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| Greenhill Fall Classic | 2 | Opponent: Coppell RM | Judge: Saianurag Karavadi AC - Trade Secrets Open source |
| Greenhill Fall Classic | 4 | Opponent: Strake Jesuit DL | Judge: William Freedman AC - Trade Secrets v2 |
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0 - ContactTournament: Any | Round: 1 | Opponent: Any | Judge: Any You can contact me by: Feel free to message me if you have any questions, requests, or concerns | 9/2/21 |
0 - Disclosure InterpsTournament: Any | Round: 1 | Opponent: Any | Judge: Any Interpretation: The affirmative must disclose the advocacy/plan text and framing text if they break new when pairings are released or at coin flip. If the debate occurs during flight 2 disclosure should occur at least 30 minutes before the round. Interp: The affirmative must disclose the plan text and advantage area thirty minutes before the round Interp: At bid distributing tournaments, debaters must disclose round reports on the 2021-22 NDCA LD wiki for every round they have debated this season. Round reports disclose which positions (AC, NC, K, T, Theory, etc.) were read/gone for in every speech. Interpretation: At bid distributing tournaments, debaters must disclose all constructive positions on open source with highlighting on the 2021-22 NDCA LD wiki after the round in which they read them. The disclosure must occur within 30 minutes after the round. If there is something you don’t want to disclose for personal reasons there should be a note and it may be omitted. Interp: Debaters must disclose tournaments on the 2021-22 NDCA LD wiki under the actual name of the tournament on tabroom for every round at said tournament. To clarify- when you look up the tournament name from the wiki on tab, the entry must pop up Interpretation: debaters must disclose disclosure interps Interpretation: If a debater reads a word PIK they must disclose it on the 2021-22 NDCA LD Wiki before the round it is read in. Interpretation: Debaters must put their opponent’s name or initials and school code as displayed on tabroom when disclosing a round on the 2021-22 NDCA ld wiki. Interpretation: Debaters must put their Judge’s full name as displayed on tabroom when disclosing a round on the 2021-22 NDCA ld wiki. | 9/2/21 |
0 - NavigationTournament: Any | Round: 1 | Opponent: Any | Judge: Any SO - September/October Topic | 9/2/21 |
SO - AC - Trade Secrets v1Tournament: Greenhill Fall Classic | Round: 2 | Opponent: Coppell RM | Judge: Saianurag Karavadi 1ACTheoryInterpretation: Debaters must disclose all constructive positions on open source with highlighting on the 2021-22 NDCA LD wiki within 30 minutes after the round in which they read them. If there is something you don't want to disclose for personal reasons there should be a note and it may be omitted.Violation – ss in doc 1~ level playing field —you'll say people will steal cards, but that's good—it's the only way to truly level the playing field for students such as novices in under-privileged programs who can't bypass paywalled articles.2~ Evidence ethics – open source is the only way to verify pre-round that cards aren't miscut or highlighted or bracketed unethically. That's a voter – maintaining ethical evidence practices is key to being good academics and we should be able to verify you didn't cheat3~ Depth of clash – it allows debaters to have nuanced researched objections to their opponents evidence at a much faster rate, – outweighs cause thinking on your feet is NUQ but the best quality responses come from full access to a case.4~ reciprocity – I disclose so you know all my positions but I go into the round having no idea what the aff isFairness is a voter—debate is a competitive activity that requires objective evaluation.Education is a voter it's the reason schools fund debateAdvantageThe advantage is drug prices,Drug prices are high now, Rajkumar 20S. Vincent Rajkumar, 6-23-2020, "The high cost of prescription drugs: causes and solutions," Blood Cancer Journal, https://www.nature.com/articles/s41408-020-0338-x Lex AT Trade secrets allow middle players to reap profits by hiding information from health plan companies and regulators, Feldman 1Robin Feldman, 6 Oct 2020, "Naked Price and Pharmaceutical Trade Secret Overreach," No Publication, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3426225 Lex AT Three impacts,1~ That uniquely hurts low- and middle- income countries, Yadav 20~Prashant Yadav, 1-24-2020, "When Fewer Is Better: Pharmaceutical Wholesaling and Distribution in Low- and Middle-Income Countries", Center For Global Development, https://www.cgdev.org/blog/when-fewer-better-pharmaceutical-wholesaling-and-distribution-low-and-middle-income-countries, date accessed 9-16-2021~ Lex AT High drug prices leads to use of substandard drugs which cause antimicrobial resistance, WBG 17World Bank Group, March 2017, "DRUG-RESISTANT INFECTIONS A Threat to Our Economic Future", https://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/323311493396993758/pdf/final-report.pdf Lex AT Extinction - generic defense doesn't apply.Srivatsa 17 Kadiyali Srivatsa 1-12-2017 "Superbug Pandemics and How to Prevent Them" https://www.the-american-interest.com/2017/01/12/superbug-pandemics-and-how-to-prevent-them/ (doctor, inventor, and publisher. He worked in acute and intensive pediatric care in British hospitals)Elmer 2~ Court legitimacy is declining which shreds democracy—bipartisan legislation key, Brown 8-25Tristin Brown, 8-25-2021, "The Missing Voices on the Supreme Court Commission," No Publication, https://news.bloomberglaw.com/environment-and-energy/the-missing-voices-on-the-supreme-court-commission Lex AT The plan allows the USFG to fight for price reform, Pierson 8-12Brendan Pierson, 8-12-2021, "PBMs sue U.S. to keep prescription drug prices hidden from public," Reuters, https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/pbms-sue-us-keep-prescription-drug-prices-hidden-public-2021-08-12/ Lex AT Price reform is bipartisan, Lawson 21Alex Lawson, June 17, 2021, "Support for Lowering Drug Prices is Bipartisan," Data For Progress, https://www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2021/6/17/support-for-lowering-drug-prices-is-bipartisan-among-voters-democrats-must-listen Lex AT US democracy is key to stopping extinction,Kendall-Taylor 16 - deputy national intelligence officer for Russia and Eurasia at the National Intelligence Council and a nonresident senior associate in the Human Rights Initiative at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C.. Andrea, 7-15, How Democracy's Decline Would Undermine the International Order, Center for Strategic and International Studies, https://www.csis.org/analysis/how-democracyE28099s-decline-would-undermine-international-order 3~ High Drug Prices pushes people into poverty – our internal is causal.Hoban 10 Rose Hoban 9-13-2010 "High Cost of Medicine Pushes More People into Poverty" https://www.voanews.com/science-health/high-cost-medicine-pushes-more-people-poverty (spent more than six years as the health reporter for North Carolina Public Radio – WUNC, where she covered health care, state health policy, science and research with a focus on public health issues. She left to start North Carolina Health News after watching many of her professional peers leave or be laid off of their jobs, leaving NC with few people to cover this complicated and important topic. ALSO cites Laurens Niens who is a Health Researcher at Erasmus University Rotterdam)Elmer This is a form of pharmaceutical capitalism – exploiting marginalized groups.Lift Mode 17 3-10-2017 "Pharmaceutical Colonialism" https://medium.com/@liftmode/pharmaceutical-colonialism-3-ways-that-western-medicine-takes-from-indigenous-communities-3a9339b4f24f (We at Liftmode.com are a team of professionals from a variety of backgrounds, dedicated to the mission of providing the highest quality and highest purity nutritional health supplements on the market. We look specifically for the latest and most promising research in the fields of cognition enhancement, neuroscience and alternative health supplements, and develop commercial strategies to bring these technologies to the marketplace.)Elmer The Alternative to the Aff isn't no medicine but exploitive medicine – the Plan's orientation is a sequencing strategy to resistance.Ahmed 20 A Kavum Ahmed 6-24-2020 "Decolonizing the vaccine" https://africasacountry.com/2020/06/decolonizing-the-vaccine (A. Kayum Ahmed is Division Director for Access and Accountability at the Open Society Public Health Program in New York and teaches at Columbia University Law School.)Duong+Elmer SolvencyPlan – The member nations of the World Trade Organization ought to reduce intellectual property protections for medicines by implementing thin trade secret protections in the TRIPS agreement.The plan solves price abuse, Feldman 2Robin Feldman, 6 Oct 2020, "Naked Price and Pharmaceutical Trade Secret Overreach," No Publication, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3426225 Lex AT Regulations exist in the status quo—BUT lack of transparency is the only barrier, Feldman 3Robin Feldman, 6 Oct 2020, "Naked Price and Pharmaceutical Trade Secret Overreach," No Publication, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3426225 Lex AT FrameworkThe standard is maximizing expected well being or act hedonistic util.Death is bad and outweighs – a) agents can't act if they fear for their bodily security which constrains every ethical theory, b) it destroys the subject itself – kills any ability to achieve value in ethics since life is a prerequisite which means it's a side constraint since we can't reach the end goal of ethics without lifeUnderview1~ Aff gets 1AR theory to prevent infinite abuse it's DTD to deter future abuse because it's the most severe punishment, no RVIs because you can dump on a 30 sec shell for 6 minutes, and competing interps because it creates a race to the top so we set the best norms and reasonability is arbitrary – aff theory comes first the 1AR is too short to be able to rectify abuse and adequately cover substance.2~ Procedural fairness first a) probability – one round cant alter subjectivity, but it can rectify fairness skews, b) link turns their role of the ballot since it proves we couldn't engage in it and it is exclusionary, c) answers are self-defeating since they presuppose the judge evals them fairly.3~ Imagining extinction is goodJessica Hurley 17, Assistant Professor in the Humanities at the University of Chicago, "Impossible Futures: Fictions of Risk in the Longue Durée", Duke University Press, https://read.dukeupress.edu/american-literature/article/89/4/761/132823/Impossible-Futures-Fictions-of-Risk-in-the-Longue ExtraCapitalism is self-correcting and sustainable.Kaletsky '11 (Anatole, editor-at-large of The Times of London, where he writes weekly columns on economics, politics, and international relationsand on the governing board of the New York-based Institute for New Economic Theory (INET), a nonprofit created after the 2007-2009 crisis to promote and finance academic research in economics, Capitalism 4.0: The Birth of a New Economy in the Aftermath of Crisis, p. 19-21) Transition wars cause extinctionHarris 03. Lee, Analyst – Hoover Institution and Author of The Suicide of Reason, "The Intellectual Origins of America-Bashing", Policy Review, January, http://www.hoover.org/publications/policyreview/3458371.html | 9/18/21 |
SO - AC - Trade Secrets v2Tournament: Greenhill Fall Classic | Round: 4 | Opponent: Strake Jesuit DL | Judge: William Freedman 1ACUnderview1~ Aff gets 1AR theory to prevent infinite abuse it's DTD since the 1AR needs it to make the time investment worth, no RVIs because you can dump on a 30 sec shell for 6 minutes, and competing interps since the 2n can't dump on a reasonability bright-line that excludes only what they did wrong – 1AR theory comes first the 1AR is too short to be able to rectify abuse and adequately cover substance.2~ Here are some counter solvency advocates links in the doc,https://e15initiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/E15-Innovation-LippoldtSchultz-FINAL.pdf 3~ Alternative advocacies that take an action with an agent different than the plan are voting issues,A~ Recirpocity – aff is bound by the topic but you can spec an infinite number of actors which 1~ are all unpredictable and 2~ kill aff ground by mooting all offense.B~ advocacy skills – in the real world we have to debate desirability with the actors we're given, not assume other random people can solve the harms4~ Permissibility and Presumption Affirm 5~ CPs must be both functionally and textually competitive - avoids cheaty CPs that change 1 word in the resolution while maintaining the benefits of good advocacy writing.6~ Plurals can be affirmed by singular instancesZweig 09 ~(Zweig, Eytan). Number-neutral bare plurals and the multiplicity implicature. Linguistics and Philosophy, 32(4), 353–407. 2009. doi:10.1007/s10988-009-9064-3~ TDI 7~ Specific instances prove generics which also means I meet, Cimpian 10Cimpian et al 10 (PhDs – Andrei, Amanda C. Brandone, Susan A. Gelman, Generic statements require little evidence for acceptance but have powerful implications, Cogn Sci. 2010 Nov 1; 34(8): 1452–1482) FramingOught means,https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ought The standard is maximizing expected well being or act hedonistic util.Pleasure and pain are intrinsic value and disvalue – everything else regresses – robust neuroscience.Blum et al. 18 Prefer additionally –1~ Death is bad and outweighs – a) agents can't act if they fear for their bodily security which constrains every ethical theory, b) it destroys the subject itself – kills any ability to achieve value in ethics since life is a prerequisite which means it's a side constraint since we can't reach the end goal of ethics without life2~ Actor spec—governments must use util because they don't have intentions and are constantly dealing with tradeoffs—outweighs since different agents have different obligations—takes out calc indicts since they are empirically denied.Extinction first –1~ Korsgaard agrees, Korsgaard 18Christine M. Korsgaard, 6-12-2018, "Species-Being and the Badness of Extinction and Death," Zeitschrift für Ethik und Moralphilosophie, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42048-018-0002-3 lex AT 2~ – Moral uncertainty – if we're unsure about which interpretation of the world is true – we ought to preserve the world to keep debating about itAdvantageThe advantage is drug prices,Drug prices are high now, Rajkumar 20S. Vincent Rajkumar, 6-23-2020, "The high cost of prescription drugs: causes and solutions," Blood Cancer Journal, https://www.nature.com/articles/s41408-020-0338-x Lex AT Trade secrets allow middle players to reap profits—That takes out innovation, Feldman 1Robin Feldman, 6 Oct 2020, "Naked Price and Pharmaceutical Trade Secret Overreach," No Publication, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3426225 Lex AT Three impacts,1~ That uniquely hurts low- and middle- income countries, Yadav 20~Prashant Yadav, 1-24-2020, "When Fewer Is Better: Pharmaceutical Wholesaling and Distribution in Low- and Middle-Income Countries", Center For Global Development, https://www.cgdev.org/blog/when-fewer-better-pharmaceutical-wholesaling-and-distribution-low-and-middle-income-countries, date accessed 9-16-2021~ Lex AT High drug prices leads to use of substandard drugs which cause antimicrobial resistance, WBG 17World Bank Group, March 2017, "DRUG-RESISTANT INFECTIONS A Threat to Our Economic Future", https://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/323311493396993758/pdf/final-report.pdf Lex AT IP rights prevent certain people from receiving the fruits of their mental labor.====Lindsey and Teles 17 ~Lindsey, Brink, and Steven Michael Teles. The Captured Economy: How the Powerful Enrich Themselves, Slow down Growth, and Increase Inequality. Oxford University Press, 2017.~Lex AKu==== Extinction - generic defense doesn't apply.Srivatsa 17 Kadiyali Srivatsa 1-12-2017 "Superbug Pandemics and How to Prevent Them" https://www.the-american-interest.com/2017/01/12/superbug-pandemics-and-how-to-prevent-them/ (doctor, inventor, and publisher. He worked in acute and intensive pediatric care in British hospitals)Elmer 2~ Court legitimacy is declining which shreds democracy—bipartisan legislation key, Brown 8-25Tristin Brown, 8-25-2021, "The Missing Voices on the Supreme Court Commission," No Publication, https://news.bloomberglaw.com/environment-and-energy/the-missing-voices-on-the-supreme-court-commission Lex AT The plan allows the USFG to fight for price reform, Pierson 8-12Brendan Pierson, 8-12-2021, "PBMs sue U.S. to keep prescription drug prices hidden from public," Reuters, https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/pbms-sue-us-keep-prescription-drug-prices-hidden-public-2021-08-12/ Lex AT Price reform is bipartisan, Lawson 21Alex Lawson, June 17, 2021, "Support for Lowering Drug Prices is Bipartisan," Data For Progress, https://www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2021/6/17/support-for-lowering-drug-prices-is-bipartisan-among-voters-democrats-must-listen Lex AT US democracy is key to stopping extinction,Kendall-Taylor 16 - deputy national intelligence officer for Russia and Eurasia at the National Intelligence Council and a nonresident senior associate in the Human Rights Initiative at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C.. Andrea, 7-15, How Democracy's Decline Would Undermine the International Order, Center for Strategic and International Studies, https://www.csis.org/analysis/how-democracyE28099s-decline-would-undermine-international-order SolvencyPlan – The member nations of the World Trade Organization ought to reduce intellectual property protections for medicines by implementing thin trade secret protections in the TRIPS agreement.The plan solves price abuse, Feldman 2Robin Feldman, 6 Oct 2020, "Naked Price and Pharmaceutical Trade Secret Overreach," No Publication, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3426225 Lex AT Regulations exist in the status quo—BUT lack of transparency is the only barrier, Feldman 3Robin Feldman, 6 Oct 2020, "Naked Price and Pharmaceutical Trade Secret Overreach," No Publication, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3426225 Lex AT Err Aff—lack of transparency makes it impossible to calibrate effective innovation policies, Durkin 21Allison Durkin, June 23, 2021, "Addressing the Risks That Trade Secret Protections Pose for Health and Rights," PubMed Central (PMC), https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8233014/ Lower drug prices don't impact research incentives. Prefer comprehensive studies to pharma propaganda.Dranove et al. 20 ~David Dranove, Walter J. McNerney Professor of Health Industry Management; Faculty Director of PhD Program; Professor of Strategy. September 2, 2020. "Pharma Companies Argue That Lower Drug Prices Would Mean Fewer Breakthrough Drugs. Is That True?" https://insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu/article/pharma-companies-argue-lower-drug-prices-fewer-breakthrough-drugs~~ Dhruv Innovation is low nowFeldman 18 Robin Feldman 18, May your drug price be evergreen, Journal of Law and the Biosciences, Volume 5, Issue 3, December 2018, Pages 590–647, https://doi.org/10.1093/jlb/lsy022 Arthur J. Goldberg Distinguished Professor of Law, Albert Abramson '54 Distinguished Professor of Law Chair, and Director of the Center for Innovation (Study Notes: Presenting the first comprehensive study of evergreening, this article examines the extent to which evergreening behavior—which can be defined as artificially extending the protection cliff—may contribute to the problem. The author analyses all drugs on the market between 2005 and 2015, combing through 60,000 data points to examine every instance in which a company added a new patent or exclusivity.)sid | 9/18/21 |
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