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    The Bench at the Birthing Bed: Court Ordered C-Sections and Maternal Autonomy

    October 23, 2026By Genesis Johnson

    During an arduous and painful labor, Cherise Doyley (“Doyley”) was compelled to defend her reproductive autonomy before a court while bringing new life into the world.[i]  Her hearing took place at her hospital bedside, on a tablet screen, as her contractions continued.[ii]  Doyley’s case exposes a constitutional contradiction that Florida law has yet to resolve: […]

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    The Ban That Ate Its Own Tail: How Animal Law Precedent Built the Case Against Cultivated Meat

    October 9, 2026By Adrian Ramos

    In December 2024, a California startup wanted to serve Art Basel’s Miami crowd chicken that had never belonged to a living bird.  Upside Foods grows its product from banked chicken cells in a cultivator, and by then the company had already cleared FDA consultation and earned a USDA grant of inspection.[i]  Five months earlier, Florida […]

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    When AI Meets the First Amendment: Viewpoint Discrimination in the Age of Political Deepfakes

    October 6, 2026By Leah Llobell

    Artificial intelligence has made it increasingly easy to create realistic images depicting events that never occurred.  In Montana, that technology recently collided with the First Amendment after a political committee distributed campaign mailers containing AI-generated images of state legislators.[i]  The images included legislators wearing pronoun pins and holding pride flags, as well as another legislator […]

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    Public Tools, Private Motives: Regulating ALPR Misuse in Florida

    October 1, 2026By Marcela Rivera

    Over the span of 667 days, Florida police officer Christopher Goodson used law-enforcement resources to search his estranged wife’s license plate 717 times.[i]  From September 1, 2024, to June 30, 2026, Officer Goodson employed the help of the increasingly controversial automated license plate recognition system (“ALPR”), Flock Safety, to track where and when her vehicle […]

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