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2012 Philadelphia Bar Association’s Justice Sotomayor Diversity Award

Posted on April 4th, 2012

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 […]

Essay: “Will America Reinvent Itself? The Patent Pendulum and Patent Reform in 2011”

Posted on July 13th, 2011by Gregory N. Mandel

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 […]

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* Brynn C. Chafin, Temple University Beasley School of Law, 2024. Introduction On January 20, 2025, President Donald Trump was sworn into office for his second term as President of the United States of America.[1] Although his administration has and will continue to affect all parts of American life, it will impact the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act […]

By Fiona Burke, Temple Law Review Volume 96 Staff Editor Liberals have, as exit polls and Bernie Sanders point out, largely lost the working class and, in fact, most of America. There are many reasons for this, all of which have been dissected and analyzed ad nauseum in the past few weeks and likely will be for even years. One such […]

Author: Jasnoor Hundal In early August 2023, the Supreme Court stayed the Second Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision, In re Purdue Pharma L.P., and granted certiorari to hear oral argument in December of 2023. The parties were asked to brief and argue “[w]hether the Bankruptcy Code authorizes a court to approve, as part of a […]