You might enjoy the novel Next, by Michael Crichton (Harvard M.D., author of E.R., Jurassic Park, etc.) Aside from the fact that most of his novels were pretty

You might enjoy the novel Next, by Michael Crichton (Harvard M.D., author of E.R., Jurassic Park, etc.) Aside from the fact that most of his novels were pretty well written, the scary part is how much ahead of his time his ideas consistently were. (His later novels, including Next, did drop slightly in quality as time went on, but Next is still a really interesting look at almost precisely the legal issue that you describe.) The incredibly complete bibliography that you find in his novels of hundreds of citations just tends to prove out that frequently truth really is stranger than fiction. (For example, what if someone genetically engineered advertisements into the backs of sea turtles on barrier reefs?)