Jasmyn Hardin explains how the absence of federal protections for natural and protective hairstyles enables discriminatory grooming policies to persistently function as a means of control and punishment for Black people, leaving them with a difficult choice: conform to White normative standards or suffer the consequences.
In this article, Abigail Crabtree discusses ghost guns, the Supreme Court’s upcoming case Garland v. VanDerStok, and the possibility of a future Second Amendment claim concerning the private manufacturing of firearms for personal use.
In this article, Erin Gray discusses the upcoming TikTok ban and the resulting lawsuit TikTok filed against the United States. Gray explores how the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit may rule on TikTok's First Amendment challenge of the ban.
In this article, Madisen Zent discusses the circuit split among the United States circuit courts of appeal in allocating the burden of proof in competency hearings and the potential due process violations.
In this article, Elias Aidun discusses how the recent ruling in LKQ v. GM may significantly change the landscape for design patents, as the standard for determining “obviousness” has been redefined.
Jasmyn Hardin goes beyond the detrimental impacts that abortion restrictions have had on women’s health to examine the broader effects on the healthcare system and society at large. She argues that these policies are erecting new societal barriers while simultaneously exacerbating systemic failures, disproportionately worsening health disparities among groups that have historically faced societal oppression.
Carrington Calder examines the rise of celebrity SLAPP suits and how it could change the landscape of anti-SLAPP suit legislation.
In this article, Abigail Crabtree discusses the circuit split concerning whether an employee’s private remedy under Title IX is preempted by a Title VII claim in an educational setting.
Kate Brewer delves into the National Rifle Association’s First Amendment case against the former Superintendent of the New York State Department of Financial Services and the possible implications it may have.
In this article, Cecilia Giles explores the Supreme Court’s subtle foreshadowing of future abortion access arguments in FDA v. Alliance of Hippocratic Medicine.
