Cases

TRIPS Part II: International Trade meets Public Health: TRIPS and Access to Medicines

Publication Date: March 22, 2004

The Agreement on Trade-Related Intellectual Property (TRIPS) at the World Trade Organization (WTO) was the most comprehensive and far-reaching international agreement on intellectual property rights ever made. Perhaps the most widely discussed...

City of New York and the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement (Epilogue)

Publication Date: March 01, 2004

This epilogue accompanies the main case 1730.0. The Office of Management and Budget of the City of New York is considering how to use a new source of revenue--the payments from the Tobacco Master Settlement. The recently settled tobacco lawsuit...

The Daniels Fund

Publication Date: March 01, 2004

Bill Daniels was a larger-than-life figure in the State of Colorado whose careers spanned the worlds of professional sports, business, politics, and the military. When the cable television magnate died in March of 2000, he left his charitable...

Closing the Weather Service Office in Lake City

Publication Date: March 01, 2004

This case tells the story of a public campaign to halt plans to close, for budgetary reasons, a local weather service office, whose forecasting functions would be assumed by other larger offices in the area equipped with state-of-the art radar...

The AmeriCorps Budget Crisis of 2003 (B)

Publication Date: March 01, 2004

The (B) case, details the decisions which the Corporation for National and Community Service made as to how best to estimate the funding needs for the Trust. The (B) case (1740.0), however, goes on to frame political questions which develop when...

The AmeriCorps Budget Crisis of 2003: Why the National Service Movement Faced Cutbacks and How it Responded (A)

Publication Date: March 01, 2004

The (A) case (1739.0) focuses on the early years of the program in the 1990s, providing a definitive account--based on interviews with those who drafted the authorizing legislation--on how the program was conceived and structured and how it...

The New Hampshire Landslide Warning

Publication Date: February 01, 2004

This case describes a situation (based on actual events, but disguised in this telling) in which city officials receive a warning that as a result of persistent snow followed by rain, there is a significant probability of a major landslide from...

Drug Testing at North City High School (B)

Publication Date: February 01, 2004

This fictionalized two-part case describes a standard policy analysis problem that arises in screening using imperfect tests. It poses the challenge faced by a school principal about whether drug testing for students should be ordered. Under...

Drug Testing at North City High School (A)

Publication Date: February 01, 2004

This fictionalized two-part case describes a standard policy analysis problem that arises in screening using imperfect tests. It poses the challenge faced by a school principal about whether drug testing for students should be ordered. Under...

A Duty to Leak?

Publication Date: February 01, 2004

This case describes the challenge faced by the executive director of a (disguised) human rights watchdog agency. The state wants to increase the number of inmates in its prisons (without increasing the size of the facilities). This requires the...

"Big Media" Meets the "Bloggers": Coverage of Trent Lott's Remarks at Strom Thurmond's Birthday Party

Publication Date: February 01, 2004

The resignation of Mississippi Senator Trent Lott from his position as Majority Leader was an event unprecedented in the history of the US Senate. It occurred precipitously, in the wake of remarks he had made at an event where no one expected...

City of New York and the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement

Publication Date: January 30, 2004

The Office of Management and Budget of the City of New York is considering how to use a new source of revenue--the payments from the Tobacco Master Settlement. The recently settled tobacco lawsuit between the states and the major tobacco...