* 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”
The Annual Filing Season Program: A Brief Examination of AICPA v. IRS and the Resulting Regulations on Tax Return Preparers
*Brenton Conrad I. Introduction On August 14, 2018, the United States Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) Annual Filing Season Program, which was enacted to serve as a means of combatting the growing concerns involving fraudulent tax returns. AICPA v. IRS, No. 16-5256, 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 22583 (D.C.Continue reading “The Annual Filing Season Program: A Brief Examination of AICPA v. IRS and the Resulting Regulations on Tax Return Preparers”
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”
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