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William Chaffin, Jr. v. Warden of FCI-Allenwood Medium
No full textUSDC for the Middle District of Pennsylvani
Tyrone Martin v. Secretary Pennsylvania Departm
No full textUSDC for the Western District of Pennsylvani
Nationwide Injunctions and the Administrative State
No full textWhere an administrative regulation is deemed by a court to be illegal, unconstitutional, or otherwise invalid, courts sometimes issue nationwide injunctions. In other words, instead of holding that the regulation cannot be applied to the individuals before the court, the court prohibits the agency from applying the regulation anywhere in the country, including to others not before the court. This article explores the debate surrounding the appropriateness of nationwide injunctions. While at first glance such injunctions may seem to make sense, they can have serious consequences, including risk of abuse and forum shopping, amplification of erroneous decisions, and the negative impacts of judicial review
Campus Housing Finance Authority Board of Directors Meeting - Open Session Book 04/17/2024
No full textThe History of Bans on Types of Arms Before 1900
No full textThis Article describes the history of bans on particular types of arms in America, through 1899. It also describes arms bans in England until the time of American independence. Arms encompassed in this article include firearms, knives, swords, blunt weapons, and many others. While arms advanced considerably from medieval England through the nineteenth-century United States, bans on particular types of arms were rare
Putting the Lawyer First: Framing Well-Being in Law as an Ethical Dilemma
No full textA disturbingly high percentage of our students continue to be unwell. In the most recent and comprehensive survey of law student well-being in 2021, almost 70% of law students responded that, in the past twelve months, they believed they needed to seek help for emotional or mental health problems. Embedded screening tools in the survey suggested that 34% of respondents were clinically depressed and 54% suffered from clinical anxiety. 44% of respondents reported being drunk in the past thirty days, 33% had engaged in binge drinking in the preceding two weeks, and 38% had smoked marijuana in the past twelve months. Over 80% of law students responded that they had suffered at least one traumatic event in their lives, with 70% reporting more than one such event. Nearly 16% of law students said they had thoughts of self-harm in the past twelve months, and 11% reported serious thoughts of killing themselves in the last year. These numbers are troubling and above national averages. And for most of these categories, the percentage of students reporting mental health challenges or problematic behaviors has increased since the last comprehensive study of law students in 2014
Who Will Speak for the Trees? How the Save Our Sequoias Act Underscores the Urgent Need to Protect Giant Sequoias and the Tule River Indian Reservation from Wildfire Destruction
No full textIncreasing rates of high-severity wildfires threaten the existence of giant sequoia trees, as well as the reservation and sacred cultural sites of the Tule River Indian Tribe. Decades of fire suppression have created a ticking time bomb across millions of acres of land. The result: the last two fire seasons alone wiped out nearly 20% of all giant sequoias on the planet and burned thousands of acres of forests across the Tribe’s land. This Article explores the ecological background and significance of the giant sequoias and their relationship to the Tribe. It then examines the existing legal framework for sequoia grove management and analyzes the proposed legal framework under the House version of the Save Our Sequoias Act. This Article highlights some of the advantages of the bill while conceding its main weaknesses, ultimately arguing that the bill could provide powerful tools for both implementing a swift and effective response to the increasing threat of high-severity wildfires in giant sequoia groves and advancing the interests, knowledge, and concerns of Indigenous people of the area—namely the Tule River Tribe