Recruitment of donors is vital to their success and relies largely on blanket consent, in which donors give one-time permission for any future research uses of their coded specimen. Previous ...

The fact that many parties give blanket consent shows that the world will not end if parties no longer play a gatekeeping role. And it's a waste of the Court's time to have to decide whether an ...

Under Supreme Court Rule 37.2(b), amici must seek consent from the parties to file a brief. Often, after cert is granted, the parties provide blanket consent for all amici. And even when blanket ...