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By: Daniel Raddenbach, Volume 105 Staff Member INTRODUCTION             Robinhood, an investment app designed to make trading easy for small investors,[1] caught national attention in January when hordes of its users banded together to defeat hedge funds[2] who were actively profiting from the decline of the value of GameStop stock.[3] Robinhood’s decision to temporarily halt…

By: Sarah Snebold, Volume 105 Staff Member Within a globalized economy, it would be foolish to turn a blind eye to Islamic finance and its respective market. Islamic finance presents the ability to tap into emerging markets within the Middle East, Africa and Asia.[1] Citigroup Inc. and Morgan Stanley profited by entering these markets, evidenced…

By: Avery Bennett, Volume 105 Staff Member  INTRODUCTION Recently, mounting scrutiny and criticism of technology companies’ business practices have led to well publicized calls for investigations and probes into potentially anticompetitive behavior.[1] Amid these calls to curb the industry’s power, state officials have revealed a coordinated effort to contain anticompetitive practices by technology companies,[2] particularly…

By: Jordan Francis, Volume 105 Staff Member Depending on who you ask, we have either handed the levers of public discourse over to the maleficent interests of “Big Tech,” thereby making the Mark Zuckerbergs of the world the arbiters of truth and justice, or we have abandoned all control and given misinformation and hate speech…

By: Marra Clay, Volume 105 Staff Member The American intellectual property system has a single primary goal: to encourage creators to make new things that benefit society in exchange for an exclusive right to use and license the creation for a limited time.[1] The United States government currently lacks authority to mandate most intellectual property…

By: Dina Kostrow, Volume 105 Staff Member Until recently, Florida was one of only a few states in which citizens convicted of a felony permanently lost the right to vote.[1] In 2018, it looked like the tide was turning. A 64.55% super-majority of Florida voters approved Amendment 4, which restored the right to vote for…

By: Julia Potach, Volume 105 Staff Member On July 14, 2020, the federal government executed death row prisoner, Daniel Lewis Lee, and carried out its first federal execution in 17 years.[1] One year earlier, former Attorney General William Barr cleared the way for the government to resume executions when he directed the Federal Bureau of…

By Zach Krenz, Volume 105 Staffer The Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) makes arbitration clauses enforceable. Section 2, which outlines the breadth of the Act, states that arbitration provisions in contracts “involving commerce . . . shall be valid, irrevocable, and enforceable. . . .”[1] Section 1 of the Federal Arbitration Act exempts certain categories of…

By: Mollie Wagoner, Vol. 105 Staff Member In the wake of the pandemic, Congress issued two rounds of payments, commonly referred to as stimulus checks, to a large swath of the American public in an attempt to offset the economic struggles caused by COVID. While on its face this seems like a relatively straightforward government…

By: Miriam Solomon, Volume 105 Staff Member  In B.L. v. Mahanoy Area School District, the plaintiff, a sophomore in high school, was removed from the school cheerleading team after the team coaches learned of a post B.L. made on Snapchat. After participating on the school’s junior varsity cheerleading team during her freshman year, B.L. tried…