Mahanoy Area School District v. B.L.: Can a School Regulate a Student’s Off-Campus Speech?
Written by: Katelyn Pearson Summary of the Case B.L. was a student at Mahanoy Area High School in Pennsylvania, where she made the junior varsity…
Month: April 2021
Shot and Free but Still Seized: Torres v. Madrid‘s Clarification of Fourth Amendment Seizures of Persons
Written by: McKenna Stone Cloud For the past thirty years, the legal community has been puzzled over what amounts to a “seizure” of a person…
If You’re There, You’re There: A “New-ish” Development in Personal Jurisdiction Forty-One Years After World-Wide Volkswagen v. Woodson
Forty-one years ago, in World-Wide Volkswagen Corp. v. Woodson, 444 U.S. 286 (1980), the United States Supreme Court found that an automobile manufacturer retailer and…
Sense & Severability: Barr v. American Association of Political Consultants & The Little-Known Key to the Affordable Care Act’s Future
Written by: Samuel Sturgis By now, everyone should be familiar with the Affordable Care Act. How could they not be? For years since its enactment,…
The Rollback of Agency Deference
Written by D. Nathan Smith In King v. Miss. Military Dept., 245 So.3d 404 (Miss. 2018), the Mississippi Supreme Court, in one fell swoop, stated…
GameStop and the Phenomenon of Expressive Trading
Written by: John P. Anderson In a prior post, I reflected on evidence that motives other than profit seeking may be driving some of the recent…
