By: Andy Ball In 2017, Texas indicted Crystal Mason, a 43-year-old mother of two, on an illegal voting charge in Tarrant County for voting in the 2016 presidential election despite her protestations that she was unaware she was unable to do so and never would have voted had she known.[1] Last Thursday, March 29th, […]
Guns and Planes: Georgia, Delta, and the Battle Between the First and Second Amendments
By: Dalal Hillou In response to the tragic shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida and the calls for gun control that followed, companies across the United States announced new policies or efforts supporting gun control.[1] Consumers on both sides of the debate threatened to take their business elsewhere and pressured companies into […]
5 Pointz and the Protection of Temporary Art
By: Erik Bartley On February 12, the district court for the Eastern District of New York ruled in favor of twenty-one graffiti artists, stating that the destruction of their art was a violation of the Visual Artists Rights Act (VARA).[1] From 2002 to 2013, Jonathan Cohen headed a group of graffiti artists painting murals on […]
“Keep Faith in Adoption and Foster Care Act” As a Means to Keep LGBTQ Community Out
By: Krista Ellis Currently, about 13,000 children remain in foster care in the state of Georgia, many of those children waiting to be adopted by a loving family.[1] On February 23, 2018, the Senate of the Georgia State Assembly passed a bill to allow child-placing agencies, such as an adoption or foster care agencies, to decline […]
Does the AUMF Cover ISIS?: Addressing the Merits of Doe v. Mattis
By: Carly Nuttall In September 2017, a dual United States and Saudi Arabian citizen (“John Doe”) was captured in Syria by the U.S.-allied Syrian Democratic Forces and turned over to U.S. military custody.[1] Since then, Doe has been detained in Iraq under the allegation that he is an ISIS fighter and therefore an unlawful enemy […]
Biosimilars & “Pay-for-delay” Settlements
By: Samantha Schram Competition in the pharmaceutical industry is fostered by the regulatory frameworks enacted to achieve a balance between innovation and consumer interests. In 1984, Congress enacted the Hatch-Waxman Act in an effort to address the growing cost of health care, as well as the necessity of continued medical innovation.[2] The Hatch-Waxman Act […]
Legal Barriers For Victims Coming Forward in the Wake of #MeToo
By: Hunter Grolman In October of 2017, news broke that over the past three decades, Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein had been accused multiple times of sexually harassing actresses who worked on his movies.[1] As the story unfolded and more details emerged, it became clear that the common element linking the allegations together was an […]
A Change of the Guard: A Look at Where the CFPB is Today
By: David McGee In November 2017, Richard Cordray stepped down as the head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.[1] Before leaving the bureau, Cordray appointed Leandra English as the Deputy Director attempting to keep the directorship outside of Trump’s hands.[2] However, after Cordray stepped down, Trump appointed Mick Mulvaney to temporarily run the bureau […]
A Match Made in Washington: Cryptocurrencies and Regulation
By: Antonio Andrés Franco Congress enacted the federal securities laws in the 1930s to address information asymmetry issues in the nation’s capital markets.[1] However, since passing the Securities Act and Exchange Act, Congress has discovered new patterns of securities fraud and responded by enacting legislation broadly enhancing the enforcement authority of the Securities and […]
The H-2A Agricultural Temporary Workers’ Visa Program Violates the First Amendment Right to Peaceable Assembly
By: Alice Browning H-2A[1] workers do not have the ability to peaceable assembly as protected by the First Amendment because of their vulnerability to employer retaliation, lack of protection against deportation, and general lack of protection against labor exploitation.[2] Nonimmigrant agricultural workers have First Amendment Rights because they are in the United States and […]