Examining Clinton's Emailgate: The Legal Ambiguity Behind Handling Classified Information

Examining Clinton’s Emailgate: The Legal Ambiguity Behind Handling Classified Information

During a press conference in early July, James Comey, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, recommended no charges for Hillary Clinton concerning “Emailgate”: the…

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Employee Tip-Pooling: The Dynamic Between Federal Regulation and Courts

Employee Tip-Pooling: The Dynamic Between Federal Regulation and Courts

In the case of Oregon Restaurant & Lodging Association v. Perez, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals deemed that employers could not force employees into…

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Changing the Fourth Amendment: Systemic Error or Isolated Negligence?

Changing the Fourth Amendment: Systemic Error or Isolated Negligence?

Recent incidents of police brutality and misconduct, such as those in Baton Rouge and Baltimore, have garnered national attention regarding the role of police in…

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Innocently Detained: A Legal Analysis of United States Quarantine

Innocently Detained: A Legal Analysis of United States Quarantine

Under the Commerce Clause of the United States Constitution, the federal government has the authority to detain individuals exposed to communicable diseases from entering the…

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The Opiate Crisis: Shifting Discretion from Prosecution to Police

The Opiate Crisis: Shifting Discretion from Prosecution to Police

Over the past few years, America has been gripped by a national public health epidemic: addiction to opiates. Few are more familiar with the destruction…

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The Need to Update DMCA

The Need to Update DMCA

In 2000, 738 million people used the Internet. In 2015, 738 million increased seven-fold to 3.2 billion Internet users.[i] In 1998, only 36 percent of Americans…

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Why America’s New Patent System is Both Destructive and Unconstitutional

Why America’s New Patent System is Both Destructive and Unconstitutional

In 2000, ABB Inc. received patent US 6633900 for a “mobile crew management system for distributing work order assignments to mobile field crew units” that…

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