Being True to Trulia: Do Disclosure-Only Settlements in Merger Objection Lawsuits Harm Shareholders?

“This may hurt”: predictions in procedural disclosure may do harm

The practice of “procedural disclosure” involves clinicians providing a description of the sensations that they assume patients are likely to experience during a procedure. The presumed rationale is threefold: as a corollary of the principle of informed consent; as part of truth telling in the clinician-patient relationship that fosters trust; and to help patients cope with procedures. But this...

Do Patent Challenge Rights Lead to Placeholder Lawsuits?

One of the more curious features of patent law is that patents can be challenged by anyone affected by them, at any time. This challenge right allows potential defendants to file a declaratory relief lawsuit in their local federal district court, seeking a judgment that a patent is invalid or noninfringed. To avoid this home-court advantage, patent owners may file a patent infringement lawsuit ...

Disclosure: only a first step.

cancer diagnosis disclosure: what is the right thing to do?

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Statistical Disclosure Risk: Separating Potential and Harm

Statistical agencies are keen to devise ways to provide research access to data while protecting confidentiality. Although methods of statistical disclosure risk assessment are now well established in the statistical science literature, the integration of these methods by agencies into a general scientific basis for their practice still proves difficult. This paper seeks to review and clarify t...