State ex rel. DES v. Pandola
No. CV-16-0240-PR, 2018 WL 560280 (Ariz. Jan. 26, 2018). Case brief by Paloma Diaz. Full Case Brief
Wright v. Gates
No. CR-16-0435-PR WL 4399231 (Ariz. Oct. 4, 2017). Case brief by Jennie Tetreault. Full Case Brief
A Call for Probationer Data Privacy: Can States Require Cell Phone Search Waivers?
49 Ariz. St. L.J. 1487 (2017). Alexandra Crandall. Ninety-one percent of adults own a cell phone, making it the most quickly adopted technology by consumers in history. Cell phones have become so ubiquitous that they are indispensable to modern life.…
Enemy Construction and the Press
49 Ariz. St. L.J. 1301 (2017). RonNell Andersen Jones & Lisa Grow Sun. When the President of the United States declared recently that the press is “the enemy,” it set off a firestorm of criticism from defenders of the institutional media and…
Exculpation as Inculpation
49 Ariz. St. L.J. 1141 (2017). Russell L. Christopher. Should a criminal defendant who contrives, creates, or causes the conditions of her own defense forfeit the defense? For example, suppose a provocateur taunts a provocatee into unlawfully attacking so that…
Overclaiming Is Criminal
49 Ariz. St. L.J. 1417 (2017). Oskar Liivak. For some time patent law has been criticized for a flood of bad patents. Patents of questionable validity are being issued with overly broad, often nebulous boundaries. A majority of the blame…
A Balancing Act: Providing the Proper Balance Between a Child Sexual Abuse Victim’s Rights and the Right to Personal Cross-Examination in Arizona
49 Ariz. St. L.J. 1453 (2017). Tyler Carlton. A victim of child sexual abuse takes the stand, and the abuse begins again—this time with the sanction of law. In some cases, abusers exercise the right of self-representation to personally cross-examine…
Lost Art and the Public Domain
49 Ariz. St. L.J. 1257 (2017). Alan L. Durham. Because a patentable invention must be novel, and it must embody an advancement that would not have been obvious to persons of ordinary skill, the invention must be compared to the…