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…
Category: U.S. Supreme Court
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
Written By: Jaime Weida Edited By: Dean Deborah Challener Forty-one years ago, in World-Wide Volkswagen Corp. v. Woodson, 444 U.S. 286 (1980), the United States…
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,…
Check Your Privilege at the Bar: How the New York Bar Exam’s Discrimination Against Out-of-State Test Takers Violates the Privileges and Immunities Clause of the 14th Amendment
Written By: Melanie Mitchell One final hurdle awaits law school graduates after obtaining their degree before beginning a career in the legal field: passing the…
Van Buren v. United States: Does a Police Officer Violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act if the Officer is Authorized to Access Certain Information on a Computer but the Officer Accesses the Information for an Improper Purpose?
Written By: Katelyn Pearson The United States Supreme Court on November 30, 2020 heard oral arguments of an appeal from the Eleventh Circuit. Nathan Van…
A Student’s Perspective of Graham v. Connor and Excessive Force Claims
Written By: Benjiman Blakely It is, perhaps, timely to resurface the United States Supreme Court decision in the 1989 case Graham v. Connor given recent…
