Smoking is the leading cause of preventable death in the United States. More than 12 million premature deaths over the past 40 years were attributable to smoking. Today, smoking causes approximately 438,000 deaths each year and results in over $167 billion in annual health-related economic...

In 2001, the Ninth Circuit affirmed a trial court decision that some 75 million Americans were infringing copyright by exchanging music files in the MP3 format via a peer-to-peer (P2P) network known as Napster. The breathtaking sweep of this holding - that almost one quarter of the population of...

As communities move toward statewide smoke-free regulation, progress is often stymied by legal and political challenges that arise when multiple cities and counties share regulatory power within what is, for economic purposes, a single population center. Political challenges are exacerbated by...