Plaintiff as Deponent: Invoking the Fifth Amendment

A fifth amendment to the intestine's constitution

Rad54 mutant stays rooted to the spot O nly a small proportion of the proteins that gather around a DNA double-strand break are actively involved in repairing the damage, Agarwal et al. suggest. Double-strand breaks are repaired by homologous recombination, in which missing sections of DNA are replaced using sister chromatids as undamaged templates. Rad51 is the central catalyst of this process...

Emerging neurotechnologies for lie detection and the fifth amendment.

The article examines the legal implications and advantages of emerging Neurotechnological Lie Detection (NTLD). The self-incrimination clause of the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was taken into account, including its scope over NTLD. Key information about the reliability and privacy issues of NTLD is further presented. Comments Postprint version. Published in American Journal of Law ...

The Origins and Original Significance of the Just Compensation Clause of the Fifth Amendment

Decrypting the Fifth Amendment: the Limits of Self- Incrimination in the Digital Era

Technology has outgrown the Supreme Court’s Fifth Amendment jurisprudence. This creates two distinct but related challenges. First, the scope of the “foregone conclusion” doctrine, which was originally formulated to address act-of-production issues for paper documents, is ripe for review and clarification now that documents are almost always digital and often encrypted. Second, the question of ...

Invoking Law as a Basis for Identity in Cyberspace

¶1 On Sunday morning, Ms. B. dials into Prodigy, then logs on to the Prayer Line, a bulletin board storing messages from around the world. She scans a list of the most recent entries: Learning how to lean; Let me pray for you; My father; My mother’s stroke; National day of prayer; Please pray; Prayer for health; Ralph needs prayer; The father’s heart.1 These are the supplications of a group tha...