The opioid epidemic is one that has garnered significant attention, warranting governmental efforts to reduce the substantial misuse of opioids and the addiction and overdose deaths that occur as a result thereof both nationally and locally. Such efforts should come as no surprise. The misuse of opioids continues to increase nationwide. The Centers for Disease …

Twitter has undoubtedly been a hegemon amongst social media platforms, particularly because it is a platform used by some of the world’s most influential people and companies. The government, and President Trump, is no exception, as President Trump uses his personal Twitter account, @realDonaldTrump to make comments, statements, and direct questions to the public. The …

A new report released by the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) details a previously secret surveillance operation conducted by the DEA from 2008 to 2013. The program, which “took steps to hide the effort from defendants and courts,” sought to identify potential drug traffickers by issuing administrative subpoenas to vendors in order to gain …

When designing intellectual property laws, the struggle inherent in legislating is designing a law that will ensure that creators and inventors have adequate incentives to continue revealing new knowledge to the public while also not overly limiting the public’s ability to interact with prior works or express their own useful ideas. This balance has been …

Adults who smoke have been compensated for negative health effects of smoking, when the side effects of smoking were not fully and properly explained.  An adult who doesn’t follow a safety label on a piece of heavy equipment because it is not noticeable enough can bring a lawsuit if they are injured when using that …

News broke last week that that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (“FEMA”) provided the personal information of 2.3 million natural disaster survivors to a contractor working for the agency’s Transitional Sheltering Assistance program. The individuals whose information was exposed included survivors of hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria and the 2017 California wildfires. The contractor to …

The Patriots and the Rams weren’t the only ones going butting heads this past Super Bowl. As many of us have likely seen through one medium or another, back in February Bud Light aired a ballsy ad during this year’s Super Bowl, and the target was brewing mega-corp MillerCoors. The spot, called Special Delivery, depicts …

Facebook recently announced the use of new technology to prevent the sharing of non-consensual intimate images, most commonly referred to as “revenge porn.” Facebook will now use “machine learning and artificial intelligence” to “proactively detect near nude images or videos that are shared without permission on Facebook or Instagram,” according to the company’s Global Head …

It has been 18 years since the European Union (EU) developed an EU-wide copyright law platform. Following implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in 2018, EU lawmakers began working on new regulations within intellectual property. Of the 24 articles in its new copyright directive, Article 13 has caused the most controversy. Article 13, …

On February 28, 2019, West Virginia Governor Jim Justice signed Senate Bill 267 which requires the state’s Board of Education to adopt and fund a policy describing the computer science instruction students receive at each grade level in K-12 schools. This move by Governor Justice makes West Virginia the first state to require a computer …