Category: Civil Rights
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Food or Friends? A Critical Look at the Rights of Farm Animals in American Law
By Mikhail Perminov — As the agricultural industry expands, 62 percent of the world’s mammal biomass is made up of animals used for farming, while humans make up 34 percent and wild mammals make up only four.[1] According to the…
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Sex Discrimination: Comparable Worth Theory in Bohm v. L. B. Hartz Wholesale Corp
By Jeannie Kim — Sex discrimination in the workplace is a highly controversial issue that has remained relevant for decades, as people hold different definitions of equality and what it should look like. Because sex discrimination cases tend to be…
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The Reverse of What Was Intended: How the Law Treats Reverse Discrimination
By Vivek Kirpalani — Roughly five years ago, Marlean Ames sued her employer for discrimination. According to her performance evaluations, she was a competent employee working to promote the Prison Rape Enforcement Act at the Ohio Department of Youth Services.…
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The Right to Death: How an Examination of Washington v. Glucksberg Reveals the Future of Fundamental Rights
By Jillian Ascher — As of 2024, 8,700 terminally ill Americans since 1997 have chosen death. In January 2024, terminally
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“A Long Step Down the Totalitarian Path” – Justice William O. Douglas: A Short Commentary on Stop-and-Frisk Practices
By Jaden Yun — In landmark case Terry v. Ohio (1968), Martin McFadden, a highly experienced Cleveland police detective dressed in plain clothes, flagged two individuals, Terry and Chilton, as suspicious after noticing that they were “pac[ing] alternately along an…
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At Heart of Intentionality: Reevaluating the Standards for Civil Rights Violations in Context of Organ Transplants
By Aiko Offner — As of March 2025, three plaintiffs are suing the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) across California, Washington, and Tennessee. Randall v. UNOS, Maddox v. UNOS, and Welch v. UNOS are the three ongoing lawsuits against…
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Are We All Americans?: Elk v. Wilkins and Native American Citizenship Before, During, and After Reconstruction
By Carolina Pardo — When Robert E. Lee went to negotiate his terms of surrender at the Appomattox Courthouse on April 9, 1865, he stopped at the sight of a brown man amongst the Union generals. Everyone held their breath…
