De Novo
Articles
Roe v. a Technicality: How Procedural Decisions Will Bring About the End to Constitutionally Protected Abortion Rights
November 29, 2021
By: Leah Reiss, Volume 106 Staff Member For forty-eight years now, the Supreme Court has recognized that the Constitution protects “a woman’s [1] right to...
Roe and Casey Under Attack: Will the Supreme Court Overturn Landmark Abortion Precedent in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization?
November 26, 2021
By: Theresa Green, Volume 106 Staff Member On December 1, 2021, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments for Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization...
Categorically Insufficient: the U.S. Supreme Court Must Find Attempted Hobbs Act Robbery Is Not a "Crime of Violence" Under 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)(3)(A).
November 24, 2021
By: Michael Van Ryn, Volume 106 Staff Member In United States v. Taylor, the U.S. Supreme Court is presented with the question of whether an...
Locked, Loaded, and Concealed—The Supreme Court's First Gun Rights Case in a Decade
November 22, 2021
By: Michael Kinane, Volume 106 Staff Member INTRODUCTION On November 3, 2021, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in New York State Rifle & Pistol...
The Canine Magistrate: the Fourth Amendment Implications of Weak Alerts to Narcotics in Vehicle Searches
November 19, 2021
By: Chase Slasinski, Volume 106 Staff Member The use of dogs in policing is a practice that has existed in the United States for over...
Game of Phones: the Irs's Outdated Information Technology Is Causing Service and Legal Issues for the U.S. Taxpayer
November 17, 2021
By: Alec Lybik, Volume 106 Staff Member As a law student, I thought I was done with math. Unfortunately, my struggles in eighth-grade algebra came...
ICWA's "Active Efforts" Standard During the COVID-19 Pandemic
November 15, 2021
By: Molly Nelson-Regan, Volume 106 Staff Member [1] Congress enacted the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 [2] (ICWA) out of concern for the “abusive...
Curtailing Internet Exceptionalism: Frances Haugen's Call to Amend Section 230 and Hold Facebook Accountable for Its Algorithmic Harm
November 11, 2021
By: Ellison Snider, Volume 106 Staff Member Last month, Frances Haugen, former product manager at Facebook, testified to the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and...
Can a Non-Secret Be a State Secret? Examining State Secrets Privilege in United States v. Zubaydah
November 3, 2021
By: Kimberly Ortleb, Volume 106 Staff Member On October 6, 2021, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments for United States v. Zubaydah, [1] which presents...
Rising to Three Occasions: the Supreme Court Grapples with How to Count Prior Convictions in the Acca Context
November 1, 2021
By: Haley Wallace, Volume 106 Staff Member The Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA) [1] was enacted to severely punish society’s worst criminal offenders. [2] Congress...