By Matthew E. Cavanaugh. Full Text. Facial recognition tracking is the use of facial recognition technology to track a person’s movements based on the appearance of their face at particular locations. It is one of many rapidly advancing technologies that are forcing a judicial reckoning with how the Fourth Amendment right against unreasonable searches applies…

By Ryan Plasencia. Full Text.  While universally condemned by the international community, state-sponsored torture and extrajudicial killing are still pervasive practices around the globe. This Note examines a specific form of state-sponsored torture and killing—those acts that are facilitated or aided by multinational corporations with profit motives. In 1992, the United States enacted the Torture…

By Olivia Levinson. Full Text. Every year, YouTube amasses billions of dollars in online advertising revenue. While many advertisements play before, in between, and after YouTube videos, there are often more elusive advertisements within the videos themselves. Embedded advertisements within videos pose unique consumer protection concerns, especially as they pertain to young audiences. Ryan’s World,…

By Casey N. Epstein. Full Text.  Administrative law and tax law have clashed for the past several decades. While recent caselaw, starting with Mayo Foundation in 2010, has indicated that administrative law, such as the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), does apply to the Treasury, many questions remain unanswered. Much attention has recently focused on the…

By Seiko Shastri. Full Text. Asylum applicants face a mounting number of barriers to being granted refuge in the United States. This is especially true for individuals applying for asylum based on their membership in a “particular social group,” one of the few protected grounds for asylum. In recent years, the Board of Immigration Appeals…

By Alec Foote Mitchell. Full Text.  The London Inter-Bank Offered Rate, or LIBOR, is known as “the world’s most important number.” Referenced in almost $350 trillion of financial contracts, LIBOR is central to modern finance. But in 2023, it is vanishing. As central banks, governments, financial institutions, and private parties rush to find replacement rates,…

By Jenna Hensel. Full Text.  Social media companies enjoy a broad scope of protection from liability due to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act offers social media companies two prominent protections: (1) protection from liability for user content posted on their websites because social media companies “cannot…

By Zach Wright. Full Text.  The Natural Gas Act (NGA) governs the siting of interstate natural gas pipelines. There is not a federal body that sites pipelines—instead, the NGA delegates federal eminent domain to private actors to site pipelines through a certificate of need. Private actors have condemned private and state land to site pipelines…

By Lexi Pitz. Full Text.  Assisted living facilities are wildly popular among elderly Americans. This trend is expected to persist due to increasing life expectancy, an aging baby boomer population, and the growing preference for assisted living facilities over nursing homes. Despite their growing popularity, the assisted living industry remains alarmingly underregulated at both the…

By Ryan Fitzgerald. Full Text.  In 2011, through the America Invents Act, Congress created a new administrative procedure, inter partes review (IPR), to allow third parties to challenge issued patents before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). It did so in recognition “that questionable patents [were] too easily obtained and [were] too difficult to…