By Julia Stoyanovich (Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Drexel University) and Ellen P. Goodman (Professor, Rutgers Law School). This post is derived from their recent Freedom to Tinker post. ProPublica’s story on “machine bias” in an algorithm used for sentencing defendants amplified calls to make algorithms more transparent and accountable. It has never been more … Continue reading Revealing Algorithmic Rankers…
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Pleading Standards: The Hidden Threat to Actavis
In FTC v. Actavis, the Supreme Court issued one of the most important antitrust decisions in the modern era. It held that a brand drug company’s payment to a generic firm to settle patent litigation and delay entering the market could violate the antitrust laws. Since the decision, courts have analyzed several issues, including causation, … Continue reading Pleading Standards: The Hidden Threat to Actavis…
Why a ‘Large and Unjustified’ Payment Threshold is Not Consistent with Actavis
FTC v. Actavis was a landmark antitrust decision. In rejecting the “scope of the patent” test that had immunized settlements by which brand-name drug firms pay generic companies to delay entering the market (“exclusion payment settlements”), the Supreme Court made clear that such agreements “tend to have significant adverse effects on competition” and could violate … Continue reading Why a ‘Large and Unjustified’ Payment Threshold is Not Consistent with Actavis…
The Big (Patent) Short
WINNER OF THE FIRST ANNUAL LASTOWKA SHORT-FORM WRITING COMPETITION IN INFORMATION LAW Carl J. Minniti III ‘17 You cannot manipulate the stock market on purpose. For example, in a classic “pump and dump” scheme, market manipulators use misleading tactics in order to inflate stock prices by convincing unwitting investors to buy. Then, once the stock price reaches … Continue reading The Big (Patent) Short…
Public Unions, Product Labels, and the Abuse of First Amendment ‘Rights’
The case poses the question of whether union collective bargaining involves the kind of expressive speech that employees should not have to support. It’s long been the law (since the Abood case) that employees have a First Amendment right not to be compelled to support union political speech. Collective bargaining is something different. So the … Continue reading Public Unions, Product Labels, and the Abuse of First Amendment ‘Rights’…