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Duped by Dope: The Sackler Family’s Attempt to Escape Opioid Liability and the Need to Close the Non-Debtor Release Loophole
Get PDFThe opioid epidemic continues to rage on in the United States, ravaging its rural populations. One of its main causes? OxyContin. Purdue Pharma (“Purdue”), the maker of OxyContin, aggressively marketed opioids to the American public while racking up a fortune of over $13 billion dollars for its owners,3 the Sackler family. As a result, roughly 3,000 lawsuits were filed against Purdue and members of the Sackler family. Generally, the lawsuits alleged that Purdue and members of the Sackler family knew OxyContin was highly addictive yet aggressively marketed high dosages of the drug and misrepresented the drug as nonaddictive and without side effects. Facing thousands of lawsuits with damages in the trillions, Purdue soon filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy to halt litigation. Though Purdue and its executives have twice pleaded guilty to perpetuating the opioid epidemic in litigation with the federal government, the Sackler family has yet to be held liable for their involvement
Benefits and Drawbacks of No-Drop Policies and Evidence-Based Prosecution
Get PDFIn order to combat the massive threat that domestic violence poses to pub-lic safety, prosecutors’ offices across America have enacted no-drop policiesrequiring prosecutors to seek a guilty verdict on all domestic violence cases.However, for many and varied reasons, victims of domestic violence are oftenhesitant to testify against their abusers in court proceedings. Evidence-basedprosecution, sometimes called victimless prosecution, has become the goalfor many prosecutors seeking to hold abusers accountable when the victimdoes not want to testify. However, there can be practical barriers to success-ful evidence-based prosecutions, which, when combined with strict no-droppolicies, leave prosecutors no option but to force reluctant victims to testify.This article discusses the interplay between well-intentioned no-drop poli-cies, the practical limitations to evidence-based prosecution, and the effectsof these policies on the victims they seek to protect
Writing Centers & the Dark Warehouse University: Generative AI, Three Human Advantages
Get PDFInstitutions are scrambling, at an unaccustomed pace, to adapt to generative artificial intelligence. While justified concerns focus on plagiarism, the nature of student learning, and changes to assignments, recent scholarship has largely ignored the potential for faculty and staff unemployment that may accompany acceptance and deployment of the new technology. As we ponder seismic changes in higher education, one voice should join, indeed lead, campus discussions. Writing center professionals have proven adept at weathering technological changes, budget cuts, administrative big ideas, and professional marginalization for more than half a century. Early on, centers were sometimes dismissed as mere “fix-it shops” for the least-competent writers of academic prose. Recent scholarship reveals, however, that centers have at last moved from the precariat to earn respect as practitioners of effective writing pedagogy. This article discusses how writing-center professionals, exemplifying Greenleaf’s model of servant leadership and Bruffee\u27s theory of collaborative learning, may help in steering campus policy on AI. Thus far three affordances critical to in-person work at writing centers–metacognitive questioning, active listening, principles of fair use—lie beyond the reach of generative AI. This gap reveals “reverse salients,” areas when a rapidly advancing technology cannot meet its advertised promises. Writing center leadership on this issue could also model adaptation to AI outside academia, in ways that benefit those whose livelihoods stand most at risk of being replaced by a set of algorithms
The Confederate Law of Prize
Get PDFThis essay describes the prize law of the Confederate States of America. Due to the Union’s blockade of the South’s coastline, Confederate judges heard very few prize cases. But when they did, they closely hewed to the prize law of the United States
The Federalist and the Fourteenth Amendment-- Publius in Antebellum Public Debate, 1788-1860
Get PDFThe Federalist Papers occupy a unique place among historical discussions of the federal Constitution. Internationally famous as a work of political science, the essays of “Publius” have particular importance to American constitutional theorists who seek to understand the historical meaning of the federal Constitution. The Supreme Court has cited The Federalist Papers in hundreds of cases, and for more than two hundred years every generation of constitutional scholars has debated and discussed the essays in countless books and articles. [,,
Confirm Julie Rikelman for the First Circuit
Get PDFNow that the United States Senate has reconvened after pauses for holidays, the upper chamber must expeditiously appoint designee Julie Rikelman to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, which is the smallest, albeit critical, appellate court. The nominee, whom President Joe Biden tapped during late July 2022, would supply remarkable experiential, gender, and ideological diversity gleaned from pursuing much cutting-edge reproductive freedom litigation, which included arguing Dobbs before the Supreme Court that overturned Roe v. Wade. The nominee has definitely excelled in law’s highest echelon over twenty-plus years, most recently as the U.S. Litigation Director in the Center for Reproductive Rights at which she has worked over a decade. The vacancy that the nominee would fill has been empty for plentiful months. Thus, the Senate needs to promptly confirm the well qualified, mainstream nominee
The Walls of Legal Research
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Confirm Julie Rikelman for the First Circuit
Get PDFNow that the United States Senate has reconvened after pauses for holidays, the upper chamber must expeditiously appoint designee Julie Rikelman to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, which is the smallest, albeit critical, appellate court. The nominee, whom President Joe Biden tapped during late July 2022, would supply remarkable experiential, gender, and ideological diversity gleaned from pursuing much cutting-edge reproductive freedom litigation, which included arguing Dobbs before the Supreme Court that overturned Roe v. Wade. The nominee has definitely excelled in law’s highest echelon over twenty-plus years, most recently as the U.S. Litigation Director in the Center for Reproductive Rights at which she has worked over a decade. The vacancy that the nominee would fill has been empty for plentiful months. Thus, the Senate needs to promptly confirm the well qualified, mainstream nominee