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Data Analytics and the Fight against Housing Blight: A Guide for Local Leaders
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Decoding the Market's Reaction to Settlement Announcements
(2015)This study examines defendant stock price returns on the day preceding, the day of, and the day following announcements of settlements in various types of litigation from 2009 through 2014. I hypothesized that defendant ... -
Deconstructing the Regulatory Facade: Why Confused Consumers Feed their Pets Ring Dings and Krispy Kremes
(2006)Americans own more than 130 million cats and dogs and spend over $12 billion per year on commercial pet foods. The commercial pet food industry faces minimal substantive regulation, despite navigating several layers of ... -
The Delicate Dance of Immersion and Insulation: The Politicization of the FDA Commissioner
(2003)The Food and Drug Administration never has been and never will be completely insulated from politics; it exists and operates as an integral part of the federal government in Washington, DC, not in a vacuum. Nevertheless, ... -
The Department of Agriculture's Regulation of Poultry Under the Poultry Products Inspection Act of 1957
(1997)The purpose of this paper is to investigate the reasons how conflicts between the USDA and FDA create obstacles to effective public health policy exist in the United States. I will begin my investigation by briefly outlining ... -
Derivatives Safe Harbors in Bankruptcy and Dodd-Frank: A Structural Analysis
(2013)The Bankruptcy Code exempts financial derivatives and repurchase agreements from key provisions, such as the automatic stay. The primary rationale for this special treatment has been the fear that the failure of an important ... -
Determining Optimal Default Savings Rates For 401(K) Plans
(2015)Automatic enrolment in 401(k) plans has succeeded in increasing employee participation rates, but the impact on overall savings rates has been less than might have been expected, as some participants who would have previously ... -
Dietary Supplements: A Historical Examination of its Regulation
(2002)The subject of this paper is the regulation of dietary supplements, with the passage of the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 (DSHEA) marked as a turning point. The paper examines the history of regulation ... -
Dietary Supplements: A Review of United States Regulation with Emphasis on the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 and Subsequent Activity
(2004)This paper undertakes a review of notable dietary supplement regulation in the United States. First, this paper discusses dietary supplements generally and their uses and economic characteristics. Second, this paper discusses ... -
A Difficult Proposition: Oral Contraceptives' Switch from Prescription to Over-the-counter Status
(1997)The choice between maintaining oral contraceptives at their current prescription drug status or switching the drugs to over-the-counter status, like so many other decisions in Food and Drug Law, has as much to do with ... -
Direct-to-Consumer Advertising of Alzheimer’s Disease Drugs
(2012)Use of direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertising by pharmaceutical manufacturers has skyrocketed in the past few decades as patients demand more information on drugs and the FDA has gotten more relaxed in its regulation of ... -
Disclosure of the Dealings Between Drug Developing Companies and the FDA Under the Federal Securities Laws
(2002)The purpose of this article is to highlight the main issues raised by the Food and Drug Administration’s (“FDAâ€) approval process relating to new drugs and the treatment ... -
DISEASE-PREVENTION CLAIMS AND THE FIRST AMENDMENT: "WHO WILL PROTECT US FROM OUR PROTECTORS?"
(1994)The area of disease-prevention claims ("health claims") for food poses a broad spectrum of dilemmas that often arise in the food and drug law area and in other regulatory situations. These recurring questions include: How ... -
The Dividing Line Between the Role of the FDA and the Practice of Medicine: A Historical Review and Current Analysis
(1997)Over the years, the Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") has consistently asserted that it does not regulate the practice of medicine (the "Practice of Medicine Exception") . This prohibition has never been specifically ... -
DNA Sequences as Unpatentable Subject Matter
(2001)Man has played no part in creating DNA. It is nature which created and perfected DNA over thousands of years of evolution. What required man’s ingenuity was isolating, purifying, and sequencing the DNA. ... -
Dollar and Senses: Pharmaceutical Product Design is Becoming Vivid
(2003)Prilosec purple, Viagra blue, and Prozac green and cream: pharmaceutical product design is on the rise, and the future is even brighter. As design features come into view, protection against copying is critical to maintaining ... -
DOPING IN SPORT: AN OVERVIEW AND ANALYSIS OF DOPING AND ITS REGULATION IN INTERNATIONAL SPORT
(2003)At an early age, every one of us learns to despise cheating. Whether it be on the playground or in the classroom, cheating is wrong. Even as we grow up and appreciate the nuances of competition in business and in social ... -
A DOSE OF YOUR OWN MEDICINE? DRUG TESTING ON CHILDREN AND LABELING DRUGS FOR PEDIATRIC USE--ESSENTIAL NEEDS
(1997)Children are not just miniature adults; a child metabolizes and absorbs drugs differently than adults, making drug testing and labeling regarding pediatric use essential. This paper first addresses these needs in more ... -
Dr. Koch: A Cancer Quack?
(2006)This paper discusses the life and medical research of Dr. William F. Koch, a physiologist who claimed to have discovered a cure for cancer in the 20th century. Dr. Koch’s early education and research is ... -
Drafting organic Food Regulations: The Case for Incorporating Congressional Intent and Interest Group Commentary
(1999)The scope of the organic food debate has embroiled more constituents than simply consumers and producers of organic food. At each step along the way various interest groups such as small organic farmers, private organic ...