Publisher's Synopsis
This book analyses recent Supreme Court decisions and their implications. Legislative decisions examined include: sex discrimination developments; retroactivity and the Good-Faith exception to the exclusionary rule; warrantless, police-triggered exigent searches; official immunity and material witnesses before the Supreme Court; the Confrontation Clause after Michigan v. Bryant and Bullcoming v. New Mexico; federal pre-emption of state tort law regarding medical devices with FDA premarket approval; an overview of the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act; implications for innovation policy in Microsoft v. i4i: duty to disclose shareholders in Matrixx Initiatives v. Siracusano; the Supreme Court's pre-enforcement review of the Clean Water Act; and judicial and legislative developments in the Law of Deinstitutionalization.
