BY DANA TURJMAN — On January 17, 2014, the U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari to review two cases challenging law enforcement’s authority to conduct a warrantless search of an arrestee’s cell phone. The petitioners in the cases, United States v. Wurie and Riley v. California, argued that their Fourth Amendment rights were violated when police […]
BY AMANDA PARRA — Pedro Jimenez, a partner at Jones Day and a former University of Miami Law Review member, has been keeping busy as he builds Jones Day’s new Miami office (and first in Florida) from the ground up. Pedro, a Miami native, graduated magna cum laude from the University of Miami School of […]
BY GINA RHODES — Last weekend, the University of Miami Law Review hosted its annual symposium, “Leading From Below,” with this year’s focus on district court judges influencing courts above them through their decisions. The two-day symposium began with a Keynote Address by The Honorable Jack B. Weinstein, a renowned district court judge in the […]
David Tilden (J.D. ’07), a former Articles and Comments Editor for the University of Miami Law Review, has been elected as a shareholder of Hanft Fride, a professional association of attorneys in Duluth, Minnesota. From the official Hanft Fride release: Tilden practices in civil litigation and has been with Hanft Fride since 2008. He is […]
BY HONORABLE EDWARD J. DAMICH — The Copyright Act of 1976 was a marvelous achievement. It clarified, redesigned, and updated copyright law and brought it into the era of the photocopier, the tape recorder, and cable TV. Over twenty years in the making, the Copyright Act’s singular misfortune was the timing of its completion, which […]
