Author: ec3928
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The Price for Plastic: How Oil Companies Float Through Anticompetitive Suits
By Tanner McNamara — The plastic that makes your water bottles, the gasoline that fuels your transportation, the natural gas that heats your house—if one company controls so many aspects of oil, a material so entrenched in our lives, how can they possibly be controlled? Since the 1940s, major oil companies within the United States and…
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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 recognize that their crime was morally wrong. The Court claimed that the Kansas law at…
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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 labeled as “gatekeepers,” its implementation has sparked debates and critiques regarding its approach to competition…
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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 processes, Cole was transferred to work at the school’s central office in 2015. She sued…
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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 or not Congress’s taxing and spending powers allowed it to constitutionally impose tax penalties on…
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What Constitutes a Human life?: Religious Language in Alabama’s Abortion Ruling
By Rida Mian — On February 16, 2024, the Supreme Court of Alabama released the controversial ruling that an extrauterine embryo is considered a person in the context of the law. The ruling came from an appeals case in which three couples (the LePages, the Fondes, and the Aysennes) sued The Center for Reproductive Medicine…