- Regulating Innovative Medicine: Fitting Square Pegs in Round HolesBy: Mark Lavender Increasingly, innovative medical products are creating a quandary for the Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) because they often transcend the FDA’s traditional categorical approach to regulating medical products. In a recent ...
- Canning Spam: Consumer Protection or a Lid on Free Speech?By: Grant C. Yang The United States Congress recently passed the first federal legislation to curb the influx of spam. However, the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act (“CAN-SPAM Act”) left ...
- 1984 Is Still Fiction: Electronic Monitoring in the Workplace and U.S. Privacy LawBy: Christopher Pearson Fazekas Electronic monitoring in the workplace has been the subject of relentless public criticism. Privacy advocates argue that technological advancements have given overbearing employers powerful tools to abuse employee dignity in ...
- Crossed Signals in a Wireless World: The Seventh Circuit’s Misapplication of the Complete Preemption DoctrineBy: Matthew J. Kleiman As the number of wireless telephone users continues to proliferate, so does the number of lawsuits against wireless service providers. While consumers seek to utilize various consumer-friendly state law causes ...
- The Trade of Cross-Border Gambling and Betting: The WTO Dispute Between Antigua and the United StatesBy: James D. Thayer The first ecommerce dispute to come before the World Trade Organization (“WTO”) was billed to be one of David and Goliath proportion. The tiny twin-island nation-state of Antigua and Barbuda ...