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Give Me Liberty or Give Me the Source Code: Challenging a Black-Box Computer Algorithm Under Daubert
Get PDFWould you trust an entrepreneur who offered to sell you a truthtelling machine, but refused to tell you how it worked? Elizabeth Holmes persuaded investors to sink $700 million into her health tech company, Theranos, with a simple promise: she had invented a machine that could do the impossible. Holmes claimed her invention, a literal black box called an Edison, could run more than two hundred diagnostic tests in under an hour using only a single drop of blood. The Edison purportedly represented “a Holy Grail in the field of microfluidics.” Theranos was going to revolutionize healthcare and change the world. Instead, Holmes is serving a prison sentence for conspiracy and fraud. The Edisons did what black boxes do best: convert inputs into outputs without revealing how. Theranos did not operate based on proven scientific principles, but a castle of overpromises and lies protected by a moat of so-called “trade secrecy” considerations
Richmond Law Magazine: Autumn 2024
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Reconsidering Griswold: Amid Post-Dobbs Threats to Reproductive Freedom, Youngkin Vetoes the Virginia Right to Contraception Act
Get PDFIn its 2022 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the United States Supreme Court found that there is no constitutional right to an abortion, overturning nearly fifty years of precedent set by Roe v. Wade.
In his concurrence in Dobbs, Justice Clarence Thomas wrote that the Court “should reconsider” its past decision in Griswold v. Connecticut. The 1965 case found that married people have a constitutional right to contraception, which Eisenstadt v. Baird extended to unmarried individuals in 1972.
In response to Thomas’ words and to growing threats to reproductive freedom post-Dobbs, lawmakers in Congress and in state legislatures across the country have introduced bills that would codify the right to contraception. Polling shows the legislation is popular across party lines, but efforts have been largely thwarted by Republican legislators and extremist forces who inaccurately claim intrauterine devices and emergency contraceptives are abortifacients. This article will explore the 2024 trajectory of Virginia’s Right to Contraception Act, which passed out of both chambers of the General Assembly but was ultimately vetoed by Governor Glenn Youngkin
A Heat Emergency: Urban Heat Exposure and Access to Refuge in Richmond, VA
No full textThe urban heat island effect exacerbates independent climate change‐induced shifts toward longer, stronger, and more frequent heat extremes. Environmental inequity, driven by a history of racially motivated urban planning policies, has led particular demographics to bear the worst impacts of urban heat exposure and thus also climate change. These impacts cause adverse health outcomes in the form of heat emergencies. Through a novel demographic and spatial analysis of heat‐related illness Emergency Medical Services data from Richmond, Virginia, this study investigates the relationships between heat health emergencies and intra‐urban heat islands quantified through three heat exposure metrics. We also evaluate the accessibility of built refuge from urban heat in the form of public transit infrastructure, libraries, and government cooling centers in relation to these emergencies. We found that heat emergencies are inequitably distributed among racial, age, and socioeconomic groups in Richmond, particularly among residents identified as Male, Black or African American, 50+ years old, and experiencing mental health, intoxication, and/or homelessness. We found significant associations between the location of these heat emergencies and urban heat islands as estimated from remotely‐sensed surface and community science‐derived air temperature metrics, but not a co‐estimated heat index. We also found that available refuge facilities are insufficiently located to protect individuals with reduced mobility across areas with the highest number of heat‐related health emergencies. Community involvement in the mitigation and management of extreme heat threats, especially for those disproportionately impacted, is necessary to decrease the number of summertime heat illnesses
JetBlue Airways Corporation
Get PDFJetBlue commenced operations on February 11, 2000. The company was founded by David Neeleman, an extremely dedicated entrepreneur who, consistent with his Christian roots, wanted to create an airline with more humanity. Neeleman first started working at his grandfather\u27s convenience store when he was just nine years old. The store had a heavy emphasis on customer service. On NPR’s “How I Built This” podcast, Neeleman explained that when the store didn\u27t have something in stock that a customer was looking for, his grandfather would go to another store down the street, buy it, and then deliver it. Consistent with its mission, JetBlue became a customer-centered airline, emphasized by what the company called its customer bill of rights. The company opened a hub in New York, with its operations base in John F. Kennedy Airport
