Style on Trial: How A Hermès Handbag Became the Center of an Antitrust Lawsuit
An exploration of the unexpected legal drama surrounding one of the most iconic handbags on the luxury market. [...]
Miscellaneous
Covering some of the most interesting topics of the CLO, this section highlights diverse areas of law, including sports and entertainment.
The Expense of Online Law Databases
Access to a legal database is essential to a lawyer, as lawyers must consult case law, statutes, and secondary sources to represent a client efficiently. Read for a comparison of the top two competing databases. [...]
Dogs in the Courtroom: The Increasingly Widespread Use of Facility Dog’s in Courtrooms
What is a Facility Dog? A facility dog is placed with an individual who will use the facility dog within his or her profession. The individual that the dog is placed with is usually referred to as a primary handler. A facility dog could be used in a variety of professions. Hospitals are a common example of a location where facility dogs are used to ease anxiety in patients. In the legal world, a facility dog would be used for therapeutic reasons in a courtroom or potentially in other [...]
To (Legal)Zoom or Not to (Legal)Zoom: A Look Into the Online Legal Services Industry
The year is 2022 and the internet is, more than ever before, a prominent part of individuals’ everyday lives. The internet is responsible for not only the creation of new industries but also the reshaping of existing trades and professions to meet the needs of a digital era. For example, legal services, which have traditionally only been available via in-person meetings at a local law office, are now accessible from a home computer or cell phone. Through online legal service providers [...]
North Carolina Lighthouses: Shedding Light on Our State’s History
Lighthouses were born out of necessity—to guide mariners into harbors and to warn them of perilous shoals, shallows, and coastlines. To those seafarers, lighthouses soon became symbols of hope, safety, and home. North Carolina is fortunate enough to have seven historic lighthouses. Having survived hundreds of years along our coastline, battling not only hurricanes and shifting sands, but also legal disputes, these lighthouses remain steadfast because of preservation efforts by the [...]
Taunted by the Haunted: The Extreme Horror Attraction that Continues to Evade Legal Liability
Reaching the Tennessee State Senate: 200,000 Signatures Required. Approximately 170 thousand signatures have been gathered on Change.org in an attempt to have an extreme scare attraction in Tennessee shut down. McKamey Manor is an experience offered in Summertown, Tennessee and Huntsville, Alabama that boasts it is “not your standard . . . haunted house.” The creator of the petition to shut down the house, Frankie Towery, describes the Manor as “a torture chamber under disguise,” [...]
NRA Corruption Allegations and Gun Policy
With an annual spending budget of roughly $250 million, the National Rifle Association (NRA) is a highly influential force in American politics. Established in 1871, the NRA has developed into one of the most influential advocacy organizations in the U.S. and boasts over five million members. Initially founded as a recreational group, the NRA later entered the lobbying realm in 1934, sending mail advertisements to members regarding potential firearms bills. It transformed into a [...]
Who is in the Hot Seat when No One is in the Driver’s Seat? How Self-Driving Cars Present a Difficult Question of Personal Liability
Automated vehicles with automated driving abilities have become a far more common sight recently. Regardless of who or what may be at fault for accidents involving autonomous cars, it is clear that the law on the subject will have to soon address this issue. [...]
Do Clerks of Court Interpret Law and Should They?
Clerks of court have not only been interpreting the law for over 200 years but applying it too. [...]
Mugshots & the Degradation of the Presumption of Innocence
What do Johnny Cash, Bill Gates, Al Capone, and Martin Luther King Jr. all have in common? Mugshots. All of these history-defining individuals, for one reason or another, had interactions with the law. However, despite these figures gaining notoriety in spite of their mugshots, for many individuals, this is not the case. In fact, it is quite the opposite. An Overview A mugshot is a photograph taken by a law enforcement agency upon an individual’s arrest to be used in the [...]
Can Implementing Restorative Justice in K – 12 Schools Eliminate the School-to-Prison Pipeline for Minority Students?
The school-to-prison pipeline is a serious issue in the educational system and American society. Restorative Justice efforts can help phase out the school-to-prison pipeline for many students of color. However, it must be implemented comprehensively across schools for it to be successful, and teachers must be supported throughout the process. [...]
Selling a Haunted House of Spooky Specters: Should Disclosures of Paranormal Activity be Required?
If the topic of “ghosts” arises in a discussion regarding the field of law, it could be in reference to the concept of the dead-hand control of the deceased dictating the lives of the living in wills and estates or to the virtually untraceable firearms lacking serial numbers obtained without background checks in constitutional law. Perhaps, though, these “ghosts” mentioned in conversation regarding the law do in fact refer to the spooky bump-in-the-night phantoms that mass [...]
Return Home : Legendary Musician Nina Simone’s Childhood Home Permanently Protected
The permanent protection of Nina Simone’s childhood home is welcome news in what has been a long year. Thanks to groups like Preservation NC and the visionary artists that saw the need for the preservation of the icon’s home, Nina Simone’s legacy and her humble beginnings will be memorialized forever. [...]
Answering the Call to Serve & the Classroom: How the Legal Community Needs to Address the Issues Faced by National Guard and Military Students
The lack of attendance policies or contingency plans in place at law schools for National Guard students who are forced to choose between the classroom and the call to serve is unfortunate. It needs to be addressed by the American Bar Association and every law school in the nation. [...]
Opinion: Guys Just Want to Have Fun, Too?
Is the forced male inclusion in female employment niches trumping the capitalistic freedom of experimentation and creativity? [...]
