Lopez v. Apple Inc., brought about due to the intrusive recording of private conversations by Apple’s Siri voice assistant, concluded in late 2025 with a landmark $95 million settlement. The research of Christopher Muhawe JSD ’23 proved to be vital to the determination; his article with Masooda Bashir was a cornerstone of the legal strategy […]
The federal government’s moves to reform the rules surrounding nuclear energy plants might have had the effect of streamlining the process of bringing new reactors online and, thus, creating more nuclear energy for the United States’ power grid. Federal agencies making changes behind closed doors, without input from experts, has chilled scientists, however. Moving quickly […]
Professors Ralph Brubaker and Robert Lawless were both featured in the commentary featured of the American Bankruptcy Institute’s blog, Rochelle’s Daily Wire. Their commentary discussed the most recent decision in the ongoing controversy over the propriety and legitimacy of so-called “Texas Two-Step” mass-tort bankruptcies. The decision, from the Fourth Circuit, continues to stoke opinion and […]
President Donald Trump issued an executive order that would end birthright citizenship as commonly understood. More than a year later, the Supreme Court is set to hear arguments on the case, and Professors Jason Mazzone and Vikram Amar believe the order should be invalidated. Writing at Justia Verdict, the professors argue, again, that the order […]
The Justice Department’s efforts to return indictments against six members of Congress were turned down by a grand jury in what Professor andrew Leipold called a “rare” denial. Good Morning America spoke to Leipold for their investigation of the cases, with Leipold commenting, “The most obvious answer is that the government is being aggressive in […]
Drug labels required by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration are meant to help ensure safe and effective use of prescription drugs; however, recent court decisions have problematically treated those labels as key evidence in patent infringement cases, with drug companies engaging in what Professor Jacob Sherkow calls “patent gamesmanship” that could potentially limit access […]
Professor Robin Fretwell Wilson recently helped craft draft legislation with Utah Representative Mike Peterson that would empowered college students to opt out of assignments if the coursework violates their “sincerely held religious and conscience beliefs.” She testified before the Utah Senate Education Committee on February 25 at the invitation of Peterson on Utah House Bill […]
The Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, deploying forces to large cities and deporting individuals without due process, has created a “terrifying and vindictive America,” Professor Lauren Aronson writes in a letter to the editor published by the Chicago Sun-Times. “My heart has been broken over and over again by my clients’ suffering, and the only solace […]
Holding Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents responsible for constitutional violations might lie with state legislatures. The New York Times, investigating legal mechanisms by which individuals could bring cases against ICE, cited Professor Jason Mazzone’s work examining the Illinois Bivens Act, which has promise according to Mazzone. Read the full New York Times article.
As Democrat-led states seek new laws that allow individuals to sue federal agents in response to tactics used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Reuters quotes Professors Jason Mazzone and Vikram Amar on a law that Illinois recently passed. Their scholarship, originally published in Justia Verdict, called the Illinois law “innovative” but “imperfect” as a […]