By: Sabrina Betz, Vol. 24 Staff Writer Introduction In relation to the current administration’s push to increase immigration enforcement, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have increasingly employed new, pervasive surveillance tactics and tools, including facial scanning apps and data aggregation on individuals. Recent claims of ICE violating constitutional rights have largely been analyzed …
By: Gabriel Roberts, Vol. 24 Staff Writer Overview Campus bans from the 2024 pro-Palestine protests have been lifted across the United States, and this time, it’s at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In Dames v. Roberts, the Middle District of North Carolina issued an injunction that removed campus bans for three protestors. …
By: William Schwartz, Vol. 24 Staff Writer Setting the Stage Under the Maryland Fair Employment Practices Act (MFEPA), organizations may not discriminate in hiring on the basis of religion and other protected characteristics. The MFEPA contains an exemption for religious organizations. In John Doe v. Catholic Relief Services, the Maryland Supreme Court determined that the …
By: Whitney Hoffman, Vol. 24 Staff Writer No Laughing Matter On Monday September 15, Jimmy Kimmel remarked live on his late-night show about the death of Charlie Kirk. Kirk, a prominent American conservative political activist and entrepreneur, was assassinated during a Turning Point USA event at Utah Valley University several days prior. During his monologue, …
By: Seth Moore, Vol. 24 Staff Writer In September 2025, UNC placed Professor Dwayne Dixon on administrative leave. Not only did this action spark outrage among some students. Ultimately, UNC reinstated Dixon a few days later, but this situation raised a recurring question: what are the rights of university faculty regarding free speech? Professors and …
By: Sybil Sides, Vol. 24 Staff Writer What’s the 411? On October 7th, 2025, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments for the case of Chiles v. Salazar. Kaley Chiles, a licensed counselor in Colorado, provides talk-therapy to minors and often uses her Christian faith in her practice. Chiles contends that many of her clients seek Christian-based counseling to quash unwanted sexual attractions and …
By: Rett Waggoner, Vol. 24 Staff Writer Perhaps the most enduring depiction of freedom of thought in modern popular culture comes from Peter Weir’s Dead Poets Society particularly its final scene. As the students listen to the fictitious Dr. J. Evans Pritchard’s guide to plotting a poem’s quality to reveal its merits, the dismissed Professor …
By: Charlotte Easley, Vol. 24 Staff Writer The Cost of Clicking The Supreme Court’s decision in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton marks a turning point in how states can regulate access to sexually explicit online content, upholding a Texas law that requires commercial websites to verify user age before engagement. Under Texas’s H.B. 1181, adult-content …
By: Carson Honeycutt, Vol. 23 Staff Writer Introduction In the wake of the June 2024 Supreme Court decision in Vidal v. Ester, the following is an analysis of the decision and what this means for trademark law in the future. Trump Too Small, Names Clause Too Constitutional This year, the Supreme Court held in Vidal v. Elster that …
By: Hailey Hudson, Vol. 23 Staff Writer Pageants have centered themselves around the principle of women empowerment, yet have been historically under-representative of all women, setting certain eligibility requirements for participants. Should pageants legally be required to include all women? Are their eligibility requirements, which create exclusivity to a certain set of women, disempowering non-eligible women and discriminatory? Or …