In 1994, President Bill Clinton signed into law the Public Safety and Recreational Firearms Use Protection Act, which banned “semiautomatic assault weapons”- which were defined to include 18 different guns and all firearms with two or more “military characteristics.” Examples of “military characteristics” are bayonet mounts and flash suppressors. There... Read More »
The Food and Drug Administration has recently approved a new treatment for Alzheimer’s disease. The drug is the first in 18 years to receive FDA approval for the treatment of Alzheimer’s, but has attracted controversy over its efficacy and high cost. Experts estimate that the drug could cost the federal... Read More »
The organization Airlines for America, or A4A, along with a coalition of other industry partners, have sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland regarding the recent uptick in aggressive and unruly passenger behaviors. The letter which was sent early Monday urges the Department of Justice to prosecute unruly passengers.... Read More »
The U.S. Supreme Court officially requested an opinion from President Biden's Administration regarding the race-conscious undergraduate admissions policies at Harvard University. The issue at hand is whether or not the Supreme Court should hear the challenges to the ivy league school's admissions programs that consider an applicant's race in the... Read More »
A New York doctor has been sentenced to nearly five years behind bars because of his role in a kickback scheme that was centered around a potent fentanyl-based spray, Subsys. Jeffrey Goldstein 51, of New Rochelle, New York, was one of several doctors involved in a conspiracy that violated the... Read More »
The federal government has joined a 2015 lawsuit filed by a whistleblower against a string of California skilled nursing homes. The lawsuit accuses the owner of several nursing homes of illegally participating in a kickback scheme that resulted in millions of dollars of fraudulently secured funds. The case came to... Read More »
In an attempt to prevent defense attorneys from scoping out information about prospective jurors on the Internet, one California court adopted the general procedure of withholding their names in felony cases. An appeals court ruled that such a general practice could violate a defendant’s constitutional rights and should only be... Read More »
The First Amendment protects free speech. However, the line becomes tricky when it comes to social media. Can social media platforms regulate what you say or is what you say on the platform protected by the First Amendment? Social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, etc. will take down any content... Read More »
The US Supreme Court has rejected a challenge by Republican state governors that would have invalidated the individual mandate included in the Affordable Care Act (ACA), otherwise known as Obamacare. The court ruled that the parties challenging the law lacked a legally required basis to sue, known as standing. This... Read More »
On June 21, 1989, the Supreme Court voted to uphold a protestor’s right to burn the American flag for the sake of protesting. In the Texas v. Johnson case, the court voted 5-4 in favor of Gregory Lee Johnson, who burned the American flag during a protest at the Republican... Read More »
The idiom “timing is everything” maintains that success is directly related to when something happens. In the case of ex-President Trump’s defense in a defamation suit filed by one woman who is accusing him of rape, his timing may well lead to his success. Because Trump’s allegedly defamatory remarks were... Read More »
In yet another decision that displays the justices’ commitment to protecting religious freedoms, the US Supreme Court ruled that the City of Philadelphia could not refuse to work with a Catholic agency that refused to place children with same-sex foster parents. The case, titled Fulton v. Catholic Social Services, was... Read More »
Grammy award-winning Superstar Jay-Z is suing popular hip hop photographer Jonathan Mannion for selling iconic images and prints of the rapper. According to the lawsuit, Mannion is profiting off the image and likeness of the rapper without Jay-Z’s consent. Mannion first worked with Jay-Z after he photographed the cover of... Read More »
In his opening remarks to the Senate Armed Services Committee on the President’s 2022 Budget Proposal, the nation’s new Secretary of Defense, Lloyd J. Austin, said that he has already received recommendations from an independent commission to address the horrific problems related to the sexual abuse of both women and... Read More »
The Department of Justice has asked the Supreme Court to reexamine the case of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in an effort to reinstate the death sentence for him. On April 15, 2013, Tsarnaev and his older brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev attacked the Boston community at the finish line of the annual Boston Marathon.... Read More »
