16Nov

Are “Deliberate” Steps Still Required for Today’s Tech-Savvy Children?

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By Kyle Brantley It’s that time of day. Your child is positioning the antenna just right in order to catch their favorite broadcast TV show. No, that doesn’t sound quite right. They are actually dialing up the old FM radio for their favorite weekly jamboree! No, that’s definitely not happening. Instead, kids today consume their […]

11Nov

Keep it in the family: the problems facing small family farms and how the Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act can help owners hold on to generational homesteads

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By: Mathias A. Young Small family farms are in dire straits. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service found that in 2019, between sixty-two and eighty-one percent of small family farms were operating at a “high risk level.”[1] This problem is worse for farmers of color, who for decades have faced discrimination in applying […]

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9Nov

Broken Promises: The Afghan Special Immigrant Visa Program and Refugee Crisis

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By Laura Merriman Over the twenty-year war in Afghanistan, tens of thousands of Afghan nationals risked their lives to assist the US.[1] In exchange, the US offered them a humanitarian visa known as a Special Immigrant Visa (“SIV”), to safely resettle in the US as lawful permanent residents.[2] However, as the US began withdrawing from […]

Tags: Afghan Allies Petition Act immigration law Special Immigrant Visa

4Nov

Selective Service Registration: Stumbling Over the Final Hurdle to Gender Equality in the U.S. Military

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By: Joshua Plummer On September 22, 2021, the Senate Armed Services Committee introduced S. 2792, the “National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022” (“2022 NDAA”), to the first session of the 117th Congress.[1] Buried in the 998 pages of the extensive $768 billion bill, which includes everything from the acquisition of combat aircraft to […]

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2Nov

Checkmate? Gaprindashvili Sues Netflix Over a False Statement in the Queen’s Gambit Series

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By Hanna Diamond I. Introduction Nona Gaprindashvili, “a pioneer of women’s chess,” is making the first move and suing Netflix over a false statement made in the Netflix series, The Queen’s Gambit (the “Series”). [1] The Series was based on a fictional novel, The Queen’s Gambit (the “Novel”),[2] about an “American chess prodigy Beth Harmon,” […]

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29Oct

Viral for the Wrong Reasons: Credit or Copyright for Short Choreographic Works?

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By: Maryclaire M. Farrington Credit or copyright? That is the question. On September 25, 2019, fourteen-year-old Jalaiah Harmon created a short, twenty-second dance, dubbed “the Renegade,” and posted it on Instagram.[1] In the weeks after, the video racked up about 13,000 views, inspiring other Instagrammers to recreate the dance and post it themselves.[2] By October, […]

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26Oct

Same Hit, Different Day—Google Fails to Learn from Microsoft’s Antitrust Blunder

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By Madison Boyer Since 2017, Google has racked up over $8 billion in fines from the European Union (“EU”) for antitrust violations.[1] The heftiest is a $5 billion (€4.34 billion) fine—the largest fine ever imposed by the European Commission (“EC”) for an antitrust violation.[2] The EC is the primary enforcer of EU competition laws.[3] In […]

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21Oct

What’s Mine is Yours: Income Sharing Agreements in Higher Education

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By: Christian Schweitzer The runaway freight train that is the American student debt crisis continues to accelerate, as borrowers now owe a collective $1.73 trillion in debt.[1] As President Biden and Congress press forward with retroactive reforms to cancel debt for certain limited classes of borrowers,[2] it seems worthwhile to return to conversations about forward-looking […]

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20Oct

The Entirely New Landscape of College Athletics: An Overview

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By Daniel Cundiff College athletics has undergone a seismic shift. For decades, athletes participating in Division I college athletics were unable to receive compensation for the use of their name, image, and likeness (“NIL”), and they risked becoming ineligible to participate in their sport for doing so.[1] Today, National Collegiate Athletic Association (“NCAA”) guidelines allow […]

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14Oct

Constitutional Cussing

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By: Joseph C. Johnson On May 5, 2019, Dillon Webb was pulled over by a sheriff’s deputy in Columbia County, Florida, for a sticker that read “I EAT A*S” on the rear window of his truck.[1] Webb was arrested under a Florida obscenity statute after refusing to alter the sticker, and the officers that made […]

Tags: Constitutional Law First Amendment Free Speech obscenity law Qualified Immunity

7Oct

The Overregulation of Syringe Service Programs: How West Virginia Legislators Are Exacerbating the Opioid Crisis on the Battleground of the Epidemic

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By Emily Wilmink While the COVID-19 pandemic has consumed the field of public health since its onset in 2020, substance use disorder and the opioid crisis have continually plagued the United States for many years. Substance use disorder is a disease that “leads to an inability to control the use of a legal or illegal […]

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5Oct

Current Effort to Combat Potential Danger of Quantum Computing

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By: Inyoung Park Many companies, large or start-up, are recognizing the potential of quantum technology.[1] Quantum technology is based on quantum mechanics that study the movements of subatomic particles.[2] Unlike other particles that follow Newtonian physics, the quantum system differs in that the particles can be in superposition and exhibit entanglement, for example.[3] Superposition means […]

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Are “Deliberate” Steps Still Required for Today’s Tech-Savvy Children?

Keep it in the family: the problems facing small family farms and how the Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act can help owners hold on to generational homesteads

Broken Promises: The Afghan Special Immigrant Visa Program and Refugee Crisis

Selective Service Registration: Stumbling Over the Final Hurdle to Gender Equality in the U.S. Military

Checkmate? Gaprindashvili Sues Netflix Over a False Statement in the Queen’s Gambit Series

Viral for the Wrong Reasons: Credit or Copyright for Short Choreographic Works?

Same Hit, Different Day—Google Fails to Learn from Microsoft’s Antitrust Blunder

What’s Mine is Yours: Income Sharing Agreements in Higher Education

The Entirely New Landscape of College Athletics: An Overview

Constitutional Cussing

The Overregulation of Syringe Service Programs: How West Virginia Legislators Are Exacerbating the Opioid Crisis on the Battleground of the Epidemic

Current Effort to Combat Potential Danger of Quantum Computing

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