Judge Weinstein in the Agent Orange case is a positive example of how to approach law and policy cases. The last years of the Agent Orange case under Judge Weinstein, and his subsequent commentary on mass tort litigation in his article Ethical Dilemmas in Mass Tort Litigation, combine to show the valuable benefits of having a Judge who is willing to go to extraordinary lengths to help create innovations in the judicial process in response to new and complex cases. I praise His ability and willingness to reflect on ethical and public policy issues in an attempt to educate the public and help create ethical systems that can respond to the new and exceptionally complex public welfare concerns brought about as our modern society advances.
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We learn a lot when we can innovate by contemplating, accepting, and changing the pitfalls of experience. Judge Weinstein offers the field deep analysis on ethical and practical problems associated with using a system that was only designed to accommodate the 30 million people in Lincolns day, compared to the 300 million that depend on the system today. For these reasons I find Judge Weinstein to be a useful example of how to approach law and policy cases that require innovation, new ethics implications, and education, both systemically, and within individual cases. There are some disadvantages to having such an active judge, and those will be discussed in Part …show more content…
The most readily apparent example can be found in the Foundations on Economic Trends v. Heckler, cases of 1984 and 1985. In the Economic Trends case, we see the Supreme Court reversing the court of appeals decision that scientific experiments involving the release of genetically modified organisms into the environment ought to always require a certain level of scientific scrutiny, and Environmental Impact Statement (EIS). This is decided while the court holds that the defendants ought to have applied more scientific scrutiny in light of the unknown and potentially wide-reaching effects of GMO’s on the
Weinstein …show more content…
We learn a lot when we can innovate by contemplating, accepting, and changing the pitfalls of experience. Judge Weinstein offers the field deep analysis on ethical and practical problems associated with using a system that was only designed to accommodate the 30 million people in Lincolns day, compared to the 300 million that depend on the system today. For these reasons I find Judge Weinstein to be a useful example of how to approach law and policy cases that require innovation, new ethics implications, and education, both systemically, and within individual cases. There are some disadvantages to having such an active judge, and those will be discussed in Part …show more content…
The most readily apparent example can be found in the Foundations on Economic Trends v. Heckler, cases of 1984 and 1985. In the Economic Trends case, we see the Supreme Court reversing the court of appeals decision that scientific experiments involving the release of genetically modified organisms into the environment ought to always require a certain level of scientific scrutiny, and Environmental Impact Statement (EIS). This is decided while the court holds that the defendants ought to have applied more scientific scrutiny in light of the unknown and potentially wide-reaching effects of GMO’s on the