Juris Blog

How in the World Anti-Vaccination Became a Movement

  By: Jennifer Carter, Web Editor   Within the past ten years, an old movement gained new momentum on social media sites and blogs urging parents to refrain from vaccinating their young children. Parents appeared to lead the movement, with many spreading the debunked rumor that vaccines cause autism, spearheaded […]

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Immigration Court Backlog Surpasses One Million Cases

By: Margaret Potter, Staff Writer   Two years after taking office, the Trump administration enforced quotas on immigration judges in 2018 requiring each judge “…to clear seven hundred cases a year or get docked points on their performance evaluations.”[1] In addition to this burden on immigration judges, then Attorney General […]

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Scotland Considers Exiting from Brexit

By: Andrew Beluk, Staff Writer   Since June 2016, Americans received an incredible amount of news coverage concerning Brexit, the infamous and controversial plan for Great Britain to leave the European Union (“EU”). While it is understandable that the news focused on England, it made it easy to forget that […]

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Making Sense of the Census Citizenship Question

By: Samantha Dorn, Staff Writer   A federal judge in New York will soon make a decision on the issue of whether the Trump administration violated federal law when it added a citizenship question to the 2020 census.[1] According to the Commerce Secretary, Wilbur L. Ross, Jr., the proposed question […]

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Attorney Billing: Billable Hours vs. Fee Per Service

  By: Sarah Morrison, Staff Writer   Think about planning a monthly budget; rent, utilities, insurance, groceries, gas, and savings. Some of these expenses are fixed, others are variable. [1] However, many of the variable expenses can actually be translated into fixed expenses with budget plans available through most utility […]

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PA Animal Cruelty Statutes Updates: An Overview

By: Stephen Hodzic, Staff Writer   The Pennsylvania animal abuse cruelty statutes went through a significant overhaul in 2017 with the addition of Libre’s Law.[1] The law included several provisions, including a significant increase of the penalty for aggravated animal cruelty – an individual charged with a violation of this […]

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Working to End Discrimination Against Disabled Voters

By: Elizabeth Echard, Staff Writer   Currently, forty million Americans have a disability.[1] Of those forty million disabled Americans, sixteen million voted in 2016.[2] That shows a mere 40% of disabled citizens vote, compared to the 58% of United States citizens, as a whole, that voted in 2016.[3] Many issues […]

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