Yakima Herald-Republic articles from November 2002

Yakima Herald-Republic archives from November 2002

Reinventing the double Helix: a novel and nonobvious reconceptualization of the biotechnology patent.
November 1, 2002... INTRODUCTION A quiet revolution has taken place during the past two decades in the federal law governing property rights in the biological and chemical constituents of living organisms. The Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) now routinely...

Law, medicine, and trust.(Therapeutic jurisprudence's application to health care law)
November 1, 2002... INTRODUCTION: A THERAPEUTIC APPROACH TO HEALTH CARE LAW A. In Search of a Uniting Theme Scholars have long noted that the field of health care law lacks cohesion. They speak in terms of the "pathologies" of health law, or its...

Out of sight, but not out of mind: how Executive Order 13,233 expands executive privilege while simultaneously preventing access to presidential records.
November 1, 2002... Behind closed doors, there is no guarantee that the most basic of individual freedoms will be preserved. And as we enter the 21st Century, the great fear we have for our democracy is the enveloping culture of government secrecy and the...

Commerce Clause questions after Morrison: some observations on the new formalism and the new realism.
November 1, 2002... INTRODUCTION In 1994, when Solicitor General Drew Days, III stood before the Supreme Court to argue United States v. Lopez, (1) he could truthfully characterize as an "extraordinary step" the lower court's decision to invalidate a federal...

Crippled Justice: The History of Modern Disability Policy in the Workplace.(Book Review)
November 1, 2002... CRIPPLED JUSTICE: THE HISTORY OF MODERN DISABILITY POLICY IN THE WORKPLACE. By Ruth O'Brien. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2001. 288 pp. + xiv. INTRODUCTION After only twelve days in office, President George W. Bush...