Tag: Constitutional Law

Immoral Incarceration: How a Technological Glitch is Holding Arizona Prisoners Past Their Proper Release Date

The following blog discusses an Arizona prison’s purchase of Arizona Correctional Information System (“ACIS”) software and the system’s subsequent incompatibility with recent legislation seeking to reduce sentences for non-violent drug offenders. The inability of ACIS to re-calculate these individuals’ new release dates has resulted in the wrongful imprisonment of hundreds of incarcerated persons otherwise eligible for earlier release. … Read More Immoral Incarceration: How a Technological Glitch is Holding Arizona Prisoners Past Their Proper Release Date

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Talk About An Inferiority Complex: Supreme Court to Decide Constitutionality of PTAB Appointments

The Supreme Court granted certiorari to answer the question of whether PTAB judges are constitutional. Considering whether the appointment of Administrative Patent Judges violates the Appointments Clause of the Constitution, the Federal Circuit determined that PTAB judges were unconstitutionally appointed and severed the limitations on the judges’ removability. As a result, over 100 cases have been remanded to the PTAB for rehearing. The Supreme Court will now determine if PTAB judges were unconstitutionally appointed and, if so, how to cure the violation.… Read More Talk About An Inferiority Complex: Supreme Court to Decide Constitutionality of PTAB Appointments

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The Future of Facial Recognition Technology: A Balancing Act Between Costs and Benefits

Facial recognition software has proven to be a powerful tool for police to investigate crimes and catch criminals, but at what cost to peoples’ civil liberties? The technology has presented several inherent risks, particularly when it comes to bias and the invasion of peoples’ privacy. Currently, the technology is widely unregulated, but significant strides have been taken by lawmakers that indicate it is time to take action to create and enforce regulations. The question lingering is how law enforcement’s utilization of the technology can align with the privacy of citizens under the Fourth Amendment.… Read More The Future of Facial Recognition Technology: A Balancing Act Between Costs and Benefits

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¬Could The Invention Of A New Printer Ink Made With Colloidal Photonic Crystals Be The Latest Defense To The Age Old Battle Against Counterfeit Currency?

  POSTED BY Emily O’Toole Article I Section 8 of The United States Constitution provides Congress with the authority to regulate and coin money in Clause 5.  Clause 6 also grants Congress the authority to punish those that create counterfeit money.  The ability to punish counterfeiters, however, is contingent on the ability to catch counterfeiters. … Read More ¬Could The Invention Of A New Printer Ink Made With Colloidal Photonic Crystals Be The Latest Defense To The Age Old Battle Against Counterfeit Currency?

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