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    We Speak for the Trees: Public Backlash to Florida’s 2024–25 Great Outdoors Initiative

    November 22, 2024By Kharla Salazar

    Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax is aptly titled after its main character: a mystical, short orange being who is the guardian of a Truffula forest and speaks on behalf of the trees and all the creatures who reside there.[i] The Lorax’s appearances are purposefully timed as he swiftly appears when the first Truffula tree is chopped, […]

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    After Further Review… The Ruling in The Courtroom is Overturned: The Implications of the NFL Sunday Ticket Verdict Being Reversed

    October 23, 2024By Robert Lopez

    In early July, the National Football League (“NFL”) looked to score a massive victory by throwing their legal equivalent of a challenge flag when they filed a motion for judgment as a matter of law, or in the alternative, a new trial.  This came after the NFL, in the United States District Court for the […]

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    Freedom at a Price: How COVID-19 has Affected the U.S. For-Profit Bail System

    October 19, 2020By Melissa Respeto

    The for-profit commercialized bail system is legal in only two countries around the world, the United States and the Philippines.  The money bail system in the United States is structured in a way that, irrespective of whether a defendant is later found guilty or not by a jury, if they are charged with a crime and given bail, they can very well find themselves sitting in a jail cell with no recourse on the basis of nothing more than the size of their wallets.

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