Law and Science
Cases and Materials
Victoria Sutton, M.P.A., Ph.D., J.D.
Associate Professor
Texas Tech University School of Law
CAROLINA ACADEMIC PRESS
Durham, North Carolina
Contents
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Table of Cases
A Scientist's Foreword
A Jurist's Foreword
Preface
About the Author
Acknowledgments
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Chapter One. Law and Science: The Interdisciplinary Relationship
A. Introduction to the Relationship between Law and Science
Missouri v. Illinois and the Sanitary District of Chicago
Keynote Address, 1998 Annual Meeting of the American
Bar Association.
B. Statistics, Courts and Regulatory Approach
1. Statistics, legislation and the judiciary
Walker v. Hall
Craig v. Boren
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Cuellar v. Hout
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Department of Commerce v. United States House of
Representatives
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Chapter Two. The Government, Law and Science
A. Federal Government and Science-the Executive Branch, Legislative
Branch and the President
1. Presidential Science Advice
2. Administrative Law and Science
Lombardo v. Handler
Animal Legal Defense Fund v. Shalala
Animal Legal Defense Fund v. Shalala
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Food Chemical News v. Frank E. Young, Commissioner Food
and Drug Administration
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B. Government Support of Basic Research - Application of Ethics, Law
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1. Executive Branch, National Science Foundation and Researcher
Ethics
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2. Executive Branch, National Institutes of Health and Researcher
Ethics, Researcher Individual Rights
McCutchen v. DHHS
Needleman v. Bernadine Healy, Director of the National
Institutes of Health, Jules Hallum, Director of Office of
Scientific Integrity, et. al.
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C. Regulation of Biotechnology
Foundation on Economic Trends v. Lyng
Edmonds Institute v. Babbitt, Secretary of Interior
D. State & Local Control of Science, Regulating Professions
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Chiropractic Cooperative Association of Michigan v. American
Medical Association
State Board of Examiners for Architects and Engineers et al.
v. Standard Engineering Company et al.
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Chapter Three. The Private Sector, Law and Science
A. Science, Law & Religion
1. Law and the Teaching of Evolution - Conflict with Religion
Epperson v. Arkansas
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Moore v. Gaston Co. Board of Education
Edwards, Governor of Louisiana, et al. v. Aguillard et al.
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2. Law and the Religion/ Medical Science Conflict
Brown v. Stone
Walker v. the Superior Court of Sacramento County
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Commonwealth v. David R. Twitchell v. Ginger Twitchell
B. Disclosure of Medical Information and Privacy Law
Norman-Bloodsaw v. Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
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C. Human Tissues, Science and Law
Moore v. Regents of the University of California
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D. Technology and the Changing Concept of "expectation of privacy"
Dow Chemical Company v. United States
United States of America v. Ishmael
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Chapter Four. Law, Science and the Courts
A. Introduction
B. The Courts and Scientific Evidence
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Frye v. United States
Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
General Electric Company v. Joiner
Kumho Tire Company v. Carmichael
Kennedy v. Southern California Edison
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C. The Courts and the Science of Evidence
1. DNA evidence and controversies
Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism (RFLP) and
Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) Techniques
State of Oregon v. Robert Wallace Lyons
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2. Toxicological and Epidemiological Concepts in Law
A. Toxicology
B. Epidemiology
In re Paioli Railroad Yard PCB Litigation
Raynor v. Merrell Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
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3. Toxic tort litigation
In re ''Agent Orange" Product Liability Litigation
In re Dalkon Shield
Mariam Hopkins v. Dow
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4. Social Science Evidence
Elgin National Watch Co. v. Elgin Clock Co.
Triangle Publications v. Rohrilich
Zippo Manufacturing Co. v. Rogers Imports, Inc.
Arche, Inc. v. Azaleia, U.S.A., Inc.
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D. Scientific Evidence in Trial Practice
1. Pretrial motions, depositions of experts
Wintz v. Northrop Corporation and Eastman Kodak Company
Wintz v. Northrup
2. Direct examination and cross examination of experts
Chapter Five. The Future of Law and Science
I. Where will science bring about changes in the law?
A. National Security, Science and Law
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United States v. Wise
B. Explosives and Technology and Causation
United States v. Panzero
C. DNA, Genome, Cloning, Body Patterns, Identification and Privacy
The Case Against Human Cloning
United States v. Waters
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D. Tracking Identities
E. Toxic Torts, Emerging Diseases
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F. Environmental Diseases
Frank v. New York
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G. International Boundaries
Symposium on Regulating Medical Innovation: The
Architecture of Government Regulation of Medical Products
II. Where will the law demand that science respond?
Zenith Laboratories, Inc. v. Bristol-Myers Squibb
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Scientific Evidence Symposium: Article: Jurisprudence
or "Juriscience"?
The Law-Science Interface in Public Policy Decisionmaking
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