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The “Circuit Split” That Wasn’t
October 25, 2020
Sam Sylvan, MJLST Staffer Earlier this year, the Fourth Circuit punted on an opportunity to determine the constitutional “boundaries of the private search doctrine in...
Watching an APA Case Gestate Live!
October 25, 2020
Parker von Sternberg, MJLST Staffer On October 15 th the FCC published an official Statement of Chairman Pai on Section 230. Few particular statutes have...
Extracting Favors: Fossil-Fuel Companies Are Using the Pandemic to Lobby for Regulatory Rollbacks and Financial Bailouts
October 17, 2020
Christopher Cerny, MJLST Staffer In the waning months of World War II, Winston Churchill is quoted, perhaps apocryphally, as saying, “[n]ever let a good crisis...
Hailstorms in Baltimore: The Fourth Circuit’s Opportunity to Create Oversight and Accountability for a Secretive Police Technology
October 17, 2020
Jordan Hughes, MJLST Staffer The past several months have once again shone a spotlight on the difficulty of holding police and law enforcement accountable for...
A Cold-Blooded Cure: How COVID-19 Could Decimate Already Fragile Shark Populations
October 10, 2020
Emily Kennedy, MJLST Staffer Movies like Jaws, Deep Blue Sea, and The Meg demonstrate that fear of sharks is commonplace. In reality, shark attacks are...
It’s a Small World, and Getting Smaller: The Need for Global Health Security
October 10, 2020
Madeline Vavricek, MJLST Staffer The word “unprecedented” has been used repeatedly by every news organization and government official throughout the last several months. Though the...
Nineteen Eighty Fortnite
October 3, 2020
Valerie Eliasen, MJLST Staffer The Sixth and Seventh Amendments affords people the right to a trial by jury. Impartiality is an essential element of a...
The EARN IT Act Has Earned Sex Workers’ Criticism: How a Bill Regulating Internet Speech Will Harm an Under-Resourced Community Often Overlooked by Policymakers
October 3, 2020
Ingrid Hofeldt, MJLST Staffer In March of 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic swept across the nation, Senator Lindsey Graham introduced the EARN IT Act (EIA)...