Suffolk Journal of Trial & Appellate Advocacy

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• CONSTITUTIONAL LAW--MISS ANTI-UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: HOW COURTS EXPANDED JUDICIAL AUTHORITY BY FOREGOING CONSTITUTIONAL AVOIDANCE--GREEN V. MISS USA, LLC, 52 F.4TH 773 (9TH CIR. 2022).
• CONSTITUTIONAL LAW - TIGHTENING THE LOCKS TO THE SCHOOLHOUSE GATE - MAHANOY AREA SCH. DIST. V. B.L., 141 S. CT. 2038 (2021).
• CONSTITUTIONAL LAW - SEXUAL ORIENTATION RECOGNIZED AS PROTECTED CLASS FOR BATSON CHALLENGES - COMMONWEALTH V. CARTER, 172 N.E.3D 367 (MASS. 2021).
• CONSTITUTIONAL LAW - CONCEALING IDENTITY TO RECORD IS NOT AN INTERCEPTION UNDER MASSACHUSETTS WIRETAP STATUTE - CURTATONE V. BARSTOOL SPORTS, INC., 169 N.E.3D 480 (MASS. 2021).
• CRIMINAL LAW - THIRD CIRCUIT HOLDS PROPOSED DRUG CONSUMPTION ROOM IS CRIMINAL VIOLATION OF THE CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES ACT - UNITED STATES V. SAFEHOUSE, 985 F.3D 225 (3RD CIR. 2021).
• GIVE 'EM THE OL' RAZZLE DAZZLE: THE ETHICS OF TRIAL ADVOCACY AND THE CASE OF KYLE RITTENHOUSE.
• SECURITIES LAW - FIRST CIRCUIT ADOPTS IRREVOCABLE LIABILITY AS BOTH NECESSARY AND SUFFICIENT CONDITION FOR DOMESTIC SECURITIES TEST - SEC V. MORRONE, 997 F.3D 52 (1ST CIR. 2021).
• CONSTITUTIONAL LAW - DEVICE SEARCHES ABSENT REASONABLE SUSPICION ALLOW SECURITY INTERESTS TO OUTWEIGH PRIVACY CONCERNS AND AMPLIFY BIAS AT THE U.S. BORDER - ALASAAD V. MAYORKAS, 988 F.3D 8 (1ST CIR. 2021).
• INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION: SUPREME COURT HOLDS DISTRICT COURTS MAY NOT ORDER DISCOVERY FOR USE IN PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION.
• AMERICA'S EXTRAORDINARY AND COMPELLING PROBLEM: AN ASSESSMENT OF THE SENTENCE MODIFICATION PROCESS IN THE FEDERAL DISTRICT COURTS AND THE NEED TO REMOVE THE BUREAU OF PRISON'S GATEKEEPER ROLE.

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• Civil procedure--Supreme Court's Vaden decision regarding federal question jurisdiction does not apply to diversity jurisdiction--Northport Health Services of Arkansas, LLC v. Rutherford, 605 F.3d 483 (8th Cir. 2010).
• A question of taste: touchstones for determining the certifiability of classwide claims for declaratory and injunctive relief under Rule 23 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.
• Lights, camera, mistrial: conflicting federal court local rules and conflicting theories on the aggregate effect of cameras on courtroom proceedings.
• State secrets are a privilege, not a right: can foreign victims of extraordinary rendition and torture overcome the state secrets privilege using the alien tort statute?
• The gun-shy commonwealth: self-defense and concealed carry in post-Heller Massachusetts.
• Evidence of ambiguity: the effect of circuit splits on the interpretation of federal criminal law.
• Spoliation in a digital world: proposing a new standard of culpability in Massachusetts for an adverse inference instruction.
• MORE TARIFFS, MORE PROTECTIONISM.
• The limits of "extraordinary power": a survey of first-degree murder appeals under Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 278, Section 33E.
• Say what? Confusion in the courts over what is the proper standard of review for hearsay rulings.