Booze on the Loose: A Critique of Washington State’s Liquor Privatization
By: Brooks Inciardi* Abstract At the end of Prohibition in the United States, the nation debated how it should regulate liquor. American philanthropist John D. Rockefeller commissioned a study on...
View ArticleA Controversial Provision: Should Federal Courts Allow Plaintiffs Under the...
By: John M. Blackwell III* Abstract In 1975, the United States Congress passed the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act (“MMWA”) with the goal of alleviating the problem of sellers failing to honor their given...
View ArticleThe Never-Changing Assessment: Pennsylvania’s Broken Property Tax System
By: Nicholas A. Baker* Abstract Nearly every county in Pennsylvania uses the base-year system to assess properties for purposes of ad valorem property taxation. Because counties infrequently reassess...
View ArticleProtections of (Im)mobile Home Owners from the Consequences of (Im)mobile...
By: Kenneth Baar* Abstract Roughly three million households in the United States own mobile homes that are on rented spaces in mobile home parks. Investments in mobile home parks are highly...
View ArticleCrisis Standards of Care and Triage: Medico-Legal Conundrums
By: George P. Smith, II* Abstract This Article investigates the character, nature, and application of Crisis Standards of Care (“CSC”) in national emergency preparedness plans. Ideally, these standards...
View ArticleLawyers’ Rare Privilege of Litigating in the Media
By: Douglas R. Richmond* Abstract Conventional wisdom has long held that high-profile litigation is often decided both in court and in the court of public opinion and that harnessing the power of the...
View ArticleWe Need An Answer! Hearst Newspapers Calls Out the Supreme Court For Not...
By: Abigail Roos* Abstract American society highly values protecting intellectual property from infringement. The Copyright Act of 1976 (the “Copyright Act”) protects a wide range of expressive and...
View ArticleThe Lesser of Two Evils: Whether the United States is Legally Justified in...
By: Drew W. Weglarz* Abstract Over the past five years, the global community has seen a rapid influx of military hostility. Now, probably more than ever, people fear a nuclear holocaust or a third...
View ArticleEntering the Twilight Zone: Examining the President’s Authority to enact the...
By: Katherine E. Owens* Abstract In May 2022, President Biden made the Indo-Pacific region the focus of a historic foreign policy initiative, the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF). The IPEF is a...
View ArticleWhen Teamwork Warrants a Red Card: An Analysis of Concerted Action when...
By: Anthony J. Wisdo* Abstract U.S. antitrust law is the ultimate protector of free market competition. The backbone of U.S. antitrust law is the Sherman Antitrust Act. Section 1 of the Sherman Act...
View ArticleAbuse Beyond Title IX: Advancing Laws and Policies to Combat Coaching Abuse...
By: Katie Jean* Abstract Outsiders see college athletics as a privileged environment. Student-athletes receive scholarships, monetized fame, and a chance to compete professionally. However, outsiders...
View ArticleThe Question Not Presented: Government and Social Media Corruption After...
By: Richard W. Painter* Abstract The Supreme Court in Murthy v. Missouri in 2024 dismissed a suit by multiple plaintiffs alleging that the Biden Administration’s efforts to persuade social media...
View ArticleThe Camouflaged Canary in the Coalmine: The Seeming Erosion of Judicial...
By: LTJG Russell Spivak and LCDR Adam Aliano* Abstract Jurists broadly defer to the expertise of those in uniform to opine on not only life in uniform, but also the particular operational requirements...
View ArticleIn Support of Free Speech on Food Production
By: Nicole J. Ligon* Abstract In May 2024, Florida and Alabama became the first states to ban the production and sale of lab-grown meat. Driven by a desire to protect the traditional agriculture...
View ArticleAI-Augmented Targeting and Reining in the Law of the Horse
By: Captain Christopher J. Lin* Abstract Coined by Judge Frank H. Easterbrook as a rather tongue-in-cheek concept, the “law of the horse” broadly suggests that existing general legal principles can...
View ArticleWhy Capping the House at 435 is Unconstitutional
By: Anoo Dinesh Vyas* Abstract Expanding the House of Representatives could offer several benefits, as noted by various public policy experts. It could make gerrymandering more difficult and mitigate...
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