Apr 15, 2006 | Notes, Number 3, Print Edition, Volume 39
In 1999, smuggled aliens constituted fourteen percent of all apprehensions made at the U.S.-Mexico border [the border], up from nine percent in 1997. That number has increased as the human smuggling industry grows in popularity and necessity. Fearing they cannot...
Apr 15, 2006 | Notes, Number 3, Print Edition, Volume 39
Medical advancements currently allow parents to undergo preconception or neonatal genetic testing to determine the likelihood of a childhood defect. The advent of genetic testing has compelled courts to develop novel causes of action based on traditional negligence...
Apr 15, 2006 | Notes, Number 3, Print Edition, Volume 39
Few would disagree with doctors who claim that the high cost of medical malpractice insurance premiums is unsustainable. The disagreement among legislators and those in the medical community, however, revolves around the cause of the high medical malpractice...
Apr 15, 2006 | Notes, Number 3, Print Edition, Volume 39
Although Nathaniel Hawthorne has forever immortalized the crime of adultery as an icon of Massachusetts’ Puritan heritage, most are surprised to learn that adultery is still a crime in the Commonwealth—a felony, in fact, carrying a maximum sentence of three...
Apr 15, 2006 | Notes, Number 3, Print Edition, Volume 39
The media relies on the First Amendment when publishing truthful information that infringes on an individual’s right to privacy or violates a statute. The media’s First Amendment right, however, is not absolute. In Florida Star v. B.J.F., the Florida...
