Suffolk Journal of Trial & Appellate Advocacy

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• Sports Law - Bad Agents or Bad Athletes? Rethinking the Definition of "Student-Athlete" Under the Uniform Athlete Agents Act - Williamson v. Prime Sports Mktg., LLC, 101 F.4th 302 (4th Cir. 2024).
• The Newest Employee Acquisition Tool - AI: Can Anti-Discrimination Law Regulate Bias and Who Should be Liable?(artificial intelligence)
• 'Til Court Do Us Part: Massachusetts SJC Holds Donor Entitled to Ring Upon Broken Engagement - Johnson v. Settino, 245 N.E.3d 196 (Mass. 2024).
• PREDATORS WITH POWER: APPLYING AN OBJECTIVE STANDARD TO ADDRESS SEXUAL ASSAULT AND RAPE OF FEMALES IN PRETRIAL DETENTION.
• META ACTING ON ITS OWN TERMS, OR THE GOVERNMENT'S? NINTH CIRCUIT DISMISSES FIRST AMENDMENT CLAIM - CHILDREN'S HEALTH DEF. V. META PLATFORMS, INC., 112 F.4TH 742 (9TH CIR. 2024).
• BEWARE THE SHADOWS - DISTRICT COURT BROADENS FEDERAL INSIDER TRADING LAWS TO INCLUDE "SHADOW TRADING" - SEC V. PANUWAT, NO. 21-CV-06322-WHO, 2024 WL 4602708 (N.D. CAL. SEPT. 9, 2024).
• CONSTITUTIONAL LAW - REDEFINING THE PULPIT: ANTI-DISCRIMINATION PROTECTIONS THREATENED BY CONTINUOUS EXPANSION OF THE MINISTERIAL EXCEPTION - BILLARD V. CHARLOTTE CATH. HIGHSCH, 101 F.4TH 316 (4TH CIR. 2024).
• ADMINISTRATIVE LAW - AN END TO MENTHOL-FLAVORED ENDS? THIRD CIRCUIT UPHOLDS FDA'S APPLICATION DENIAL FOR MENTHOL-FLAVORED VAPES - LOGIC TECH. DEV. LLC V. UNITED STATES FDA, 84 F.4TH 537 (3D CIR. 2023).
• HOW TO COUNT TO 180 - IT DEPENDS: TOLLING OF TIME FOR PRETRIAL DETENTION IN MASSACHUSETTS.
• TAXES AND CERTAINTY: CHALLENGES IN JUDICIAL REVIEW OF U.S. TAX LEGISLATION.

Featured documents

• 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).
• ARBITRATION - IT DOES NOT MATTER IF YOU READ THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS: THEY DO NOT APPLY ANYWAY - BERMAN V. FREEDOM FIN. NETWORK, LLC, 30 F.4TH 849 (9TH CIR. 2022).
• Editor's note.
• ADMINISTRATIVE LAW - AN END TO MENTHOL-FLAVORED ENDS? THIRD CIRCUIT UPHOLDS FDA'S APPLICATION DENIAL FOR MENTHOL-FLAVORED VAPES - LOGIC TECH. DEV. LLC V. UNITED STATES FDA, 84 F.4TH 537 (3D CIR. 2023).
• CONSTITUTIONAL LAW - DANGERS OF THE SUBSTANTIVE DUE PROCESS STATE-CREATED DANGER EXCEPTION - IRISH V. FOWLER, 979 F.3D 65 (1ST CIR. 2020).
• Family law - expanding trial courts' authority to create contracts during the equitable division of property in a divorce action.
• Work product protection, tax accrual documents, and United States v. Textron, Inc.: why the First Circuit got it right for the wrong reasons.
• Why the plain view doctrine should not apply to digital evidence.
• Say what? Confusion in the courts over what is the proper standard of review for hearsay rulings.(Introduction through IV.The Hearsay Rule and the Multiple Layers of Analysis A. Confusion in the Sixth and Ninth Circuits, p. 1-26)
• Outpatient commitment: the role of counsel in preserving client autonomy.