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Total Makeover: Federal Cosmetics Regulation and Its Need for Legislative Overhaul to Ensure Consumer Protection
Get PDFThe cosmetic industry’s lack of federal oversight has given rise to concerns regarding consumer safety. Amy Friedman’s story is one example of how the current lack of FDA cosmetic regulation causes actual harm to consumers.26 The current regulatory scheme allows cosmetic companies to operate with little to no government review, leaving consumers vulnerable to potential bad actors. This Comment discusses the problematic effects of the current regulatory framework on the health and safety of consumers, and explores the SCPCPA and its proposed amendments to the FDA’s regulatory authority over cosmetics.
This Comment argues that the SCPCPA is a necessary legislative solution to the current lack of federal cosmetics regulation. Consequently, this Comment argues that the SCPCPA should be re-introduced and passed in order to protect the health and safety of consumers.
Part I begins with a discussion of the FFDCA and the FDA’s limited authority to regulate cosmetics. Part II provides an overview of the proposed SCPCPA bill and its provisions. This section explores how the bill purported to amend the FFDCA by broadening the FDA’s regulatory power over the cosmetics industry. Part III details two instances wherein the lack of federal oversight over cosmetics threatened consumer safety: the WEN incident and a second one involving Johnson & Johnson talcum powder found to be contaminated with asbestos. Lastly, Part IV argues that Congress should enact the SCPCPA because it would provide the FDA with the necessary authority to effectively regulate cosmetics and protect consumers. This section begins by examining the provisions of the SCPCPA in the context of the WEN and Johnson’s incidents, and argues that these incidents could have been prevented or minimized if the FDA had the authority the SCPCPA aimed to provide. To illustrate the feasibility of the SCPCPA provisions, this section then looks to the success of similar provisions in California’s existing cosmetics legislature including the state’s recently enacted Toxic-Free Cosmetics Act. Lastly, this section addresses legislators’ concerns as to federal preemption and the SCPCPA’s effect on small businesses
Comments on South Fresno Road Widening Project
Get PDFWe are writing this letter on behalf of South Fresno Community Alliance, Katy Taylor, Rosa DePew, and Panfilo Cerrillo to urge you to deny approval of the actions before you today for the Central Avenue Improvements Project (Bid File 3796) (“Project”), including the finding of Categorical Exemptions pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act Guidelines, the Inter-fund Loan Agreement for $1,880,097, and the award of a construction contract
THE UNFAIR TREATMENT OF CRYPTOCURRENCIES BY THE U.S. INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE
Get PDFThis paper explores the challenges the cryptocurrency industry has been confronting in the United States due to the unfairness of the tax policies issued by the United States Internal Revenue Service. Cryptocurrency service providers, miners, investors and general consumers are being prevented from taking advantages of special tax treatments as compared to other similar properties, commodities and securities. Tax legislation has not kept pace with the development of emerging cryptocurrency technologies that enable otherwise traditional types of revenue to be generated
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The First Step in Overhauling Criminal Justice? Abolish the Death Penalty
Get PDFSince the killing of George Floyd by a police officer, many changes to criminal justice have been proposed and some have been enacted. However, none of these reforms will be meaningful unless and until we require the government to dismantle the laws and procedures that implement the death penalty, an inherently biased and horrific practice. The fact that the federal government and twenty-seven states still have the death penalty reveals an attitude that is diametrically counter to the mindset necessary to end mass incarceration
KNOW EVERY DOCUMENT AND PIECE OF EVIDENCE IN YOUR FILE
Get PDFKnowing every document and piece of evidence in your case file is imperative to competent preparation of your case. While this may sound obvious, many attorneys fail to follow this advisement to their own peril. The reasons for knowing your case file in and out are threefold: (1) you want to be the case master, (2) you do not want to be caught off-guard, and (3) your reputation is on the line
Colin Crawford Named Dean of Golden Gate University School of Law
Get PDFColin Crawford, dean of the Louis D. Brandeis School of Law at the University of Louisville, is joining Golden Gate University School of Law as its 16th dean
Riverflow: The Right to Keep Water Instream
No full textThere are many people and places connected to rivers: fishermen whose livelihood depends on river ecosystems, farms that need irrigation, indigenous groups whose cultures rely on fish and flowing waters, cities whose electricity comes from hydroelectric dams, and citizens who seek wild nature. For all of these people, instream flow is vitally important to where and how they live and work. Riverflow reveals the diverse and creative ways people are using the law to restore rivers, from the Columbia, Colorado, Klamath and Sacramento–San Joaquin watersheds in America, to the watersheds of the Tweed in England and Scotland, the Fraser in Canada, the Saru in Japan, the Nile in North Africa, and the Tigris–Euphrates in the Middle East. Riverflow documents that we already have the legal tools to preserve the ecological integrity of our waterways; the question is whether we have the political will to deploy these tools effectively. Provides vital analysis to help attorneys, policymakers, judges, fishery scientists and other stakeholders protect rivers Highlights the frequent disconnect between science and policy in the water policy sector Offers solutions for cost-sharing arrangements to cover the costs of restoring instream flowshttps://digitalcommons.law.ggu.edu/monographs/1031/thumbnail.jp
Reimagining Criminal Justice: In Defense of Self-Defense
Get PDFSince the Louisville, Kentucky police killed Breonna Taylor in the middle of the night in her own apartment, the United States has seen an uptick in protests against racially motivated police violence. However, the officers responsible for her death have not been criminally charged, in part because her boyfriend, unaware that police were entering the apartment in the middle of the night, shot one of the officer’s in the leg, “justifying” the next six rounds that were shot by the police and ultimately killed an innocent woman during the botched police raid.
As if this was not outrageous enough, in October 2020, the officer shot during the police raid, Jonathan Mattingly, who killed Taylor, filed a lawsuit against Breonna Taylor’s boyfriend alleging “battery, assault, and intentional infliction of emotional distress.”
Unfortunately, this series of events is not surprising, as the affirmative defense of “self defense” is unevenly and rarely applied when police are the perpetrators of deadly violence. This is especially concerning as police continue to routinely abuse their power by killing innocent people, yet are rarely held accountable for their actions. The police are so accustomed to immunity to consequences for use of deadly force, that they even have the nerve to sue innocent bystanders who acted out of self defense during an act of police brutality that ended in the killing of an innocent woman
Judges of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Get PDFListing with short biography of current judges of the Night Circuit Court of Appeals