Suffolk Journal of Trial & Appellate Advocacy

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Latest documents

• Antitrust law - Seventh Circuit sees through facade, exposes NCAA scholarship limits to Sherman antitrust scrutiny.
• Beyond the "embryonic stage": Younger v. Harris and "proceedings of substance on the merits" in the context of preliminary injunctive relief.
• Criminal law - duress: no defense to murder?
• Papadopoulos v. Target: finally melting away the century-old natural accumulation standard in Massachusetts.
• Punishing and deterring the unknowing: mandatory treble damages under the Massachusetts Wage Act.
• The doctrine of harmless error in criminal cases in Massachusetts.
• Defining patent eligibility by extrapolating the judicial outlook of software onto biotechnology patents.
• Administrative law - United States entitled to sovereign immunity under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act's civil-liability provision, section 1810.
• Say what? Confusion in the courts over what is the proper standard of review for hearsay rulings.
• Thinking outside of the box: why prisons are only part of the solution.

Featured documents

• Beyond the "embryonic stage": Younger v. Harris and "proceedings of substance on the merits" in the context of preliminary injunctive relief.
• Criminal law - duress: no defense to murder?
• Thinking outside of the box: why prisons are only part of the solution.
• The disadvantaged plaintiff: is it time to revisit the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act?
• Constitutional law - Seventh Circuit denies sovereign immunity defense to counterclaims from appealing state agency - Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System v. Phoenix International Software, Inc., 653 F.3D 448 (7th Cir. 2011).
• Raise or lose: appellate discretion and principled decision-making.
• Evidence of ambiguity: the effect of circuit splits on the interpretation of federal criminal law.
• Papadopoulos v. Target: finally melting away the century-old natural accumulation standard in Massachusetts.
• Punishing and deterring the unknowing: mandatory treble damages under the Massachusetts Wage Act.
• Defining patent eligibility by extrapolating the judicial outlook of software onto biotechnology patents.