But as companies continue their attempts at personalized medicine, the courts will remain rather busy. The Myriad case itself is probably not over. Critics make three main arguments against gene patents: a gene is a product of nature, so it may not be patented; gene patents suppress innovation...
3——But as companies continue their attempts at personalised medicine, the courts will remain rather busy. The Myriad case itself is probably not over. Critics make three main arguments against gene patents: a gene is a product of nature, so it may not be patented; gene patents suppress inn...
Myriad Genetics could indeed hold patents to two genes that help forecast a woman’sriskofbreastcancer.Thechiefexecutive ofMyriad,acompanyinUtah,saidtherulingwas a blessing to firms and patientsalike.But as companies continue their attempts at personalized medicine, the courts will remain rather busy...
If a man is not securely situated, and feels that children fathered by him will be worse off than he is, he will not marry; or if he does marry, he will be afraid of begetting too many children, who would complete his financial ruin and live more poorly than their father.…… I ...
It’s high time courts stopped letting cops get away with literal armed robbery: …a [Nevada] judge has ruled that [cops] cannot [abuse] a federal program to circumvent state laws designed to protect property owners. The ruling effectively closes what the Nevada Highway Patrol…argued was a...
For our enquiry, we observed individuals at the point when they visited police stations in order to make a complaint, thereby interacting with police officers, whose role is to make a legal judgment about the events related to them so that the matter can be referred to the courts. Individuals...
Moreover, the law that prevents out-of-state retailers from shipping wine into Ohio, while allowing in-state stores to ship to Ohio residents, will remain in place while the case is reconsidered. "The decision that came down at the 6th Circuit [appeals court] was good news," said Tom ...
In motions to both courts, Woodfill claimed that Lopez’s attorneys were working in concert with Harris County prosecutors to go after Hotze. He questioned whether Hotze’s rights against self-incrimination were violated by the civil lawyers sharing depositions with the Harris County District ...
The word justice is usually associated with courts of law. We might say that justice has been done when a man's innocence or guilt has been proved beyond doubt. Justice is part of the complex machinery of the law. Those who seek it undertake an arduous journey and can never be sure tha...
Justice Juan Merchan, the judge who will preside over the trial, has taken the bench. Merchan is a veteran judge in the New York Supreme Court (which is how New York refers to its trial courts). In 2022, Merchan presided over a criminal tax fraud trial against the Trump Organization....