Service dogs working to ameliorate limitations for disabled individuals provide equality of access, a mandate firmly established by the United States Department of Justice. Unfortunately, imprecision in the law and policy regarding administration of service dogs as a valued public utility for disabled individuals has invited excessively broad, confusing, and problematic interpretations of how service…

When Purdue Pharma’s OxyContin swept through the prescription pain medication market in the mid-1990s, life in the United States was forever changed. At that time, it was not known that prescription opioids, like OxyContin, would lead to addiction, homelessness, joblessness, and an estimated death toll of over 200,000 in the 21st century alone. Since 1999,…

Why should there be hunger and privation in any land, in any city, at any table when man has the resources and the scientific know-how to provide all mankind with the basic necessities of life? . . . We have amazing knowledge of vitamins, nutrition, the chemistry of food, and the versatility of atoms. There…

When a person is falsely accused of child abuse, there are negligible, if any, legal causes of action that can be brought against the child abuse reporter because of the expansive immunity protections that are afforded to child abuse reporters across the United States. This is especially concerning since a report of child abuse is…

From 2013 to 2018, police in St. Louis Park, Minnesota, forced landlords to terminate the leases of over 225 tenants for violating the city’s crime-free housing ordinance. This is an average of over three evictions per month, and two out of three evicted tenants were never even charged with a crime. In one particular case,…

My name is Kathy Santamaria Mendez, and I am a Salvadoran-Honduran immigrant in the United States. I came to the United States with my family from El Salvador when I was two years old, originally as tourists, but life had other plans for us, and we ended up staying in the United States permanently. Even…