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Rigid Rideshares And The Driver Flexibility Myth, Seth Goldstein
Rigid Rideshares And The Driver Flexibility Myth, Seth Goldstein
St. John's Law Review
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In 2018, Uber, Lyft, and similar organizations spent $224 million to ensure that Proposition 22 ("Prop. 22") passed in California, reclassifying gig workers as independent contractors, but with some rights not typically guaranteed to independent contractors. Through the most expensive ballot measure in U.S. history at that point, Uber and Lyft argued that to preserve flexibility for drivers, they must remain as independent contractors under the law. However, Prop. 22 did not increase driver benefits nor provide any assurances of flexibility. Many workers in California "regret casting their ballots for Prop. 22" and "feel deceived" by Uber and Lyft. …
Protecting Unsanctioned Street Art Under The Visual Artists Rights Act Of 1990, Thomas Goddard
Protecting Unsanctioned Street Art Under The Visual Artists Rights Act Of 1990, Thomas Goddard
St. John's Law Review
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Before 2013, artists and art enthusiasts would flock to a dilapidated building in Long Island City to view and engage with a vast collection of graffiti and street art murals. The site was filled with over two decades' worth of murals created by legendary street artists such as "Blade" and "Lady Pink." The building, with artists having free reign to paint on the walls of the 200,000 square foot space, became a mecca for graffiti and public art. The community would come in droves to experience the vibrant art and watch performances by rappers and dancers from around the …
The (Un)Fair Credit Reporting Act: How Courts Have Undermined The Protections Of The Fcra, Jagjot Singh
The (Un)Fair Credit Reporting Act: How Courts Have Undermined The Protections Of The Fcra, Jagjot Singh
St. John's Law Review
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In 2001, George Saenz ("Saenz") incurred a medical bill amounting to $512.31. Thereafter, Saenz failed to make timely payments, and the bill went into debt collection. The debt was sold to NCO Financial Systems, Inc. ("NCO"), a creditor, and "NCO accepted a compromise payment [amount] of $333 [as] full satisfaction." In 2003, Saenz requested a copy of his credit report from Trans Union, a credit reporting agency. The report listed the $512.31 debt as outstanding, in error, which Saenz disputed. Trans Union initiated an automated consumer dispute verification ("ACDV") procedure, a system that compares the credit reporting agency's data …
A Simple Solution To An Infinite Problem: Curbing Arbitration Provisions That Exceed The Scope Of The Federal Arbitration Act, Michael Russo
A Simple Solution To An Infinite Problem: Curbing Arbitration Provisions That Exceed The Scope Of The Federal Arbitration Act, Michael Russo
St. John's Law Review
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In 2012, Diana Mey opened a new cell phone line with AT&T Mobility LLC ("Mobility"), the AT&T, Inc. ("AT&T") subsidiary responsible for AT&T's mobile services business in the United States. This required Mey to enter into the AT&T Wireless Customer Agreement, which contained an arbitration clause covering "all disputes and claims" "arising out of or relating to any aspect of the relationship[.]" Further, it applied as between each party's respective "subsidiaries, affiliates, agents, employees, predecessors in interest, successors, and assigns, as well as all authorized or unauthorized users or beneficiaries of services or Devices under this or prior Agreements …
Low-Income Litigants In The Sandbox: Court Record Data And The Legal Technology A2j Market, Claire Johnson Raba
Low-Income Litigants In The Sandbox: Court Record Data And The Legal Technology A2j Market, Claire Johnson Raba
St. John's Law Review
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Katrina was a community college student with two children, trying to juggle work, childcare, and school. During class in the spring of 2018, her phone buzzed incessantly. She looked down to see a message from her roommate saying a process server had shown up at the house to deliver a summons and complaint, naming Katrina in a lawsuit filed in county court by a debt collection company she had never heard of. Katrina turned to the internet for help and found herself overwhelmed with advertisements that began to pop up in her social media feeds trying to get her …
Problems With Authority, Amy J. Griffin
Problems With Authority, Amy J. Griffin
St. John's Law Review
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Judicial decision-making rests on a foundation of unwritten rules—those that govern the weight of authority. Such rules, including the cornerstone principle of stare decisis, are created informally through the internal social practices of the judiciary. Because weight-of-authority rules are largely informal and almost entirely unwritten, we lack a comprehensive account of their content. This raises serious questions—sounding in due process and access to justice—about whether judicial decision-making rests ultimately on judges’ arbitrary and unexamined preferences rather than transparent and deliberative processes. These norms of authority are largely invisible to many, including parties appearing before the courts. They govern the …
Examining Patent Eligibility, Charles Duan
Examining Patent Eligibility, Charles Duan
St. John's Law Review
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A firestorm of debate has surrounded the Supreme Court of the United States’s 2014 decision Alice Corp. Pty. Ltd. v. CLS Bank International on the doctrine of patentable subject matter eligibility under 35 U.S.C. § 101. As the Court’s leading articulation of doctrine, which generally excludes from patenting abstract ideas, laws of nature, and natural phenomena, Alice has been criticized as unpredictably vague and overly constrictive of patentability, with the effect of “decimating” patents, innovation, technological investment, and even the United States’ competitiveness against other nations. To support these criticisms and calls for reform, scholars and practitioners have frequently …
Fee Shifting, Nominal Damages, And The Public Interest, Maureen Carroll
Fee Shifting, Nominal Damages, And The Public Interest, Maureen Carroll
St. John's Law Review
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Half a century ago, Joseph Davis Farrar sued six defendants for seventeen million dollars. Farrar had owned and operated a school for troubled teens, and after one of the students died, the State of Texas obtained a temporary injunction that closed the school. Farrar alleged that the defendants—including William P. Hobby, Jr., the lieutenant governor of Texas—had violated his civil rights in connection with the closure. After ten years of litigation, a jury ruled in favor of five of the six defendants, but it “found that Hobby had ‘committed an act or acts under color of state law that …