Feb 27, 2020 | Vol 51 Book 1
If you are unfamiliar with daily fantasy sports (DFS), you nevertheless may be all too familiar with DFS companies DraftKings and FanDuel, thanks to their 2015 blitz of advertisements plastered across train stations, radios, television, and trashcans. Seemingly...
Feb 27, 2020 | Vol 51 Book 1
When state legislatures are unresponsive to their constituents, the ballot initiative provides one of the few forms of relief available to those caught in such a “legislative strait jacket.” The ballot initiative, a process by which citizens of a state vote directly...
Feb 27, 2020 | Vol 51 Book 1
On July 20, 2016, the Attorney General of Massachusetts issued a new interpretation (Enforcement Notice) of the Massachusetts Assault Weapons Ban of 1998, emphasizing the illegality of “copy” and “duplicate” assault rifles, which effectively banned the sale of all...
Feb 27, 2020 | Vol 51 Book 1
Recently, family members of victims of terror attacks filed a series of lawsuits against social media companies such as Twitter, Facebook, and Google. In Fields v. Twitter, the widow of an American killed in Amman, Jordan, sued Twitter for providing “material support”...
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...