By Staci Fonner, Assoc. Print Editor Duquesne’s own Dean Emeritus Nicholas Cafardi is one of only a handful of people being considered for ambassador to the Holy See, representing the interests of Vatican City. “It’s an honor to be considered,” Cafardi said. To his knowledge, the position will be filled […]
by: Bridget J. Daley Individual freedoms are the backbone of America, those rights that allow us—we the people—to stand tall and affirm faith and conviction in whichever belief system we hold above others. Naturally, in a presidential election year, many of the articles that staff writers pitched focused on heated […]
by: Amy Coleman, Staff Writer Several months ago, Radovan Karadžić opened his pro se defense on Tuesday, October 16, 2012 with a statement that he should be “rewarded for all the good things I have done,” reported the New York Times. The Serbian wartime leader is a controversial figure–loved by […]
by: Will Manolis, Web Editor We are not trolling merrily along. The fear today is not the troll under the bridge, nor the Internet trolls inciting ire and hatred on online forums. The most vile and abhorrent figure in today’s intellectual property (IP) community is the patent troll. What is […]
by: Mary O’Rourke, Staff Writer “Voter ID, which is going to allow Governor Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania: done.” Pennsylvania House Majority Leader Mike Turzai’s comments unknowingly set into motion a hotly contested examination into the validity of Act 18, otherwise known as the Pennsylvania Voter ID Law. […]
by: Matthew Andersen, 1L Contributor In the wake of President Barack Obama’s re-election victory on Nov. 6, nearly 1 million Americans, from all 50 states, have signed petitions to secede from the United States of America. The ironic part of signing petitions for secession is that it is all being […]
by: Jenna R. Smith, Staff Writer Earlier this year, Justice Elena Kagan, writing for the majority of the United States Supreme Court in Miller v. Alabama, held that mandatory laws requiring lifetime incarceration without the possibility of parole to children convicted of homicide violated the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel […]
Recently a woman in Ohio was caught, first on videotape and then by a police officer, avoiding a school bus’ stop sign by driving onto the sidewalk.[1] She did not want to wait the extra minute for school children to safely get off the bus before continuing on her way. […]
by: Adam Petrun, 3L Contributor The United States Supreme Court is poised this term to evaluate what is arguably the most significant issue facing the Court since its groundbreaking case of National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius handed down this past July. In Fisher v. University of Texas, the […]
