Volume 3, Issue 2, Fall 2024
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The Independence of State Constitutional Interpretation and The New Jersey Courts’ Reliance on Federal Doctrines of Liberty
By David Chau — Under the American Federalism system, 51 constitutions coexist. They often overlap and come into conflict with each other over a plethora of issues from governance to individual liberties. As state constitutional law continues to rise in political prominence—specifically after major federal cases like Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (2022), which…
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The Glyphosate Debate: Challenging Federal Preemption of State Failure-to-Warn Claims
By Daniel Zayas — Over the past decade, thousands of cases have reached federal courts to gain redress for injuries that plaintiffs have sustained while using Roundup, a popular pesticide manufactured by American agrochemical corporation Monsanto to kill weeds and insects in farming and landscaping. The flood of lawsuits comes in the wake of a…
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“Best Interest” vs. Strict Scrutiny: The Battle for the Freedom of Speech in Child Custody and CPS Cases
By Kaylee Kasper — As it stands, the US legal system promotes a largely hands-off approach to regulating the internal affairs of families. Parents have the liberty to determine how they intend to raise their children, dictating their day-to-day activities and often aligning their children under their own preferred religious beliefs, cultures, and value systems.…
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The Puzzle of Federal Indian Law: The Doctrine of Preemption in Oklahoma v. Castro-Huerta
By Carolina Pardo — In his concurring opinion in United States v. Lara (2004), Justice Thomas writes, “Federal Indian policy is, to say the least, schizophrenic.” Justice Thomas aptly characterized Federal Indian law as contradictory and inconsistent. Since Christopher Columbus stepped on the sands of the Bahamas in 1492, the relationship between Indigenous people and…
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The Delta Between Burden of Proof of Fear and Likelihood for Asylum Seekers
By Sanjana Kumar — This article explores the disparity between the evidentiary standards imposed on asylum seekers under the Refugee Act of 1980 and the international framework in the 1967 United Nations Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees it was intended to emulate. It examines how statutory and judicial interpretations of the act have…
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Hypocrisy vs. Sovereignty: Accounting for the Colonial Vestiges of Public Law 83-280 in Alaska
By Dane Lester — Over the past three hundred years, the United States has expanded from a series of British royalist colonies on America’s East Coast to a fully-fledged democratic nation taking up the third-largest land area of any country in the world. As a result of its conquest, the U.S. claimed jurisdiction over the…
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Cutting the Line: Judiciary Folly and Federal Telemedicine
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To Infinity at the Expense of the Pond
By Jaylee Witcher — Just barely within the borders of the United States, Boca Chica Beach is home to a plethora of species, including shorebirds. Neatly within its silt and sand, these birds nestle their eggs, relying on the Texas…
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Should Homelessness be a Crime? A Critique of City of Grants Pass v. Johnson
By Vinayak Menon — By July 24, 2018, Debra Blake was banned from entering every park in the small city of Grants Pass, Oregon. Her offense was trying to find a place to sleep. A decade earlier, Blake had lost…
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NFL Tackled By Antitrust Litigation: Route to Renegotiation of Streaming Deals
By Danielle Williams — In 2024, the NFL had its most-watched Week 1 on record, averaging 21 million viewers per game. The growing popularity of fantasy leagues and sports betting has given fans more reasons to root for teams outside…
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The Price for Plastic: How Oil Companies Float Through Anticompetitive Suits
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How to Prove Mental Illness in the Eyes of the Court
By Eunice Lee — Kahler v. Kansas, decided by the U.S. Supreme Court on March 23, 2020, ruled that the Due Process Clause does not require Kansas to adopt an insanity test that aims to understand a defendant’s ability to…
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A Tale of Two States: Tackling Big Tech Across the Atlantic
By Justin Murdock — The Digital Markets Act (DMA) and its counterpart, the Digital Services Act (DSA), form the cornerstone of the European Commission’s efforts to regulate the rapidly evolving digital landscape. While the DMA specifically targets major tech companies…
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The Discriminatory Adversity in Defining “Adverse Employment Action”
By Kelly Kim — Wanza Cole, an African American woman, worked as an educator at the Wake County Board of Education in North Carolina from 1992-2015, where she eventually became a school principal in 2007. After claims of inadequate evaluation…
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The Real Lesson of Texas v United States
By Anna Ferris — In 2010, National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius came before the Supreme Court seeking to clarify key tenets of the Affordable Care Act (commonly known as Obamacare). First, the Court was called to decide whether…
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