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 ...
First Amendment Rights Of Judges And Other Public Employees (Part III out of IV): Caperton v. A.T. Massey Coal Co. (2009)
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 ...
United States v. Washington: Workers’ Compensations and Intergovernmental Immunity
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 ...
Lottery Laws in the United States: Luck of the Draw?
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 ...
Iranian Women Publicly Cutting Hair in Protest of Current Regime
“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 ...
A Deafening Silence: Humanitarian Crisis in Tigray
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 ...
Google LLC v. Oracle
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 ...
The Sound of the Law: A Brief Analysis of the Katy Perry “Dark Horse” Lawsuit
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 ...
Bonta vs. Bezos: California’s Antitrust Suit Against Amazon
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 ...
Fair Admissions to U.S Colleges and Universities: The Supreme Court’s holding on Affirmative Action
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 ...