Photo provided courtesy Pixabay.com. By Sam Cook, Staff Writer The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) is the federal labor law that sets the $7.25/hour minimum wage and requires employers to pay certain non-exempt employees time-and-a-half for time worked exceeding 40 hours per week. [1] Pennsylvania has its own fair […]
Photo provided courtesy of Pexels.com. By Daniel Pagana, Staff Writer In battleground states across the country, the courts have been bombarded with election cases. All political parties have been fighting for their respective interests in the courts. Courts across the country have strictly enforced election requirements. The Green […]
Photo courtesy of Pixabay.com Google Antitrust and Privacy By Stephen Hodzic On October 20, 2020, the Justice Department, amongst eleven Attorneys General from various states, filed a civil antitrust lawsuit against Google to prevent it from “unlawfully maintaining monopolies through anticompetitive and exclusionary practices in the search and search […]
Photo courtesy of Deposit Photos. Ninth Circuit Rejects Request for Immediate WeChat Ban By Sarah Thomas The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has rejected a request by the Trump Administration to immediately ban Chinese-owned WeChat from smartphone app stores.[1] This request came on an appeal from the District Court for […]
Photo provided courtesy of Pixabay.com. NFL Injury and Franchise Tag Considerations Christina Pici In November of 2018, I wrote a Juris Article titled “NFL Contracts and a Glimpse into Le’Veon Bell’s Contract Dispute.” The focus of this article was Le’Veon Bell’s contract dispute with the Steelers. For those unfamiliar with […]
Photo provided courtesy of Heather Heidelbaugh. By: David McPeak As the Presidential election barrels toward the finish line, and with few statewide races in Pennsylvania, the contest for Attorney General (“AG”) is taking center stage. Local “Super Lawyer” Heather Heidelbaugh of Mt. Lebanon is running a competitive race. [1] In […]
Photo provided courtesy of unsplash.com By Shreya Desai, Staff Writer The Unites States Constitution mandates that Congress carry out a census every ten years, counting each person residing within the country and its territories. [1] The count is to be conducted by a non-partisan government agency, the United States Census […]
By Josh Larkin, Staff Writer Since early this year, the country has endured numerous challenges relating to public health and safety due to the global pandemic of COVID-19. Nationally, over 200,000 people have died while having, or presumed to have had, COVID-19.[1] At the time of writing this article, Pennsylvania […]
Barrett on Constitutional Interpretation Falco Anthony Muscante II On September 26, President Trump nominated Judge Amy Coney Barrett of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals to fill the vacancy on the United States Supreme Court resulting from Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death.[1] Justice Ginsburg served as an Associate Justice […]
The Notorious RBG’s Majority Opinion–Opera is Supreme By: Annie J. Rago, 3E Not only has the United States Supreme Court lost one of the most influential justices of our time; so, too, has the opera world lost an ardent supporter. From the very young age of 11, Justice Ginsberg […]