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The Most Important Decision No One Is Talking About: What Cummings Means for the Future of Civil Rights
February 27, 2023
By: Amy Cohen, Volume 107 Staff Member In what seems like a never-ending string of catastrophic rulings implicating our nation’s future and individual rights, [1]...
Life-Or-Death Legalese: the Execution of Matthew Reeves and the Dire Consequences of Poorly Targeted Legal Drafting
February 23, 2023
By: Earl Lin, Volume 107 Staff Member It is a well-known phenomenon that lawyers often communicate in their own “peculiar language . . . characterized...
Contractual Conundrum: How Health and Hospital Corporation v. Talevski Has the Potential to Gut Federal Safety Net Legislation
February 21, 2023
By: Grace Worcester, Volume 107 Staff Member The Supreme Court recently heard oral arguments in Health and Hospital Corporation of Marion County v. Talevski, [1]...
Not Flying Solo: How Southwest’s Massive Flight Cancellations Led to Several Class Action Lawsuits
February 20, 2023
By: Kyra Honkanen, Volume 107 Staff Member I. BACKGROUND Making headlines across the country, Southwest Airlines, the largest domestic airline in the U.S., [1] canceled...
The Supreme Court ‘Digs’ in Re Grand Jury: Its Decision to Dismiss the Case and Leave Attorney-Client Privilege in the Three-Circuit Balance
February 17, 2023
By: E. Isabel Park, Volume 107 Staff Member After the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in In re Grand Jury [1] on January 9, 2023...
A Race-Sympathetic Path Forward: Fourth Amendment Seizure Law and the Circuit Split on the Relevance of Race
February 14, 2023
By: Marina Berardino, Volume 107 Staff Member Despite it being well known that an individual’s race impacts his or her perceptions of and experiences with...
Food for Thought: the Emergence of Right-to-Food Legislation in the United States
February 13, 2023
By: Randa Larsen, Volume 107 Staff Member On November 2, 2021, Maine voters did something no other state in the United States has done—they approved...
The “Major Questions” Shackles: Predicting the Outcome of Department of Education v. Brown and a Warning on the Potential Consequences of a Constrained Administrative State
February 9, 2023
By: James Carlton, Volume 107 Staff Member On February 28th, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in two cases that will decide the constitutionality of...
Objectively Reasonable Fraud?: the Supreme Court’s Upcoming Fca Decision Will Resolve Circuit Split Over Scienter Element
February 6, 2023
By: Carly Heying, Volume 107 Staff Member On January 13, 2023, after urging by the U.S. Solicitor General and Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), [1] the...