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First Amendment Rights Of Judges And Other Public Employees (Part III out of IV): Caperton v. A.T. Massey Coal Co. (2009)

November 2, 2022
by Angikar Ghosal Case Law

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 ...

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United States v. Washington: Workers’ Compensations and Intergovernmental Immunity

November 2, 2022
by Katie Heath Case Law

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 ...

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Lottery Laws in the United States: Luck of the Draw?

November 1, 2022
by Alex Wang US Law

Occasionally in the United States, a lottery fever descends upon the population with the allure of an unfathomable amount of money for the winner. In the US, the two major lotteries that operate nationwide with certain exceptions are Mega Millions and Pow ...

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Iranian Women Publicly Cutting Hair in Protest of Current Regime

October 30, 2022
by Polyna Uzun International Law

“Women. Life. Freedom.” This repeated mantra represents the height of the Iranian protests that erupted mid-September. At the front of the movement is martyr Mahsa Amini, a 22-year old woman who died following an arrest by the “morality police,” a special ...

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A Deafening Silence: Humanitarian Crisis in Tigray

October 30, 2022
by Eva Liu International Law

In response to the global community’s silence to the humanitarian crisis in Tigray, Ethiopia, surgeon at Tigray’s Ayder Hospital Dr. Kilbrom Gelbreselassie asked, “Where is humanity?”  The war between the Ethiopian government and Tigray People’s Libera ...

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Google LLC v. Oracle

October 29, 2022
by Dianne Kim Case Law

Introduction: Innovation is happening at lightning speed, and technology is arguably the most crucial driver of today’s society. Copyright laws were established for the purpose of preventing intellectual property from being copied as well as encouragin ...

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The Sound of the Law: A Brief Analysis of the Katy Perry “Dark Horse” Lawsuit

October 29, 2022
by Ana Herndon US Law

Lawsuits pertaining to music are often complex and unorthodox in the traditional world of law. Gray vs Perry is one such example. Gray vs Perry is a case that began in 2014 when Christian hip-hop artist Flame (Marcus Gray) sued Pop musician Katy Perry (Ka ...

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Bonta vs. Bezos: California’s Antitrust Suit Against Amazon

October 28, 2022
by Matthew Song US Law

On Sept. 14, 2022, the Attorney General of California, Rob Bonta, filed an antitrust lawsuit in the San Francisco Superior Court against online-retail behemoth Amazon. The lawsuit alleges that Amazon uses its stranglehold over the online retail market in ...

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Fair Admissions to U.S Colleges and Universities: The Supreme Court’s holding on Affirmative Action

October 26, 2022
by Hanrui Huang Case Law

Facts: Affirmative action has long been associated with the civil rights movement and has been an established part of the American system for decades. Yet the merits of affirmative action are fiercely debated both within and across political lines, and ...

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New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen

October 24, 2022
by Zander Pitrus Case Law

Facts: Brandon Koch and Robert Nash, who were both residents of New York that had a general interest in self-defense, applied for unrestricted gun licenses. This license would allow them to carry a handgun on public premises where it is legal, unless p ...

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