ESTHER MARIA PONCE DE LEON — On Tuesday, September 24, 2019, the European Court of Justice (ECJ), the European Union’s highest court, declined to extend privacy laws beyond EU member states. In Google v. Commission Nationale de I’informatique et des Libertés (CNIL), the ECJ held that “[t]he operator of a search engine is not required to […]
Henry Moreno —On July 3, 2019, The United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit dealt a massive blow to Amazon’s liability armor. In Oberdorf v. Amazon, The Third Circuit reversed summary judgment and held Amazon was susceptible to products liability claims arising from injuries sustained by third-party vendor products. Postured under diversity jurisdiction, […]
BEN KENNEDY — Affordable housing in the United States has been a hot-button issue as rents and home prices have been rising steadily in recent years. Median rent growth has dramatically outpaced wage growth making finding affordable housing difficult for many Americans. This issue has been particularly troublesome in large coastal cities such as San […]
BECKY ESQUENAZI—U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) issues thousands of detainers per year. An immigration detainer, also referred to as an ICE hold, is a written notice from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that informs local law enforcement agencies that DHS intends to assume custody of an alien after their release. By issuing an […]
CAMERON CHUBACK—For the last two decades, the United States has faced a devastating opioid crisis. More than 130 people die every day of opioid overdoses, and approximately 400,000 deaths in total have occurred since the crisis’s inception, 47,000 of which came in 2017 alone. Moreover, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reported that […]
