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Public Service Loan Forgiveness? How Improvements To A Student Debt Cancellation Program Can Help To Deliver Gideon's Promise, Jane Fox, Winston Berkman-Breen

Journal of Law and Policy

Student debt is a generational crisis facing forty-five million Americans today. Among those with the highest rates of student loan debt are attorneys and among attorneys, those working in public interest have been hit particularly hard as they carry these same high debt rates yet earn low salaries. While student debt has run roughshod over Americans seeking higher education for almost forty years, another crisis has ravaged Americans who are swept up in the criminal legal system. Mass incarceration and mass policing have sent millions to prisons and jails and separated millions of parents and children through family courts. Often …

Out Of Captivity: Preventing Captive Audience Meetings In The Age Of National Labor Relations Board Flip-Flopping, Rebecca Gans

Journal of Law and Policy

Captive audience meetings are one of the most effective tools available to companies fighting union campaigns. This tactic, despite being inherently coercive, is currently legal. In April 2022, the General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board released a memorandum stating that the Board intends to consider these mandatory meetings illegal, arguing that the right to refrain embraced by the anti-labor Taft-Hartley Act should be applied here in a pro-labor context. While this ban would be a positive shift in policy for labor rights, due to frequent flip-flopping by the Board, it would almost certainly be undone by the next …

Impact Of Community-Based Care Model On Child Welfare Professionals: A Study Of Workload, Job Satisfaction, And Turnover Intent, Kerri Taylor

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Much of the research on child welfare workers is in a traditional service model. However, there is a lack of empirical studies regarding childcare workers in a community-based care model. This study examines whether transitioning to the community-based model has positively impacted workers’ perspectives regarding turnover intention, job satisfaction, and workload manageability. A cross-sectional survey design was used with convenient sampling from a Texas Department of Family Protective Service Region that transitioned to the CBC model. The single source continuum contractor employed a sample of 125 potential respondents in the selected region. A total of 43 permanency workers responded to …

Grappling With Our Own Errors: Lessons From State V. Blake, Alicia Ochsner Utt

Washington and Lee Law Review Online

After fifty years of a failed war on drugs, many states are just now beginning to take steps toward attempting to repair a half-century of harm. By examining the response of Washington’s government at the executive and legislative levels to the Washington Supreme Court’s decision in State v. Blake, this Note identifies some key factors that must be present in the paths forward for all states in their own processes of reform. The stakeholders involved in transforming the criminal legal system must ensure that relief from prior drug-related convictions is automatic, geographically standardized, and complete. Any form of relief …

What's Love Got To Do With It? Redefining Domestic Violence To Close Federal Firearm Loopholes, Cecilia Shields-Auble

Maine Law Review

Closing the “boyfriend loophole” by expanding the definition of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence to include the abuse of “dating partners” further entrenches the law into an unworkable quasi-marital framework rooted in an antiquated understanding of domestic violence. The federal firearm prohibition would more effectively target high-risk offenders if 18 U.S.C. § 921(a)(33)(A) were revised to eliminate the quasi-marital framework and reflect a modern understanding of the power and control dynamics involved in intimate partner violence. This Comment begins by summarizing the emergence of federal domestic violence law and describing the limitations of the Lautenberg Amendment. It then examines …

Dabus, An Artificial Intelligence Machine, Invented Something New And Useful, But The Uspto Is Not Buying It, Trevor F. Ward

Maine Law Review

U.S. patent laws are designed to promote science and the useful arts. They grant temporary monopoly rights to inventors in order to incentivize inventive activity. In the United States, patent rights revolve around the inventor. However, what happens when an Artificial Intelligence (AI) machine invents? Who deserves monopoly rights to the invention? Who will be incentivized by such monopolies? Do U.S. laws protect companies’ investments in AI? In 2019, for the first time in history, an AI machine called DABUS was listed as an inventor on two U.S. patent applications. The United States Patent and Trademark Office denied the applications, …

Fischman Serves As Witness In Endangered Species Act Hearing, James Owsley Boyd

Keep Up With the Latest News from the Law School (blog)

An environmental law expert from the Indiana University Maurer School of Law served as an expert witness today (April 18) as part of a congressional hearing on the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Professor Rob Fischman participated in one of three panels convened by the U.S. House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water, Wildlife, and Fisheries as lawmakers consider four Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolutions challenging the implementation of certain aspects of the ESA.

It's About Time: An Analysis Of Name, Image, And Likeness Legislation In The United States, Taylor Henderson

Jeffrey S. Moorad Sports Law Journal (1994 - )

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Dealer's Choice: Pressuring The Ncaa To Allow Student-Athletes To Participate In Certain Gambling Activities, Amanda Daoud

Jeffrey S. Moorad Sports Law Journal (1994 - )

No abstract provided.

Some Legal And Practical Challenges In The Investigation Of Cybercrime, Ritz Carr

Cybersecurity Undergraduate Research Showcase

According to the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), in 2021, the United States lost around $6.9 billion to cybercrime. In 2022, that number grew to over $10.2 billion (IC3, 2022). In one of many efforts to combat cybercrimes, at least 40 states “introduced or considered more than 250 bills or resolutions that deal significantly with cybersecurity” with 24 states officially enacting a total of 41 bills (National Conference on State Legislatures, 2022).

The world of cybercrime evolves each day. Nevertheless, challenges arise when we investigate and prosecute cybercrime, which will be examined in the following collection of essays that highlight …

Congressional Oversight Of U.S. Government Programs, Bert Chapman

Libraries Faculty and Staff Presentations

Provides detailed overview of how the U.S. Congress conducts oversight of federal agency programs. Contents include a letter from a member of Congress to an agency head concerning an environmental development in Indiana, information on the foundations of congressional oversight, details on how Congress may require agency reports on various subjects in public laws, an example of a congressionally mandated report by the Department of Defense, documentation of congressional funding of individual federal agencies, examples of congressional committee hearings, congressional committee issuance of oversight and investigative reports which may include dissenting opinions, Congressional Budget Office cost estimates on congressional committee …

S23rs Sgr No. 6 (Support Of Florida Academia), Lailah Williams, Chloe Berry, Lillie Bourgeois, Corbitt Driskell, An Tra, Holden White

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

To Urge and Request Student Government support for Floridian Educators and Administrators

S23rs Sgr No. 16 (Turbovote), Lailah Williams, Emma Long

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

To Urge and Request LSU Administration to indefinitely fund TurboVote in order to continue the promotion of civic engagement on campus

S23rs Sgr No. 19 (Construction Communication), Tabari Bowser, Cloe Edwards, Elizabeth Laurent

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

To Urge and Request the LSU Administration to offer greater forms of communication about current construction efforts affecting the LSU campus and the lives of LSU faculty, staff, and students

S23rs Sgr No. 21 (Audubon Property Damage), Elizabeth Laurent, Tabari Bowser, Cloe Edwards

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

To Urge and Request LSU Facility Services and the LSU Administration to prioritize the reimbursement of the LSU Psychology Department, following their payment of property damages within Audubon Hall

S23rs Sgr No. 25, Anna Jackson, Zachary Broussard

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

To Urge and Request administration to update the Schedule booklet. The current Schedule booklet is inaccessible, difficult to read, and outdated in comparison to other universities

S23rs Sgfb No. 5 (Iftar Event), Saad Tanveer, Rami Abdalla, Harris Quadir

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

To appropriate $1000 from the initiatives account to help fund an Iftar hosted by the LSU Muslim Student Association

S23rs Sgr No. 18 (Ods Priority Scheduling), Brett Robertson

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

To Urge and Request the University Registrar to recognize and continue to implement priority scheduling for all students registered with Disability Services

S23rs Sgr No. 20 (Ada Plan), Cloe Edwards, Tabari Bowser, Elizabeth Laurent

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

To Urge and Request that LSU Facility Services communicate the details of the ADA Transition Plan, distribute it throughout the LSU Community, and place elevator repairs as the top priorities

S23rs Sgfb No. 8 (Feminine Hygiene Disposal Bins), Emma Long, Lily Small

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

To appropriate a maximum $800 to fund up to 60 feminine hygiene disposal bins across campus

S23rs Sgr No. 23, Noah Waguespack

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

To Urge and Request support for National Guard and Reservist students to have Basic Military Training and Job Schooling added to the Louisiana Board of Regents mobilization and activation policy

S23rs Sgcr's No. 1-30, Harris Quadir

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

To appoint specified persons to their respective position

S23rs Sgr No. 22, Gabby Boodhoo, Alicia Cerquone, Prakash Dangal, Terry Geraldsen, Cullen Hodges, Lauren Wise, Jocelyn Wood

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

To Urge and Request Louisiana State University to implement the recommendations established by the Graduate Student Healthcare Crisis committee

S23rs Sgr No. 24, Samantha Staggs

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

To commend, congratulate, and show appreciation on behalf of LSU’s Student Body toward Lizzie Shaw for her immense dedication, passion, and service to Student Government and the LSU community as a whole

S23rs Sgfb No. 7 (Stationary Bikes), Kelsey Womack, Brett Robertson

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

To appropriate a maximum of two thousand ($2,000) dollars from the Initiatives account to fund stationary bikes in the LSU Library

S23rs Sgfb No. 6, Hamood Qureshi

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

To appropriate $1000 from the Student Initiatives Account to Purchase 996 Donuts for Night of A 1000 Donuts

S23rs Sgfb No. 9 (Promise Scholars), Elizabeth Laurent

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

To appropriate a maximum of $7,500 from the Student Government Surplus Account for the funding of General Program Supplies and Participant Supplies for the LSU Promise Scholars Program

S23rs Sgfb No. 10, Harris Quadir

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

To appropriate a maximum of $2,000.00 from the Student Government Initiatives Account for the purchase of a rotary trimmer and other supplies for the purpose of increasing efficiency in the Art and Design VizLab

S23rs Sgr No. 10 (Encourage Faculty Senate Resolution), Calvin Feldt, Samantha Staggs

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

To Urge and Request LSU’s faculty to integrate the language proposed in LSU Faculty Senate Resolution 23-02 establishing expectations around course grading and communication

S23rs Sgr No. 11 (Additional Students To Faculty Senate Committees), John Sweat, Calvin Feldt, Emma Long, Lailah Williams

Student Senate Enrolled Legislation

To Urge and Request the Louisiana State University Faculty Senate to include at least one student member on every faculty senate committee, and to make student members voting members