Dec 19, 2014 | Archives, Lead Articles, Number 4, Print Edition, Volume 47
In the spring of 2013, the attention of many turned to one of the largest jackpots available in the history of the Powerball multistate lottery. Eventually, it was reported that Pedro Quezada of New Jersey was the sole winner of the prize. Quezada opted to take a $211...
Dec 19, 2014 | Archives, Lead Articles, Number 4, Print Edition, Volume 47
For decades, the Supreme Court has expressly declined to address whether the Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination prohibits the State from using evidence of a non-testifying defendant’s pre-arrest silence in its case-in-chief. But it did so last term in...
Dec 19, 2014 | Archives, Lead Articles, Number 4, Print Edition, Volume 47
Americans and their historians have long viewed constitution-making in the Founding Era as a local event with global repercussions. It is a story of American ideals and interests in which American drafters, voters, and ratifiers made key decisions. Americans then...
Dec 19, 2014 | Archives, Notes, Number 4, Print Edition, Volume 47
Defamation suits involving anonymous online speech swing between extremes: Some cases involve vulgar postings meant to harass and ridicule, while others take on a whistleblower-like significance in exposing possible political or corporate malfeasance. Despite the...
Dec 19, 2014 | Archives, Notes, Number 4, Print Edition, Volume 47
Two separate, but related, stories represent a growing debate permeating throughout the competitive atmosphere of Massachusetts high school athletics. At the 2010 Western Massachusetts Division I girls’ field hockey championship game, the two title contenders were...
Dec 19, 2014 | Archives, Lead Articles, Number 4, Print Edition, Volume 47
The concept of a legal remedy is an old tenant of both the English and the American legal systems. At one time, based on the very remedies they had jurisdiction to provide litigants, American courts were split in two, with courts of equity and courts of law. Remedies...
