* Shannon Hayden Legislatures and courts alike have had trouble keeping up with the ever-evolving technological advances in today’s modern world. Vivek Wadhwa, Laws and Ethics Can’t Keep Pace with Technology, MIT Tech. Rev. (Apr. 15, 2014), https://www.technologyreview.com/s/526401/laws-and-ethics-cant-keep-pace-with-technology/. Technology is developing more rapidly than before, causing gaps between the times that new technology emerges andContinue reading “Is Sexting Child Porn? Maryland Court of Appeals Set to Decide this Term.”
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The Insidious Slippery Slope of Our Freedom of Speech and Expression
*Sumbul Alam Heightened surveillance of noncitizens in the United States has been increasing since the 1980s. See Anil Kalhan, Immigration Surveillance, 74 Md. L. Rev. 1, 11–16 (2014). Throughout the decades, citizens and noncitizens at the border have been subjected to more intrusive questioning, as well as searches and seizures of computer hard drives andContinue reading “The Insidious Slippery Slope of Our Freedom of Speech and Expression”
Study Showing Racial Bias in Death Penalty Sentencing Leads Washington State’s Highest Court to Rule Washington’s Death Penalty Statute Violated State’s Constitution
*Ryan W. Fish The Supreme Court of Washington recently ruled in State v. Gregory that the state’s death penalty was unconstitutional because it was imposed in “an arbitrary and racially biased manner.” State v. Gregory, 427 P.3d 621, 621 (Wash. 2018). This marks the fourth time that Washington has done so. Id. at 626. WashingtonContinue reading “Study Showing Racial Bias in Death Penalty Sentencing Leads Washington State’s Highest Court to Rule Washington’s Death Penalty Statute Violated State’s Constitution”
How Future Generations are Suing the Federal Government for a Habitable Planet
“The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive.” – Donald Trump* ** Joseph Rossi In 2015, a group of twenty-one children filed an official complaint against the United States government, then-President Barack Obama, and several governmental agencies, including the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). JulianaContinue reading “How Future Generations are Suing the Federal Government for a Habitable Planet”
Patients Can Try Experimental Treatments Before They Are Approved by the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) . . . What Could Possibly Go Wrong?: Maryland’s Right to Try Law and the Potential for Federal Preemption.
* Alana Glover Establishing “Right to Try” legislation throughout the country has been a concept that proponents of the law have been working toward for years. What Is Right To Try?, Right To Try, http://righttotry.org/about-right-to-try/, (last visited Nov. 8, 2018). Many proponents of this legislation support the concept of creating alternative options for terminally illContinue reading “Patients Can Try Experimental Treatments Before They Are Approved by the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) . . . What Could Possibly Go Wrong?: Maryland’s Right to Try Law and the Potential for Federal Preemption.”
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