President Barack Obama today (May 26) named Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court. Indiana University law professors Craig Bradley, Kevin Collins, Gerard Magliocca, María Pabón López and David Orentlicher comment on the appointment.
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Books featured in the May 2009 issue of Book Marks focus on the papers of FDR refugee adviser James G. McDonald, a history of criminal justice in China, a diary kept by a Russian merchant around the year 1800, a biography of Muslim mystic Baba Rexheb, essays on surface decoration in African art, the concept of glamour in the 20th century, the importance of sensibility in defining a young American nation, folk performance art in Turkey, and concepts of race and nation in Brazil and the U.S.
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A judge in Minnesota has ruled that a family must get medical treatment for their 13-year-old son's cancer because it is highly treatable. Based on the family's religious convictions, the family had chosen alternative treatments for their son's Hodgkin's lymphoma, which has a 90-percent cure rate with chemotherapy. According to Jody Madeira, a professor at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law, Brown County District Judge John Rodenberg correctly found that the parents of Daniel Hauser have medically neglected their son by refusing chemotherapy.
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The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit (May 11) against the Patent and Trademark Office, Myriad Genetics, and the University of Utah Research Foundation for patenting two genes associated with hereditary breast and ovarian cancers. Yvonne Cripps, the Harry T. Ice Professor of Law at Indiana University Maurer School of Law, says this is likely to be a landmark case.
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David P. Fidler, the James Louis Calamaras Professor of Law at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law, said the developing debate about the responses to Influenza A (H1N1) is important but people should be wary of simplistic hype about the "panic" that public health responses to the outbreak have ostensibly caused.
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Indiana University will conduct a Teach In on May 5 to share with the campus and Bloomington community the latest information about Human Influenza A (H1N1), also known as swine flu.
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U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter will retire after the current term recesses in June. He was appointed to the court by President George H.W. Bush in 1990. Indiana University Maurer School of Law professors are available to comment on his retirement and what it means for President Barack Obama, who will have his first opportunity to name a justice to the highest court.
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Indiana University Maurer School of Law Professor Luis Fuentes-Rohwer said Northwest Austin Municipal Utility District Number One v. Holder ("Namudno") raises some of the most important constitutional and institutional questions of the last 25 years.
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Indiana University experts in statistical analysis and computer modeling of epidemics, health law and public health discuss statistical models for U.S. cases, challenges to addressing the spread of the swine flu and advice for staying healthy.
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The World Health Organization has declared the outbreak of swine influenza A a "public health emergency of international concern," and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has declared a national public health emergency because of the outbreak. David P. Fidler, the James Louis Calamaras Professor of Law at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law, said that these declarations reflect the emergence of a new influenza virus that might have the potential to trigger a pandemic.
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