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Speech-And-Display Laws: Balancing Physicians' Free Speech Rights And States' Interests In The Context Of Abortion, Emily Ruppert Oct 2018

Speech-And-Display Laws: Balancing Physicians' Free Speech Rights And States' Interests In The Context Of Abortion, Emily Ruppert

Journal of Law and Policy

“The question is not pro-abortion or anti-abortion, the question is who makes the decision: a woman and her physician, or the government.” – Gloria Steinem


From Guns That Do Not Shoot To Foreign Staplers: Has The Supreme Court’S Materiality Standard Under Escobar Provided Clarity For The Health Care Industry About Fraud Under The False Claims Act?, Deborah R. Farringer Jul 2018

From Guns That Do Not Shoot To Foreign Staplers: Has The Supreme Court’S Materiality Standard Under Escobar Provided Clarity For The Health Care Industry About Fraud Under The False Claims Act?, Deborah R. Farringer

Brooklyn Law Review

In June of 2016, the U.S. Supreme Court issued an opinion in the case of Universal Health Services, Inc. v. United States ex rel. Escobar, in order to resolve a circuit split regarding the viability of the “implied false certification” theory of liability under the False Claims Act (FCA). This article examines what has happened in the twelve months since the Escobar opinion by observing the reaction and subsequent arguments arising out of the Department of Justice and exploring the analyses of district courts and courts of appeals in trying to apply a new and more demanding materiality standard as …


Passing The Baton: The Effect Of The International Olympic Committee's Weak Anti-Doping Laws In Dealing With The 2016 Russian Olympic Team, Saroja Cuffey Jun 2018

Passing The Baton: The Effect Of The International Olympic Committee's Weak Anti-Doping Laws In Dealing With The 2016 Russian Olympic Team, Saroja Cuffey

Brooklyn Journal of International Law

Following the investigation of a Russian state-sponsored doping ploy prior to the Olympic Games in Rio 2016; the International Olympic Committee (IOC) decided against a blanket ban of the Russian Olympic team. Instead; it allowed athletes’ individual international federations to decide whether Russian athletes could compete. In following the various anti-doping laws in place; the IOC sought to protect and give justice to clean athletes around the world. This Note argues that they did not achieve this result; due to the anti-doping laws in place and the actors applying these laws. It suggests that there should be a universal anti-doping …