In recent years, tens of thousands of unaccompanied children from Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador have fled to the United States. Most have experienced “horrendous trauma” as a result of swelling gang activity, drug ...

"[M]isunderstandingsand neglect occasion more mischief in the world than even malice and wickedness. At all events, the two latter are of less frequent occurrence."In November of 2006, the residents of Michigan went to ...

Picture a high-crime, inner-city neighborhood plagued with gang violence that neighboring communities generally try to avoid. In response to these dangerous conditions, law enforcement police the area more strictly to ...

Is the owner of an inn or a bed and breakfast engaged primarily in the business of managing real property or primarily in the business of providing services to mainly transient customers? What about the owner of a vacation ...

Four kilos is a lot of cocaine. But should it warrant life in prison? In 1998, Louisiana’s punishment for possessing over four hundred grams of cocaine was thirty to sixty years imprisonment at hard labor and a fine of ...

Over the last ten years, various state and local governments in the United States have declared states of emergency that raise concerns over the protection of civil liberties. In response, this Article recommends that the ...

In nearly every respect, Hurricane Katrina represents a watershed for the Louisiana Gulf Coast region, the marker by which the people here divide time. For the body of case law establishing the rights of policyholders and ...

Proving pretext is the crux of virtually every employment- discrimination case brought under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act: an act intended to discourage discrimination in the workplace and provide a remedy for those ...

Congress strikes at the core of state sovereignty when it disenfranchises voters. Yet demands for national disenfranchisement laws have become pervasive since the 2016 election, and Congress has a ready model: a federal ...