About Time: Wyoming’s Efforts to Limit Child Marriage Anna Beavers, University of Mississippi School of Law, Class of 2024 The sixty-seventh Wyoming legislative session began on February 10th with one bill before the House that stirred up both activist groups and members of the state Congress.[1] Despite doubts voiced by the media, House Bill 7 … Continued
Are Digital Assets Securities? Tyler White, University of Mississippi School of Law, Class of 2024 In July, a federal magistrate rejected the Security Exchange Commission’s (“SEC’s”) third attempt to withhold internal documents relating to a speech given by an SEC official in 2018. The decision is part of a case in which the SEC claims … Continued
By: Vitruvius Introduction Since the opening of trade routes between peoples across the globe, international negotiation has become an integral part of shared prosperity. Negotiation is not simply drawing “X’s and O’s” on a clipboard and expecting the plan to be flawlessly executed. Rather, the evolution between time and space shifts the clipboard and the … Continued
Liar, Liar, Pants On Fire: How Deception is Burning the Criminal Justice System[1]This blog post is derived from a larger article of the same name by the author. To read the larger work, visit https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3772453 By: Mckenzie Williamson, University of Mississippi School of Law, Class of 2022 In the United States, the use of deception … Continued
Up-the-line Immunity: A Gift to General Contractors Jack Simpson, University of Mississippi School of Law, Class of 2022 A. Workers’ Compensation is the Exclusive Remedy for on-the-job Injuries All individuals and businesses that regularly employ five or more individuals are required to provide workers’ compensation benefits.[1]Miss. Code Ann. § 71-3-5. The benefits are … Continued
Modern Homemakers: How Cottage Food Laws Open a New World for Small Businesses Bess Fisher, University of Mississippi School of Law, Class of 2022[1] Social media, namely Instagram, has changed the name of the game for marketing and advertising. Average, everyday people now have the ability to gain thousands of followers, and with that platform … Continued
Consumers v. Pharmaceutical Fraud: The Call to Revive Section Five of the FTC Act By Matti Reightler, University of Mississippi School of Law, Class of 2022 “Is fraud within the pharmaceutical industry the exception, or is it, simply put, their business model?” – Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)[1] Successful litigation against fraudulent pharmaceutical manufacturers is vital … Continued
What Long Lake Township v. Maxon Could Mean for the Future of the “Reasonable Expectation of Privacy” from Drone Operations Conversation in Mississippi Nestor K. Delgado Jr., University of Mississippi School of Law, Class of 2021 Over the course of the past twelve months, the drone industry has made tremendous strides forward nationwide. The COVID-19 … Continued
SB2536 Makes Little Legal Sense By Julio Cazares, University of Mississippi School of Law, Class of 2021 Governor Tate Reeves violated Mississippians’ constitutional rights by signing Senate Bill 2536 into law. In Bostock v. Clayton Cty. Georgia, the Supreme Court held that the employers in question violated Title VII by choosing to fire LGBTQ+ employees based on … Continued
In 1954, the Supreme Court overruled Plessy v. Ferguson’s separate-but-equal doctrine in K-12 education through Brown v. Board of Education.[1] Brown was beneficial in many ways. For schools that did integrate, it gave those black children the educational resources that were not available in their previous segregated schools. Some scholars even believe that Brown was … Continued
