Please welcome the new Volume 15 Staff Members! Congratulations on successfully completing the 2016 Joint Journal Competition, and welcome to the First Amendment Law Review! Tyler Abboud Chelsea Barnes Danny Budasoff John Cashion Ashton Cooke Jennifer Davis John Ferris Hanna Fox Elaine Hillgrove Catherine Hipps Emily Jessup Amber Lee Saverio Longobardo Martin Maloney Emily Mann …
By Mia B. Ragent; Staff Member (Vol. 14) Do tour guide licensing requirements violate the Free Speech Clause? In the past year, tour guides in two major tourist-destination cities challenged licensing schemes to two different results.
By Joseph M. (Max) Swindle; Staff Member (Vol. 14), Notes Editor (Vol. 15) Political silence, the inability to have one’s voice heard, is an issue that marginalizes many citizens and residents. In an effort to remedy this pervasive issue, some citizens choose to give money to public policy think tanks that help foster discussion about …
By Jonathan C. Jakubowski, Staff Member (Vol. 14) “The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.” – Daniel Webster In June 2015, the Department of State proposed several changes to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), which regulate the manner in which items on the United States Munitions …
By Hillary Li, Staff Member (Vol. 14) “This is a sad day for North Carolina that history will not judge kindly,” Sarah Preston, the acting executive director of the ACLU of North Carolina said in a statement released on June 11, 2015 . That was the day the North Carolina House of Representatives (the “House”) …
By Elizabeth (Beth) A. Kapapoulos; Staff Member (Vol. 14), Chief Staff Editor (Vol. 15) With the advent of the Internet, an entirely new realm of libel law has emerged in the courts, forcing judges to examine entirely new questions of Internet vigilantism and how to deal with crimes in a digital world. Defamation, 20 N.C. …
By Alexander (Alex) M. French, Staff Member (Vol. 14) On April 4, 2015, a North Charleston Police Officer shot and killed Walter Scott. Michael Shlager, the responding officer, reported that he pulled Scott over for a broken tail light. Scott fled on foot and Shlager pursued. Shlager claimed that Scott grabbed Shlager’s Taser and that …
By Jenica D. Hughes; Staff Member (Vol. 14), Executive Editor (Vol. 15) Picture this, you marry someone you love and start creating a life together. Eventually, you have two children together, whom you adore, but eventually, your marital relationship begins to suffer and the two of you are arguing more often and decide to divorce.
By Elizabeth C. Nye, Staff Member (Vol. 14) When people think about the abortion debate, they think Roe v. Wade. However, the Supreme Court’s decision in Roe was only the beginning of legislation and controversy surrounding abortion rights. The Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act, signed into law by President Clinton in 1994, …
