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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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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 follows in the footsteps of increasingly popular podcasts by covering legal issues and bringing a fresh, student-driven perspective to the professional discourse. The CLR follows a format that is readily
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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 on a yellow piece of card-stock paper that said, “What would Howard do?” For some reason, I couldn’t forget that candy jar. Maybe because of the personal nostalgia attached to similar candy
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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 by the World Health Organization and numerous ministries of health and other organizations around the world. World Mental Health Day truly has global influence. World Mental Health Day had humble
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Upon entering the foyer of the Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law, one could not help but to notice the following expression of commitment displayed on the wall: “He has showed you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.” This statement, taken from the sixth chapter and eighth verse of the book of Micah in the Bible, declares a fundamental piece of wisdom that must be understood in order to be a
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What is Kiva? Organizations like Kiva, Heifer International, and Accion International, are leading the charge in the global effort towards financial inclusion. These microfinancing organizations are helping to provide disadvantaged individuals and businesses with the financial tools to improve their lives and their communities. Officially launching in 2005, Kiva is a 501(c)(3) U.S. non-profit based in California. As a person-to-person crowdfunding platform, Kiva connects everyday Americans
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The notion of being “politically correct” has been in the spotlight for a substantial period of time, consistently generating an ever-expanding list of terms that are better excluded from polite conversation. I’m sure we can all think of words and phrases that were perfectly acceptable, even preferred, during our respective childhoods that have since fallen out of favor, being deemed cruel, unkind, dismissive, or disparaging. I’m equally sure that we all know someone who, at some
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Maine recently hit a crucial milestone, which many were unaware of: A fifth of the state’s population is over the age of sixty-five. The World Bank has defined this milestone as a phenomenon called “super-aged.” This milestone makes Maine the state with the oldest population in the United States; however, Maine is just the “tip of the spear,” as stated by a reporter at The Washington Post quoting Ai-jen Poo, the co-director of Caring Across Generations. Maine will not be the only
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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) published a new rule that, as of January 1, 2019, all hospitals are required to “make public a list of their standard charges [for all items and services] via the Internet . . . and to update this information at least annually, or more often as appropriate.” This so-called “Hospital Price Transparency Rule” is a key part of CMS’s priority to create “a patient-centered healthcare system.” The overall goal is to give
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In a historic moment in North Carolina’s judicial history, Justice Cheri Beasley was sworn in as the next Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina on March 7th, 2019. Her appointment is historic in two ways: (1) upon her appointment, Chief Justice Beasley has become the first African-American woman to hold the position in the State’s history; and (2) her appointment breaks the long-held state tradition of appointing the senior associate justice to the position. THE FIRST
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After the ground-breaking leak of the Panama Papers in 2016, the first US charges have been brought against four individuals in the Southern District of New York. The encrypted documents detailed the offshore holdings of prominent figures across the globe. In 2016, an anonymous source leaked confidential documentsto a German newspaper, Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ), that exposed how the wealthy and elite use certain tax havens to hide their wealth and avoid paying taxes. The
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Judge Collins of the Third Division of the Superior Court ruled two amendments to the North Carolina Constitution, effectuated by N.C. Session Laws 2018-117 and 2018-128are now void. Judge Collins wrote in his opinion, “an illegally constituted General Assembly does not represent the people of North Carolina and is therefore not empowered to pass legislation that would amend the state’s constitution.” Judge Collins is referring to when the General Assembly redrew the
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