On October 24, 2018, the Fourth District Court of Appeal of the State of Florida decided in G.A.Q.L. v. State of Florida that under the Fifth Amendment, a minor could not be compelled to “disclose the contents of his own mind” by providing passwords for a cell phone and iTunes account. The decision follows other …
The Indiana Supreme Court recently ruled in Daniels v. FanDuel that daily fantasy sports (DFS) sites can use “the names and statistics of college football players without [their] consent and compensation.” DFS sites facilitate in game wagering, “a popular form of betting that involves teams and individual players”. A football bettor, for example, could wager …
It’s not a pleasant topic of conversation. Execution practices by American states have drawn intense debate and controversy practically since theys began. On November 1st, Edmund Zagorski, an inmate in Nashville, Tennessee, was executed by electric chair. Zagorski was the first inmate in five years to die by electrocution in Tennessee, and only the second …
Almost fifty years into America’s anti-narcotics domestic and foreign policy initiatives, launched with Nixon’s signing of the Controlled Substances Act (colloquially referred to as the “War on Drugs”), the arms race between international drug cartels and the law enforcement agencies tasked with stopping them soldiers on. Still a centerpiece of policy decisions by today’s politicians, …
In 2017, North Carolina experienced the nation’s second-highest increase in opioid-related deaths. This spike includes a total of 1,118 people who died last year by use of fentanyl and other fentanyl analogues. Fentanyl is used for post-surgery pain management and is 100 times stronger than morphine, and 50 times stronger than heroin. Analogues (drugs that …
Earlier this year the Canadian Senate voted to pass Bill C-45, known as the Cannabis Act, and will effectively make recreational marijuana legal for adults. Marijuana will not be sold in the same locations as alcohol or tobacco and will be available from drug retailers regulated by provinces and territories or from federally licensed producers. …
Over the past couple of years, Apple has sued semiconductor manufacturer Qualcomm in three different countries, with its United States claim seeking approximately $1 billion in damages. In its complaint, Apple alleged that Qualcomm was “withholding” that sum “as retaliation for [Apple] responding truthfully to law enforcement agencies investigating [Qualcomm].” In a major development in …
For the first time ever, the FBI forced a suspect to use his own face to unlock his phone. Grant Michalski’s home was being searched in connection to a child pornography charge that would be filed later that month. According to the affidavit in support of the search warrant Michalski “was required by law enforcement …
In 2015, the Obama Administration’s FCC passed the Open Internet Order which promoted net neutrality by imposing regulations on broadband internet providers. Now, in a lengthy brief of counter-arguments filed on October 11, 2018, the Trump Administration’s FCC claimed that they never had the legal authority to enact such an order. What happened? Net neutrality …
According to the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs there are currently 4,858 registered objects orbiting the Earth. The Union of Concerned Scientist’s Satellite Database states of those 4,858 objects, 1,886 of them are operational satellites. The objects are registered to 78 different countries. The country with the most objects registered is the United …