Where would you look to find a brief description and analysis of a U.S. Supreme Court case? Findlaw, LEXIS, or Westlaw? Your nearest law library?
As of February, you can look up "information about each case decided by the Court between the 1953 and 2008 terms" on The Supreme Court Database Web site. The Spaeth database of Supreme Court cases has been publicly available since the late 1980s; advances in technology have now made it usable on the internet.
In the Analysis section, you can search for cases by name or citation, and review the case details. The details screen includes links to decision on several sites.
Or you can scroll down on the Analysis page and set the data parameters to see an analysis on a range of cases, including the option to create reports based on the data and the list of related cases.
It's nice when technology is both amazing and useful.
--Frances
-- Jeffrey
While those investigations so far have focused on the devicemakers themselves and alleged kickback payments to physicians, some healthcare attorneys say it's only a matter of time before prosecutors follow the money downstream to the hospitals where some of those doctors work, sit on formularies or specialty committees, and perform surgery.
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