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THE BLOG
Mar 9, 20224 min read
Blowback Builds with the Vaccine Mandate on the Horizon
By Drake Birnbaum In an attempt to end the COVID-19 pandemic, President Biden delivered Executive Orders 14042 and 14043 which require...
Apr 2, 20183 min read
Harlem Suarez and the Standard for Entrapment
By: Andrew Glenn On July 25, 2015, a team of FBI agents broke cover with guns drawn and surrounded a white Toyota Camry in a Benihana...
Mar 28, 20183 min read
The Guantanamo Bay Executive Order
By: Rachel Bauer Guantanamo Bay will continue to stay open and active. On January 30, 2018, President Trump signed an Executive Order,...
Nov 13, 20173 min read
Updates Pending: The Supreme Court Grants Certiorari in the Microsoft Ireland Case
By: Jen Goss, November 13, 2017 In October, the Supreme Court granted certiorari in the case of United States v. Microsoft Corp. A...
Oct 7, 20174 min read
Legal Implications of Detaining the Latest American Enemy Combatant
By Annica Mae Mattus It is around four weeks since the Department of Defense announced an American citizen is being detained by American...
Nov 19, 20165 min read
Where Personal Opinion and Unlawful Command Influence Collide
By Jennifer Goss In August 2016, Sergeant (Sgt.) Bowe Bergdahl’s defense team filed a motion to dismiss all charges against him, claiming...
Feb 29, 20164 min read
iConstitution: How Apple is using the Constitution as a basis for its argument against the FBI
It’s quite difficult to imagine exactly what the Framers of the Constitution would think of the construal of their document to protect...
Feb 17, 20155 min read
‘Roving Patrol’ Abuses and the Demand for Transparency: The ACLU and its FOIA Request to the DHS and
On February 10, 2015, the American Civil Liberties Union of San Diego and Imperial Counties (ACLU-SDIC) filed a lawsuit against the...
Mar 22, 20133 min read
Legal Fight Over Release of Bin Laden Photos Won't Die
Audiences of “Zero Dark Thirty,” an Oscar-nominated film about the decade-long hunt for Osama bin Laden and the May 2011 operation by...
Nov 23, 20123 min read
Sex and the Military: the Problems the Tabloids Aren't Talking About
This Veteran’s Day, the biggest news story about the military was the resignation of CIA Director and retired General David Petraeus in...
Oct 13, 20102 min read
Vanishing Ruling Gives Insight Into the Redaction Process
On March 16, 2010, Judge Henry Kennedy, Jr., of the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., granted a habeas petition for the release of...
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