BRIDGET STEIN—Real Housewife Erika Girardi titled her New York Times Bestseller, A Pretty Mess, but little did she know her life would become one two years later. The Real Housewives franchise is known mostly as a guilty pleasure reality television show. However, quite a lot can be learned from the current legal battle for the […]
FAY SHAULSON—On October 1, 2021, H.B. 833, also known as the Protecting DNA Privacy Act, went into effect in Florida. The Act heightens current protections of genetic information by clarifying the extent to which individuals own their genetic information and establishing separate criminal penalties for each instance of intentional collection, retention, maintenance, disclosure, submission, analysis, […]
BAYLA SANDMAN—On October 21, 2021, Alec Baldwin fired a prop gun on the set of “Rust,” killing Halyna Hutchins, the film’s director of photography, and injuring Joel Souza, the film’s director. Presently, it is unclear who from the film will be charged and what they will be charged with. There is no doubt that there […]
MYLES CRANDALL—1968 was a year of protest and innovation. Coalitions in California, led by students of color, organized with demands including admitting more students of color to colleges, hiring more diverse faculties, and funding scholarly programs centered on the contributions and needs of minority communities. Following months of protests, San Francisco State University and UC […]
CHELSEA OLIVERA—The legal and policy momentum to curb pharmaceutical pay-for-delay deals is ramping up. On September 22, 2021, Humana and Centene, two health insurance companies, individually filed lawsuits in the U.S. District Court of New Jersey against Merck, a pharmaceutical manufacturer. The health insurance companies alleged that Merck engaged in anticompetitive “pay-for-delay” practices that caused […]
