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50 Ariz. St. L.J. 365 (2018). Luci Davis. In 2015, Social Security Disability Insurance paid out $143,282 million in cash benefits. Although one might balk at that amount, the average monthly benefit to the roughly nine million eligible recipients was…

50 Ariz. St. L.J. 335 (2018). Guillaume J. Aimé. The First Amendment protection is failing in an important setting of our current society: advertising spaces in public transit systems. The United States courts of appeals are split as to how to…

50 Ariz. St. L.J. 71 (2018). Colleen Chien. On June 8, 1999, the Patent Office (“USPTO”), like it does every Tuesday, published the names and numbers of newly issued patents. Among them was the 6,032,137 (“the ‘137 patent”), a patent that described…

50 Ariz. St. L.J. 3 (2018). David E. Adelman & Robert L. Glicksman. This Article assesses the impact of judicial review on one of the nation’s foundational environmental statutes, the National Environmental Policy Act (“NEPA”). Based on litigation spanning fifteen years, we…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…