Volume 46, Issue 2
May 2025
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Guilty Until Proven Innocent: An Analysis of Racial Disparities in Civil Asset Forfeiture Seizures
In a country plagued by gross injustice and blatant criminalization of communities of color, we must ask ourselves: should property receive more rights than people? The phrase “innocent until proven guilty” is a phrase that has echoed in our minds since we were children and is one of the most recognizable values of our justice…
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Gender Discrimination in the Workplace: A Retrospective Analysis of ‘Young v. United Parcel Service, Inc., 575 U.S. 206 (2015)’ Through the Lens of Feminist Jurisprudence
Gender discrimination in the workplace, particularly attitudes about pregnancy and childbirth, has been a persistent issue despite legal efforts to address and rectify such disparate treatment. Such efforts have led to substantial legislation from both states’ legislatures and Congress including the Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA) which is discussed in Young v. United Parcel Service, Inc.…
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State Restrictions on Gender-Affirming Care: Implications for Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Children’s Welfare
I realize that while everything is the same, it is also brand new. For the first time in my life, I am competing as just myself–without the baggage of who everybody told me to be, who everybody said I was, who I thought I was supposed to be. Today, I am just who I am.…
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Kid Clickbait: Online Privacy Concerns for the Children of Today’s Social Media Movement
The absence of an all-encompassing federal data privacy law in the United States as of 2024 leaves many Americans vulnerable to personal information theft and exploitation. Minors, who are already susceptible to harm, may face heightened data privacy risks due to their online presence. The potential exposure of their private information, coupled with an ever-shifting…
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Combating the Rising Threat of Sextortion
The stark truth about the Internet is that it can expose children to vile and degrading materials in the sanctuary of their homes and open the door to dangerous child sexual predators. “Sextortion is a rapidly escalating threat,” according to FBI Director Christopher Wray. Sexual extortion, commonly known as sextortion, occurs when a predator coerces…