"After decades of research and civil rights litigation, we know that the vast majority of self-harm and suicides in prison, jails, and juvenile detention centers occur in solitary confinement units across the country," Amy Fettig, the head of the ACLU's Stop Solitary campaign and a senior staff attorney with the National Prison Project, tells VICE.
As a result, she said, if home 3-D printing "really does take off, product liability litigation as we know it may, in large measure, dry up". At the least, she said, it will erode some of the protections under the current doctrine.
After years of litigation, we now know that while some have become seriously ill, thousands have only sinusitis and other minor ailments, while hundreds admit they are not sick at all but worried they might be.
The Supreme Court's decision in AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion, handed down a year ago, was greeted as a "game-changer" that could "end class-action litigation in America as we know it".
As Amplex put it, "The [FCC's] ruling does such a poor job of defining what the FCC actually intends that many years of expensive litigation will result before we know exactly what the FCC costs are going to be". (The Amplex comment is at 16:22).
"The notion that there will be all this wild litigation is undermined by everything we know about who brings suit today," Ms. Rosenbaum said.
"We know the litigation is out there," said Weill, referring to suits on equity research at the company's Salomon Smith Barney investment banking unit.
But we know from history and litigation that racists often do their deeds in the dark.
In civil litigation, as we all know, once the parties have had a trial and whatever appeals are available, the litigation comes to an end and the judgment is final.
But, as all litigation associates know from late nights and bitter experience, a service called Shepard's characterizes citations.
The very notion of jurisdiction as a distinct statutory condition was ignored in this litigation, and I know of no body of precedent or history of practice giving content to the condition sufficient for gauging the Tribe's chances of satisfying it.
