Mortgage fraud, often a violation of federal and state criminal statutes, covers a number of different types of … residential mortgage loans. Mortgage fraud has become prevalent over the past decade and shows no signs of diminishing despite the … mortgage loan markets, subprime markets, and various types of mortgage fraud. This paper concludes that the root causes of …

Several recent judicial opinions suggest that patent law’s inequitable conduct doctrine is broken. These opinions … indicate that - despite its admirable objective of encouraging disclosure of important information to the Patent Office - the … inequitable conduct defense is being over-used by alleged infringers in patent litigation to the detriment of the public. This …

decentralization initiatives are driven more by the increased demand to address market failures, particularly the rampant fraud …