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Parents vs Hospitals: is Forced Treatment Legal?
Taylor Garre | February 13, 2014Let us examine a scenario; parents go to a hospital to treat their child’s cancer and after seeing the...
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5 Ways Same-Sex Couples Are Finally Winning in the Justice System
Taylor Garre | February 12, 2014In a speech on Saturday, February 8, 2014 to a gay rights group in New York City, Attorney General Eric...
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Banning E-Cigarettes on College Campuses is a Questionable Policy
Bo Donoghue | February 11, 2014Colleges all over the country are banning smoking on campus. Many students feel as though such measures are a...
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Law Firms Are Bad at Social Media, But Does it Matter?
Anneliese Mahoney | February 10, 2014In recent years, social media has become intrinsically linked with daily life. From dining to retail to business to...
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Students vs. State: Students Bring Lawsuit Against Tenure Program
Molly Hogan | February 7, 2014Tenure for teachers has always been a contentious issue in public schools, but recently, students in California have taken...
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Abortion Rates Are Down, But Why Does Your News Outlet Say That Is?
Sarah Helden | February 7, 2014Abortion rates in the US are at the lowest point since the procedure was legalized in 1973. Between 2008 and 2011,...
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Who Knew Selling Baked Goods From Your Home was Once Illegal?
Taylor Garre | February 6, 2014A man breaks the law by selling bread from his home in California. While this sounds like a scene...
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Pregnant Women Will be Treated Humanely in New York
Anneliese Mahoney | February 5, 2014That headline I just typed, “Pregnant Women Will be Treated Humanely in New York?” Well I cringed while I...
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Efforts to Reform Sex Trafficking Moving in the Right Direction With Specialized Courts
Taylor Garre | February 5, 2014Should a sexually abused minor be considered a criminal? This question is recently coming to the attention of the...
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The Scary Side of Designer Drugs
Anneliese Mahoney | February 3, 2014During the summer and fall of 2013, a drug called “Molly” started to make headlines. As a 20-something, I’d...
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The Significance of Restrooms: Transgender Rights Upheld in Maine
Sarah Helden | January 31, 2014Thursday, January 30, 2014 saw a huge victory for the rights of transgender students. The Supreme Judicial Court of...
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Verizon Starts New Transparency Trend
Kevin Rizzo | January 31, 2014Verizon released its first transparency report earlier this month sparking new exchanges between the government and technology companies. Many...
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Teaching Creationism in Public Schools…Really?
Molly Hogan | January 31, 20142 + 2 = 4. George Washington was the first President. Dinosaurs and humans walked the Earth together. Does...
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Computer Programming as a Foreign Language?
Sarah Helden | January 31, 2014A new idea is being proposed that could dramatically change education requirements in United States public schools. In New...
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With a New Regime, Can New York Settle on Controversial Policy?
Molly Hogan | January 31, 2014For the past several years, the NYPD has been in trouble over a troubling “stop and frisk” policy. But...
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FBI Finally Takes Action on Revenge Porn: Sign of Things to Come
Taylor Garre | January 29, 2014In the moment, it may seem harmless to share a provocative photo with a significant other during the comfortable...
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Bitcoins for Beginners
Anneliese Mahoney | January 28, 2014Bitcoins are all over the news. Over the past few years, retail stores have begun to accept Bitcoin as...
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No End in Sight for Ukraine
Anneliese Mahoney | January 28, 2014Ukraine is a country in turmoil. There’s no other way around it. Protests have flared up in the nation’s...
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Mexican National Executed Despite Pressure from Mexican and U.S. Governments
Matt DiCenso | January 27, 2014Mexican citizen Edgar Tamayo Arias was executed last Wednesday night in Texas for the fatal shooting of a police...
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What Is and Isn’t Important About Huckabee’s ‘Libido’ Comment
Sarah Helden | January 24, 2014Former Republican Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee is facing criticism for comments he made during a speech on Thursday, January...
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When Gifts Turn to Greed: Former Va. Governor Indicted on 14 Counts
Molly Hogan | January 24, 2014Earlier this week, Bob McDonnell, a former Virginia Governor, and his wife, Maureen, were indicted on 14 counts of...
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Gun Violence in Schools and Universities Continues
Sarah Helden | January 24, 2014Tuesday, January 21, 2014 saw yet another shooting unfold on a college campus. Andrew Boldt, a senior at Purdue...
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A New Role for the NEA: Turning Campfires into Brushfires
Anneliese Mahoney | January 23, 2014The morning of January 23, 2014, I had the privilege to attend an event at the Center for American...
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Privacy Board Calls NSA Eavesdropping Illegal
Taylor Garre | January 23, 2014One name has been making headlines around the country since June 2013. There have been many terms used to...
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Potential Jurors Can No Longer Be Discriminated Against Due To Sexual Orientation
Taylor Garre | January 23, 2014Jury duty is dreaded by many who feel as if they would prefer to be anywhere else besides performing...
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Warrant Not Necessary
Molly Hogan | January 22, 2014The fourth amendment is supposed to protect Americans against unreasonable searches and seizures. You may think that law enforcement...
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Cruel and Unusual: Never Before Used Injection Prolongs Dennis McGuire’s Execution
Sarah Helden | January 21, 2014It should first be stated that I personally don’t condone the practice of the death penalty at all; to...
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Court Says Bloggers are Journalists Too
Anneliese Mahoney | January 21, 2014Freedom of the Press has always, of course, applied to traditional journalists. If someone accuses a journalist in say,...
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Police Suspect Hernandez May Be Shooter in 2012 Double Homicide
Matt DiCenso | January 21, 2014When the body of semi-professional football player Odin Lloyd was discovered in a Massachusetts industrial park in June 2013,...
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Neutral No More: How One Court Ruling Could Affect Everyone who Uses the Internet
Molly Hogan | January 21, 2014In the “Age of the Internet,” consumers expect to have access to any information they want, as fast as...