Duke’s Undergraduate Law Magazine
Facts of the Case In 1981, Lynn Goldsmith, a famous photographer of rock stars and the like, published a would-be famous image she took of Prince. Newsweek had commissioned Goldsmith to photograph him as his alluring style of music and performance ente ...
For fifty years, Title IX has prohibited sex discrimination in education. It covers women and men, girls and boys, and staff and students in any educational institution or program that receives federal funds. These include local school districts, colleges ...
On Sept. 8, 2022, the longest reigning British monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, passed away, leaving the future of the monarchy in a vulnerable state. The institution of the British monarchy dates back to the ninth century AD with Saxon King Echbert, the ...
Background In 2018, North Carolina created Senate Bill 824, which required that all citizens have with them “one of ten forms of authorized photographic identification” in order to vote. The North Carolina section of the National Association for the Ad ...
Background In 2012, U.S. citizen Azzam Rahim’s relatives sued the Palestinian Authority for allegedly imprisoning, torturing, and killing Rahim. The Torture Victim Protection Act protects individuals from torture and killings against other “individuals ...
North Carolina has long been the battleground for gerrymandering litigation. Harper v. Hall is the most recent example, in which voters sued legislators and the state’s elections board over the congressional map for the 2020 election. They claimed it viol ...
Facts of the Case In February of 2015, National Association of African American Owned Media (NAAAOM) and Entertainment Studios Networks (ESN), both owned by Byron Allen, filed suit against Comcast Corp. ESN and NAAAOM are “100% African-American owned” ...
Background The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) declared that the opioid crisis was a public health emergency in 2017. According to the CDC, the total number of fatal drug overdoses has increased from 70,000 people in 2017 to 92,000 p ...
A case that affirmed stricter regulations on the actions of a judge was Caperton v. A.T. Massey Coal Co. The ruling from this case emphasized that the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment requires judges to recuse themselves not only when actual ...
Background Fifty-four million gallons of radioactive waste sit underground at the Hanford site, a federal nuclear production site in Washington state that operated between 1944 and 1989. As part of the Manhattan project, the Hanford site produced subst ...