Judiciary

International Students Excluded from Collegiate NIL Deals

November 27, 2024

Although college athletes have the potential to secure impressive NIL deals, the opportunity is generally not given to international athletes.  However, Congress has proposed a bill that could allow international student-athletes to participate.  [...]

Supreme Inaction: Words from the Bench and Implications of Texas’s S.B. 8

September 2, 2021

In the late hours on Wednesday, September 1, the Supreme Court of the United States denied an emergency request by abortion and women’s health providers for an injunction barring enforcement of Texas’s Senate Bill 8. S.B. 8 is a restrictive law that bans most abortions after as early as six weeks of pregnancy and allows private citizens to file civil lawsuits against abortion providers. The late-night decision arrived by way of the Supreme Court’s shadow docket (a topic that has been [...]

Shedding Light on the Supreme Court’s Shadow Docket

April 2, 2021

The Supreme Court of the United States as an institution is often praised for its transparency and articulate reasoning that serves as a lodestar for judges, scholars, and law students.  When opinions are handed down, they are closely studied for legal arguments that eventually make their way back to court in other cases. The standard operating procedure to have a case heard before the Court is a long and often slow process that prioritizes careful decision-making over speed.  A lawyer will [...]

Is the price of infidelity going down?

May 22, 2017

Over 200 alienation of affection lawsuits are filed in North Carolina every year, and each one provides the judiciary with an opportunity to decide the fate of the controversial tort. [...]

Same Sex, Same Rights

November 3, 2014

The U.S. Supreme Court's decision not to hear appeals of same-sex marriage cases has resulted in a wave of states recognizing these unions. [...]

Is a Scout’s Honor Enough?

June 12, 2014

The California Judicial bar is proposing an amendment which would effectively prohibit Judges from being members of the Boy Scouts of America. [...]

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