The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has overturned a widely criticized precedent, drawing applause from patent lawyers. The decision eliminated a 20-year-old rule that punished ...

Judicial sanctions for spoliation of evidence are left entirely to the discretion of the courts. As a example, my office recently represented an elderly gentleman in federal court in a slip and fall ...

Belief rule-based inference systems represent a powerful framework for reasoning under multiple forms of uncertainty in complex decision-making contexts. Grounded in a hybrid of rule-based expert ...