Constitutional LawFeaturedSupreme Court
April 8, 2026By April Sanchez
The Second Amendment consistently produces significant tension across a range of personal and societal relationships. Debate persists over whether firearm regulations should be tightened or loosened, and which approach can best achieve an appropriate balance between competing interests. However, this tension does not only exist at this most innate level. It also arises between states […]
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Artificial IntelligenceCopyright LawFeaturedSupreme Court
March 2, 2026By Hayley Grabowski
With just a few words entered into ChatGPT, a painting can materialize, raising the question of whether artificial intelligence (“AI”) is the author or merely a tool. In March of 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia answered that an author must be human.[i] The holding arose in Thaler v. Perlmutter, […]
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FeaturedFourth AmendmentSupreme Court
February 9, 2026By Ciara Maytan
Minneapolis sits at the center of a growing constitutional tension between federal immigration enforcement and state criminal procedure following the shooting of Renee Good (“Good”). As local enforcement increasingly cooperates with federal immigration authorities, the line between civil immigration removal and criminal punishment has become blurred, raising concerns about the Fourth Amendment.[i] The Fourth Amendment […]
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Copyright LawFeaturedIntellectual PropertySupreme Court
November 3, 2025By Victoria Reyes
In a blockbuster case now before the Supreme Court, an Internet Service Provider (“ISP”), Cox Communications (“Cox”), faces liability for its users’ mass piracy of recorded music, a verdict that threatens to fundamentally reshape the boundaries of contributory copyright liability.[i] The Fourth Circuit upheld Cox’s liability for contributory infringement, while vacating its vicarious liability and […]
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