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The Environmental Costs of Amazon
February 25, 2019
Christina Petsoulis, MJLST Staffer Amazon. One of the 21st century’s most novel inventions. Amazon now dominates e-commerce, with 43% of money spent online coming from...
The First Amendment and Trademarks: Are Offensive Trademarks Registrable?
February 25, 2019
Kelly Brandenburg, MJLST Staffer The Lanham Act, which is the federal statute that governs trademarks, had a disparagement clause , that prohibited the registration of...
A Data Privacy Snapshot: Big Changes, Uncertain Future
February 19, 2019
Holm Belsheim, MJLST Staffer When Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar announced her candidacy for the Presidency, she stressed the need for new and improved digital data...
Supervised Injection Facilities: A Step in the Right Direction to Mitigate the Opioid Crisis or a Violation of Federal Law?
February 19, 2019
Jessica Swanson, MJLST Staffer Plans for the nation’s first supervised injection facility hit a snag earlier this month when Philadelphia’s top prosecutor filed a federal...
Google Fined for GDPR Non-Compliance, Consumers May Not Like the Price
February 19, 2019
Julia Lisi, MJLST Staffer On January 14th, 2019, France’s Data Protection Authority (“DPA”) fined Google 50 million euros in one of the first enforcement actions...
The International Whaling Commission Sans Japan: What It Means for the Whales
February 10, 2019
Allie Jo Mitchell, MJLST Staffer On December 25, 2018 Japan announced that it would withdraw from the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling (“ICRW”)...
Health Supplements: The “Wild West” of FDA Regulations
February 10, 2019
Gabe Branco, MJLST Staffer At some point, we all have taken a multivitamin and/or some type of dietary supplement. They are hard to miss in...
Today in 1923: The Return of the Public Domain
February 10, 2019
Zander Walker, MJLST Staffer It’s 2019 and copyrighted works are finally returning to the public domain for the first time in over twenty years. The...
Corporate Cheat Codes: When Does Video Game Hype Become Securities Fraud?
February 6, 2019
By: Alex Karnopp As production consolidates around a few key players, larger economic growth in the video game industry masks underlying corporate concerns of securities...
Renewable Energy vs. National Parks
February 6, 2019
By: Bethany Anderson That’s what happened in Animal Welfare Institute v. Beech Ridge Energy LLC, where a wind energy facility was curtailed because it stood...