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Naomi Voehl* The month of October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month, so it is a time to celebrate the accomplishments of people with disabilities in the workforce as well as inspect areas of disability rights that still need tremendous growth. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was created in 1990 to address decades-long issues…

Taryn Reichow* I. Introduction Cybersecurity has become a hot button issue this past year after the roll out of artificial intelligence (AI). “[T]he global annual cost of cybercrime is predicted to reach $9.5 trillion by the end of 2024.” Businesses all over the United States have suffered huge cybersecurity breaches in 2024. And it’s not…

Alexander Schatz* Every single Supreme Court case in the history of the United States has been correctly decided. That is a bold claim, I know. But please bear with me; I intend to defend it vigorously. I hope to convince you that it is definitionally impossible for a Supreme Court case to be wrongly decided.…

By Gabrielle Tremblay* As a former women’s college student-athlete, I knew my sport was less important to the university than men’s basketball. The basketball players got their own court, exclusive time slots in the workout center, and tutors on road trips, and the justification was that they were the “money-making” sport. Yet no one asks,…

Quinn McKush* According to Forbes, Netflix has 260.28 million subscribers, cementing it as the most subscribed streaming service in the world. Part of the reason why Netflix has remained so successful is because of its several innovations, many of which are patented. Many of the patents Netflix holds have become staples of the streaming service…

Taylor Kugler* For many Native American tribes, energy development is their “economic lifeblood.” While revenue from fossil fuel extraction is the most significant source of revenue for many tribes, there remains a large amount of untapped renewable energy potential on tribal lands. Tribal land is estimated to contain 6.5% of the total utility-scale renewable energy…

*Maggie Chen This past August, whether you are an avid fan of the Olympics or someone who could not care less about sports, the big data analysis must have pushed news about Stephen Nedoroscik, also known as “the Pommel Horse Guy,” to your phone at least once. While this 25-year-old gymnast might have clinched his…

Matthew Koop* The troubled relationship between medical advancement and dead bodies dates back hundreds of years. In the past, problems arose out of how difficult it was for medical institutions to obtain cadavers. This led to school-sponsored grave robbing, and to the development of laws that automatically provided the bodies of the poor to medical…

Dylan Thorson*  Twenty years ago, the landmark case Crawford v. Washington sought to revolutionize Confrontation Clause analysis. While Crawford has certainly altered the landscape of Sixth Amendment interpretation, the last two decades have seen cases stray from Crawford’s supposed ideal. This article will examine, first, how the Crawford Court’s failure to define “testimonial” left its…

By Liesl Holum*, 3L Civil commitment can mean a lot of different things. If you’re anything like me before I had done any work in the field, then maybe the term brings up vague spooky concepts like asylums from the early 1900s—the setting of many horror stories. These misconceptions are perhaps so widespread because of…