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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The legal profession has a reputation for being somewhat behind the times in its slow, uneasy embrace of technology; however, students at Campbell have developed a more accessible approach to connecting with perpetually busy law students and lawyers – a podcast. The Campbell Law Reporter
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As I walked into the office of Howard Cummings, I immediately noticed something that captured my attention. In the back corner of his office sat a wooden candy dispenser with an upside-down Mason jar screwed on the top. Propped against the side of that candy jar was a black Sharpie message written
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World Mental Health Day has been held annually on October 10 since 1992. This day, dedicated to mental health education and advocacy, began as an initiative of the World Federation of Mental Health under the leadership of Deputy Secretary General Richard Hunter. Today, this cause is supported
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