Category Archives: Insights

Legal “Treble”: Copyright Infringement Lawsuits Leave Several Companies Facing the Music

ASHLEY EMANUEL—With the increasing popularity of social media and digital marketing, many companies trying to keep up with this year’s latest trends are now facing the music over their social media posts. From sports teams to restaurant chains and hotels, the lack of a copyright license for songs used in social media posts have left […]

When Did War Crimes Stop Being War Crimes?

IARA DIRCIE—On November 29, 1947, the United Nations (“UN”) Resolution 181—known as the Partition Plan—proposed dividing Mandatory Palestine into a Jewish state and an Arab state, with Jerusalem under an international regime. However, what the UN envisioned as a path to peace and harmony instead sparked immediate internal conflict in the region. When Israel, acting […]

Trouble Bruen: The Ambiguities of Second Amendment Analysis

JACKSON GILLESPIE—Gino Recchia, a firearms dealer, filed suit in Massachusetts federal court on October 4th, alleging that a state law that went into effect on October 2nd, which bans the possession and sale of assault-style firearms and large capacity feeding devices (LCMs), violates his Second Amendment right to bear arms. Recchia’s complaint is just one […]

DOJ v. Visa: What Can We Expect as Consumers? 

BARAK KOREN—Americans spend over four trillion dollars using debit cards each year. But what really happens behind the scenes when you pull out your debit card at the grocery store to tap and pay? To illustrate, say you make a fifty-dollar purchase using your Visa debit card, issued by Chase Bank. This transaction will charge […]

Chasing the Bag: FTC Seeks to Block Merger Between Purveyors of “Accessible Luxury” Handbags

ALEJANDRO OTERO—As the hip crowd gathered around the runway in Chelsea for New York Fashion Week, the case for the future of the fashion industry began in Lower Manhattan. On September 9, 2024, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York began hearing arguments in the FTC’s case against the merger […]