The Petition Request Form is used to request a waiver of a curriculum requirement or a course substitution. Students should discuss petitions with their faculty advisor before submitting. You need to ...

The age of big data is upon us. Data in law is ubiquitous, informative of past decisions and helpful in prognosticating future results. How we make use of this data is often a topic of debate. One ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Recently there has been a great deal of discussion about what makes our country great and about ...

BOSTON — Right-to-lifers in Massachusetts plan to start gathering signatures next week to try to bring a born-alive ballot question to voters next year, now that the state’s highest court has allowed ...

Petitions are sort of like pleading practice before the Office over issues that do not necessarily have to do with the patentability of your claims. The Office of Petitions will receive your petition ...

“Petitioning to overcome an improper final Office action is, contrary to conventional wisdom, not necessarily a futile exercise. Applicants can and do obtain granted petitions in far faster time than ...

Campaigns to wrangle the masses online circulate at a staggering rate. Some online petitions are ridiculous, like "Make Beyonce comb her daughter’s hair," and some promise things they can't deliver ...

In the realm of global trade, the use of anti-dumping petitions by large U.S. manufacturing companies has become a controversial practice to some. Anti-dumping measures are intended to protect ...