Megan Keane · June 2009 77 GEO. WASH. L. REV. 1101 (2009) Because patents are increasingly valuable and the number of patents issued increases every year, oversight by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (“PTO”) and the judiciary must be streamlined to ensure the patent holders’ rights are protected. After a patent has been issued... Read More

Elliott Karr · June 2009 77 GEO. WASH. L. REV. 1080 (2009) The creation of independent agencies within the executive branch has produced a significant amount of scholarly debate about how the executive power should be distributed within the federal government. Although the existence of these independent agencies is likely to continue, the debate over... Read More

Julian Helisek · June 2009 77 GEO. WASH. L. REV. 1063 (2009) Free Enterprise Fund v. Public Co. Accounting Oversight Board, easily one of “the most important separation-of-powers case[s] regarding the President’s appointment and removal powers . . . in the last 20 years,” is off to the Supreme Court. The case involves a facial challenge to... Read More

Elliot Golding · June 2009 77 GEO. WASH. L. REV. 1044 (2009) Medicare Part D, enacted as part of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 (“MMA”), was designed to revolutionize the public health system by using the private insurance market to make prescription drug coverage for the elderly available and affordable.... Read More

Ben Everard · June 2009 77 GEO. WASH. L. REV. 1033 (2009) Few technological developments in the modern era have impacted the day-to-day lives of Americans more significantly than the cell phone. The development of cell phones and the first cellular networks emerged in the latter part of the twentieth century. By 2007, half the... Read More

Shaina N. Elias · June 2009 77 GEO. WASH. L. REV. 1015 (2009) Alex Harris likes to travel with his family. In fact, Alex’s family, who lives in New York City, recently took a trip to London. Upon their return to John F. Kennedy International Airport from London, however, Alex Harris and his family were... Read More

Andrew Croner · June 2009 77 GEO. WASH. L. REV. 1002 (2009) The power of appointments under the Constitution is governed by the Appointments Clause.  On its face, the Appointments Clause appears to be a model of clarity among the many more vague commands of the Constitution;the procedures used for the appointment of federal officers... Read More

Christopher Carlberg · June 2009 77 GEO. WASH. L. REV. 992 (2009) After serving either four or eight years as the most powerful person in the world, no President of the United States likes to think that his influence will suddenly vanish on his successor’s Inauguration Day. History has shown that most presidential administrations exert... Read More