During the 2012 TLR Symposium held on November 9, 2012, Byron Halsey presented the story of how he was coerced into confessing to a crime he didn’t commit. He was convicted of the crime and remained in prison for almost twenty years before being exonerated. In 1985, Halsey was questioned about the murder of his […]
As part of the 2012 TLR Symposium held on November 9, 2012, a panel of experts discussed deception and other strategic tactics used during police interrogations. Professor Edward Ohlbaum of Temple Law moderated the panel, comprised of Professor Louis Natali of Temple Law and Joseph P. Buckley III, a criminal enforcement consultant on interrogation methods […]
At the 2012 TLR Symposium held on November 9, 2012, a panel of experts discussed ways that confessions can be contaminated during the interrogation process and considered ways that courts could examine the reliability of confessions before trial. The panel included: Richard Leo, Professor of Law at the University of San Francisco School of Law; […]
At the 2012 TLR Symposium held on November 9, 2012, Dr. Saul Kassin delivered the Keynote Speech on his research of false confessions. Dr. Kassin is a Distinguished Professor of Psychology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, who pioneered the scientific study of false confessions by developing a taxonomy that distinguishes types of false […]
In Khan v. Dell Inc., 669 F.3d 350 (3d Cir. 2012), the Third Circuit Court of Appeals held that an unavailable arbitrator was not “integral” to a contract, that § 5 of the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) required substituting an alternate arbitrator, and articulated an “integral” standard that future arbitration clause drafters should consider. Khan v. Dell […]
In the realm of e-discovery, Race Tires America, Inc. v. Hoosier Racing Tire Corp., 674 F.3d 158 (3d Cir. 2012), limits the prevailing party to recover only scanning and file format conversion costs for “making copies” under 28 U.S.C. §1920(4). Race Tires v. Hoosier Racing (e-discovery)(pdf) Introduction In Race Tires America, Inc. v. Hoosier Racing Tire Corp.,[1] the Third […]
It was a Monday morning at the IRS Office of Chief Counsel. I, the bright-eyed, bushy-tailed intern was dressed in my best suit in preparation for my first meeting with a taxpayer. My attorney supervisor had explained to me that the taxpayer we were meeting was petitioning the Tax Court for innocent spouse relief. The […]
On March 28, 2012, the Philadelphia Bar Association awarded its Justice Sotomayor Diversity Award to the Liacouras Committee, formed in 1970 to study the Pennsylvania Bar examination and determine whether its grading practices were discriminatory against African Americans who sought admission to the Pennsylvania Bar. The editors and staff of the Temple Law Review wish […]
Patent law often seems to oscillate as if on a pendulum, swinging between patent standards that are too lenient and standards that are too strict. In the 1930s and early 1940s patents were viewed as providing monopolistic protection too easily, leading to judicial efforts to curtail patent rights. By the end of the 1940s, America […]