Suffolk Journal of Trial & Appellate Advocacy

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Latest documents

• Criminal law - duress: no defense to murder?
• 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.
• 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.
• Papadopoulos v. Target: finally melting away the century-old natural accumulation standard in Massachusetts.
• Waiting for John Doe: the practical and constitutional implications of DNA indictments.
• Criminal law - Terry searches predicated on nothing more than reasonable suspicion that a suspect is armed and dangerous.

Featured documents

• Beyond the "embryonic stage": Younger v. Harris and "proceedings of substance on the merits" in the context of preliminary injunctive relief.
• Papadopoulos v. Target: finally melting away the century-old natural accumulation standard in Massachusetts.
• Criminal law - duress: no defense to murder?
• The gun-shy commonwealth: self-defense and concealed carry in post-Heller Massachusetts.
• Play through the whistle: the scope of anti-retaliation protection for employee complaints pursuant to ERISA Section 510.
• Swept under the rug: the Brady disclosure obligation in a pre-plea context.
• Thinking outside of the box: why prisons are only part of the solution.
• Raise or lose: appellate discretion and principled decision-making.
• 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.