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COVID Impact on Minority Businesses and Anti-Asian Hate
No full textOn Friday, November 6, Catholic Law Asian Pacific American Law Students Association (APALSA), Black Law Students Association (BLSA), and Women’s Law Caucus (WLC) jointly presented a program on COVID Impact on Minority Businesses and Anti-Asian Hate. The virtual event was also part of the DMV APALSAs Coalition which is a collaboration between APALSA student groups from eight schools within the D.C. Metro area.
The afternoon’s guest speakers were Marita Etcubañez, Director of Strategic Initiatives for Advancing Justice (AAJC), and Catholic Law Professor Heidi Schooner. Both guests brought with them years of experience to speak about how the global COVID-19 pandemic has affected minority small businesses, particularly in the Asian American community. Student leaders from Catholic Law’s chapter of APALSA led the event. Nikita Vasudevan (2L), President, and Nassim Ahmadi (2L), Vice-President, welcomed the group and introduce each of the guest speakers and the event was moderated by Jennifer Hwang (2L), Treasurer, and Daniel Kim (2L), Secretary
Direct to DNA Websites: Are they Becoming De Facto Universal Databases?
No full textShannon’s research discussed various real-world scenarios in which DNA databases have been utilized to convict criminals, then focused on privacy issues and the Fourth Amendment rights of individuals. Of primary concern to Shannon was whether or not consumers really know what they are agreeing to when using DNA services. Shannon proposed that DNA website services make their user agreements more transparent in their policies and have the courts and legislation make a more definitive stance on where DNA secured by websites falls under the Fourth Amendment
Marital Versus Nonmarital Entitlements
Get PDFThis Article discusses the evolution of family structure and the ascendency of privacy, liberty, and self-determination. Partially in response, an array of nonmarital unions have become commonplace in the past fifty years in the United States. Cases reveal the insufficiency of remedies avail- able to these nonmarital couples at dissolution-even for those couples living in states willing to enforce express or implied nonmarital agreements. Strikingly, there are fewer remedies for nonmarital cohabitants at death.
Public policy mandates concern for all citizens, including the evolu- tion of individualized family structures formed by its citizens. The issue addressed in this Article is whether public policy concerns warrant an extension of the marital presumptions traditionally associated with the commitment structure of marriage to a defined group of nonmarital co-habitants. Although increasingly rejected by state legislatures-in an effort to better control the workhorse functions of marriage-common law marriage may offer a remedy if enacted as common law commitment. Freed of the nitpicking elements of legislative proposals, common law commitment may better meet the needs of modern-day evolutions in human nature
Cyber Insurance Today: Saving It Before It Needs Saving
Get PDFCyber insurance, which covers a company’s losses and costs stemming from a cyberattack, represents a nearly 5.2 trillion over the next five years due to cybercrimes. Unless action is taken to mitigate the fallout from cyber events, the cyber insurance market will indeed continue on its perilous path to insolvency
Impact of the Strict Scrutiny Standard of Judicial Review on Abortion Legislation Under the Kansas Supreme Court’s Decision in Hodes & Nauser v. Schmidt
Get PDFThis paper is focused on a narrow matter, namely, the nature of the standard of judicial review adopted by the Kansas Supreme Court in Hodes & Nauser v. Schmidt. 2 The most important (and decisive) point to emphasize is that the standard of judicial review adopted by the court in Hodes is so rigorous that it is likely to unsettle existing abortion law in Kansas and result in a legal landscape for abortion in this state that is more permissive of abortion than either the current federal standard or the original federal standard established by Roe v. Wade.
In order to appreciate the expansiveness of the court’s holding, one needs to understand Roe v. Wade and the 1992 case which altered its impact, Planned Parenthood v. Casey. This paper provides a brief sketch of the key, relevant aspects of those two cases, background which demonstrates the astonishing breadth of the Hodes decision
COVID-19 and the Criminal Justice System
No full textOn June 30, 2020, Catholic Law\u27s Office of Development and Alumni Relations hosted a virtual discussion of COVID-19 and the Criminal Justice System. Professor Cara H. Drinan, Director of Faculty Research, moderated a discussion with Deborah Watson-Stokes \u2790, Chief, Municipal Court Unit Philadelphia District Attorney\u27s Office, and Brittni Downs \u2714, Trial Attorney at the Maryland Office of the Public Defender, Charles County
COVID-19 and Corporate Responsibility
No full textOn July 16, 2020, Catholic Law continued its “COVID-19 and the Law” series with a virtual discussion of COVID-19 and Corporate Responsibility. Hosted by the Office of Development and Alumni Relations in conjunction with Professor Cara H. Drinan, Director of Faculty Research, this week’s discussion was moderated by Professor Sarah H. Duggin, Director of the Compliance, Investigations & Corporate Responsibility Program. Catholic Law alumni Anne Donohue ’98, General Counsel for Akima, LLC, and Mark Gursky ’01, Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer of KLA, joined the program as guest speakers
COVID-19 and Professional Responsibility: Pandemic Impact on Lawyers’ Pro-Bono Work
No full textOn August 13, 2020, Catholic Law’s Office of Development and Alumni Relations hosted its final virtual series discussion, COVID-19 and Professional Responsibility: Pandemic Impact on Lawyers’ Pro-Bono Work. Professor Cara H. Drinan, Director of Faculty Research, welcomed moderator Professor Lisa Everhart for a discussion with Blair Decker \u2711, Pro Bono Attorney for Hogan Lovells, and Kiva Zytnick, Associate Director of Catholic Law’s Pro Bono Program