10Oct

Forever 21 Lives! Bankrupt Doesn’t Mean Closure

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By Skyler Shields “Forever 21 is closing! Where am I going to get my clothes?” exclaim shoppers across the United States. Luckily, the answer is that you can probably still get your clothes where you used to – Forever 21. On September 29, 2019, Forever 21, the fifth largest specialty retailer in the United States,[1] […]

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9Oct

Supreme Court Hears Oral Arguments on Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity Protections

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By Chris Flurry A Michigan funeral director, a Georgia county bureaucrat, and the family surviving a New York skydiving instructor represent a series of litmus tests brought before the Supreme Court of the United States on Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2019.[1] The Supreme Court heard oral arguments for three cases, all of which generally consider whether […]

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4Oct

Hustle the Hustlers: Anti-SLAPP and the Film Medium

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By Grayson O’Saile With art comes controversy, and the movie Hustlers, starring Jennifer Lopez, is no exception. Hustlers, released September 13, 2019, is a crime drama, focusing on a group of strippers who drug Wall Street clientele in order to steal and abscond with the clients’ money.[1] While seemingly fantastical, the movie is based on […]

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2Oct

Federal Judge Blocks Trump Administration from Detaining Migrant Children Indefinitely

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By Madison Woschkolup On September 27, 2019, U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee for the Central District of California blocked the Trump administration from enacting a new regulation that would allow migrant children to be held in detention centers indefinitely.[1] The regulation, which is several hundred pages long, was proposed in Fall 2018 and would specifically […]

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1Oct

The Modern War on Terrorism: Utilizing Social Media to Promote the Terrorist Agenda

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On June 18, 2019, thirty-nine year old Mediha Salkicevic appeared before Judge Catherine Perry in St. Louis, Missouri and was sentenced to seventy-eight months in prison.[1] Four years prior, Salkicevic was involved in a conspiracy to provide resources to Abdullah Ramo Pazara,[2] a member of the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham/Syria (ISIS/ISIL).[3] Such resources […]

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27Sep

Shedding Their Rights at the Schoolhouse Gate: How a North Carolina Cheer Team is Renewing a Decades-Old Debate

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By Kyle Brady Known for clever cheers and creative school spirit, high school cheerleaders rarely garner national attention, spark protests, or tap into the highly polarized political fabric of our country. One North Carolina squad, however, managed to accomplish this incredible feat with one photo. What was so scandalous and controversial about this photo? The […]

Tags: Free Speech Hazelwood Morse v. Frederick North Carolina North Stanly High School political speech student speech Tinker

24Sep

Band-Aids, Baby Products, and Blatant Deception: Johnson & Johnson’s $572M Oklahoma Opioid Epidemic Verdict

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By Mary-Kathryn Hawes As Walter Bender, Deputy Sheriff in Montgomery County, Ohio stated: “[O]pioids reach every part of society: blue collar, white collar, everybody. It’s nonstop. It’s every day. And it doesn’t seem like it’s getting any better.”[1] It is estimated that forty-six people die from opioid overdoses involving prescription opioids every day, with methadone, […]

Tags: Johnson & Johnson nuisance Oklahoma opioid crisis opioids public nuisance Tort

20Sep

“Take the Marijuana Out of It; It’s Not Marijuana:” Law Enforcement, Farmers, Smokable Hemp, and Probable Cause in North Carolina

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By Katharine Batchelor On August 20, 2019, the North Carolina House passed its version of Senate Bill 315, the North Carolina Farm Act of 2019, sending it to the North Carolina Senate for a vote.[1] The bill, intended originally to expand the industrial hemp industry in North Carolina, revises the definition of “hemp product” to […]

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17Sep

Trump Wins Again on the “Shadow Docket”

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By Elliott Riches On September 11, the Trump Administration received a major victory in the Supreme Court.[1] No, the Court hadn’t granted certiorari or heard oral argument; this win came in what the legal community refers to as the “shadow docket.”[2] Most law students or legal practitioners will likely be familiar with the Supreme Court’s […]

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13Sep

The Fight over a Four-Letter Word

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By Laura Jordan A few years ago, the federal government dissected a certain four-letter word.[1] It was prodded to see if it would “shock . . . the sense of truth, decency, or propriety” of the American public.[2] It was weighed to determine if it would “giv[e] offense to the conscience or moral feelings.”[3] And […]

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10Sep

Will Loss of Chance Doctrine Lose its Chance in North Carolina?

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by Paul Fangrow Loss of chance is a hot topic in recent American medical malpractice law. In states where it is accepted, loss of chance is a cause of action in medical malpractice cases that asserts a physician’s negligence reduced a patient’s chance for a better outcome or increased their risk of future harm, when […]

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6Sep

Of Subtweets and Bedbugs: Libel in the Age of Social Media

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By Greg Berman Controversy erupted last week after a George Washington University professor, Dave Karpf, tweeted a joke at New York Times columnist Bret Stephens’s expense. Quoting an 8-word post about a bedbug infestation in the Times’ newsroom, Karpf joked that “[t]he bedbugs are a metaphor. The bedbugs are Bret Stephens.”[1] Although this tweet did […]

Tags: actual malice bedbugs Bret Stephens Communications Decency Act Defamation Facebook First Amendment Free Speech Intentional Torts libel New York Times v. Sullivan Section 230 single publication rule slander Tort Twitter

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