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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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    What is the Meaning of “In Common Use?”: Supreme Court to Decide Whether AR-15s Are Protected by the Second Amendment

    September 30, 2026By Maxwell Gregg

    The Second Amendment to the United States Constitution states, in full, that “[a] well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”[i]  While this language has been a contentious source of debate and scrutiny,[ii] the interpretation of the […]

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