity, John McGee and Ronald Manlen were committed to Michigan mental hospitals. The center for forensic psychiatry later determined that McGee and Manlen were “no longer mentally ill and dangerous” and released them. Shortly after being released, McGee kicked his wife to death and Manlen raped two women. The public outcry that followed the...

As a follow-up to the May/June Micro Law column on abuse of the standard-setting process, I now turn to Rambus’ version of the previously summarized Secret Squirrel saga. A jury in Richmond, Virginia, found that with the aid of a secret informant (designated Secret Squirrel) inside the Joint Electronic Devices Engineering Council (JEDEC) standard-setting group, Rambus engaged in industrialgrade...

In many scientific, economic and policy-related problems, pieces of information from different sources have to be aggregated. Typically, the sources are not equally competent. This raises the question of how the relative weights and competences should be related to arrive at an optimal final verdict. Our paper addresses this question under a more realistic perspective of measuring the practical...

E-law module is the web application which works mainly as the set of information retrieval and extraction tools dedicated for the lawyers. E-law module consists of following tools: (1) document search engine; (2) context oriented search engine plugin; (3) legal phrase oriented machine translation; (4) document metatagger; (5) verdict finder. Machine translation, document meta-tagger and verdict...