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Drone use by citizens has become an ever-increasing trend since they burst onto the scene in the early 2010s and sales have rapidly increased. Drones are used by consumers and companies in a variety of contexts: promotional videos, weddings, news footage, and even the 2018 Winter Olympics. In 2013 Amazon first introduced its idea to use drones for delivering packages, estimating such use to begin by 2015. So why weren’t Amazon packages being delivered by drones in 2015? One reason was
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Using the Internet is a daily habit for millions of individuals in our high-tech society. Countless activities can be done online, such as sharing photos on social media sites, shopping, and reading news from around the world. Many use the Internet for work, or to conduct mundane activities to pass the time. The Internet has become such a major facet in our society that according to Pew Research Center approximately ninety percent of adults in the United States used the Internet in
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Should employers ask you about your salary history when interviewing you for a job? The growing trend says no, and many argue this question is unnecessary to find the perfect candidates for job openings. City and state governments are contemplating this question in an effort to close the wage gap between male and female employees. Since 2017, there have been seventeen state-wide laws and twenty local ordinances across the country addressing this issue. Some of these prohibitions prevent only
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“This is like the Super Bowl for the Second Amendment right here,” an AR-15 wielding activist told Associated Press reporters right outside the Virginia state Capitol building. This gun-rights activist was just one of the estimated 22,000 protestors in attendance outside the Virginia Capitol this past Martin Luther King Jr. day. Days later, gun-rights activists in Kentucky took it one step further and demonstrated their support for gun-rights by physically wielding firearms inside the
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In both the government and private sectors, technology using artificial intelligence (AI) is everywhere. It has been incorporated across a variety of industries and has become an essential part of daily life for many. AI has an immensely powerful influence over people today; it influences many spending decisions people make, including travel, entertainment, personal purchases such as clothing, and food. While AI continues to advance rapidly in complexity, the same cannot be said for the
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The United States Supreme Court heard some of the most anticipated legal issues of the October court term. Among these cases, the Court will decide whether Title VII in the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII), one of the fundamental federal employment discrimination statutes, covers sexual orientation discrimination in the workplace. Currently, Title VII explicitly prohibits discrimination in employment based on race, color, religion, sex, and national origin. The statute has never been
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North Carolina is the only state that does not recognize equivalent domestic violence protection for same-sex couples as it does for opposite-sex couples. See Am. Bar Ass’n, Domestic Violence Civil Protection Orders (CPOs), (2014). Chapter 50B domestic violence protection orders are restricted to only opposite-sex dating relationships in North Carolina. N.C. Gen. Stat. § 50B-1(b). The resulting discrimination against the unprotected and vulnerable parties in same-sex dating
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“Go to Jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass go. Do not collect $200.” Jail is one of the most-landed on spaces in a typical game of Monopoly. However, for many Americans, Monopoly jail is the closest they will ever come to being behind bars. The latest Department of Justice statistics available on the jail population in America places the jail incarceration rate as of 2017 at 0.229 percent of the U.S. population (based on the number of confined inmates in local jails per
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“A man in debt is so far a slave.”[1] These are the words Ralph Waldo Emerson uses in his 1860 essay, Wealth, to succinctly lay bare the concept of debt. Though Mr. Emerson likely did not foresee the looming—and now present—crisis of student loan debt in the United States, his words encapsulate the existence of more than 44 million Americans today. These citizens, saddled by student loan debt, are trapped in an indentured state of existence. Consider that figure in this context: it is
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The New Hanover County Board of Education has proposed a plan to redistrict elementary, middle, and high school districts for the 2020-21 school year. The plan utilizes a variety of factors, one of which is the racial make-up of neighborhoods in New Hanover County. This would be a new method of desegregation in modern society, one of which has never been tested under the United States Constitution and the jurisprudence of the United States Supreme Court. The proposed plan will likely be
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As a state in the “Bible Belt,” it is not uncommon to hear of a North Carolina public school being involved with religion to some degree, whether it be a teacher helping young students pray in class, a teacher participating in a See You at the Pole™ event, or school board members seeking to incorporate prayer at board meetings. Public schools are extensions of the state government and actions by school teachers and personnel may be considered government acts. While the United States
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The towns of Garner and Wake Forest cancelled their 2019 Christmas parades after the Sons of Confederate Veterans announced that the group planned to include floats in the parades. Wake Forest Police Chief Jeff Leonard explained that the town cancelled the parade because the town feared that the Sons of Confederate Veterans would draw protests from outsiders. Chief Leonard explained: Groups that contact us about their plans to protest tend to follow our rules and regulations. We’re
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Climate change is an issue that has recently come to the forefront of discussion in both the United States and the rest of the world. Commonly, climate change is debated through the lens of politics, social policy, or economic principles. The legal field has not yet delved as deeply into the issue. Until recently, many have hoped to combat climate change through legislation and lifestyle changes. However, individuals, activists, and other groups around the country have now turned to
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Nearly a decade following the passage of The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (“ACA”), the American health care delivery system continues to face many of the same problems that the “Obamacare” reforms sought to address. Prior to the ACA, 50 million Americans were without health insurance—more than 16 percent of the population. Health care represented 17 percent of the nation’s gross domestic product, and costs were increasing faster than inflation rates. The Act sought
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The 2019 North Carolina Farm Bill looks to ban smokable hemp throughout the state. The North Carolina House of Representatives and Senate are at odds choosing a date to ban smokable hemp. One side wants to accommodate law enforcement’s request to ban hemp, while the other side wants to make sure local farmers are protected. The legalization of smokable hemp creates issues in relation to law enforcement’s ability to establish probable cause based on the odor or appearance of marijuana.
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