Feb 27, 2020 | Vol 51 Book 1
Before the beginning of the financial crisis in 2007, the residential and commercial real estate markets experienced a pricing bubble burst, which led to disastrous effects. In the years leading up to the crisis, the American real estate sector was booming: housing...
Feb 27, 2020 | Vol 51 Book 1
At ten o’clock on a Sunday night, while her children were in bed, flashing police lights suddenly flooded Congresswoman Katherine Clark’s home. Clark looked outside and saw police cruisers barricading both ends of her street and officers with “long guns” facing her...
Feb 27, 2020 | Vol 51 Book 1
For many years after its passage, civil litigants predominantly ignored Title IX of the Organized Crime Control Act of 1970, also known as the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO). Originally enacted as a result of multiple investigations into the...
Feb 27, 2020 | Vol 51 Book 1, Volume 51
This Article will examine a variety of perspectives on the U.S. embargo on Cuba, or the “blockade” as the Cuban government refers to it. First, this Article provides historical context to the U.S. laws limiting trade with, and travel to, the island of Cuba. Describing...
Feb 27, 2020 | Vol. 50 - Book 3
Parents’ rights to the custody and care of their children are fundamental, recognized and protected by the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and Article 10 of the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights. Children also have a respective constitutional interest...