Duke’s Undergraduate Law Magazine
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 ...
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 ...
“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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...