Post Tagged with: "Margaret Potter"

Anti-Affirmative Action Organization Files Petition for Certiorari in Case Challenging Harvard University’s Admissions Policies

Anti-Affirmative Action Organization Files Petition for Certiorari in Case Challenging Harvard University’s Admissions Policies

Photo courtesy of Pixabay.com. By Margaret Potter, Feature Editor   On February 25, 2020, the anti-affirmative action organization Students for Fair Admissions (“SFFA”) filed a petition for a writ of certiorari, asking the Supreme Court to hear its appeal of a United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit’s […]

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Duquesne University School of Law Students and Faculty Remember Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Duquesne University School of Law Students and Faculty Remember Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Photo provided courtesy of the Office of Duquesne University President Ken Gormley By Margaret Potter, Feature Editor   The year 2020 has been marked by tremendous loss, and the highest court in our land has been no exception. On September 18, 2020 Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the second woman to […]

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Trump Administration Enacts Largest Rollback of the Clean Water Act

By: Margaret Potter, Blog Editor Enacted in 1972, the Clean Water Act (the “CWA”) has provided for the federal protection of the “waters of the United States” for over forty years.[1] Under the CWA, the federal government can regulate water quality standards and implement pollution control to protect the integrity […]

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Impact of North Carolina Gerrymandering Decision on Upcoming 2020 Census

  By Margaret Potter, Blog Editor On October 28, 2019, a North Carolina state court ruled that the state’s current congressional district maps could not be used in the upcoming March primaries.[1] The three-judge panel in Wake County ruled that proceeding with the current congressional maps would be “improper”.[2] In […]

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UPMC Will Accept Highmark Patients, Per New Contract

By: Margaret Potter, Blog Editor The contentious relationship between the two Pennsylvania healthcare giants, UPMC and Highmark, is a story well known to all Western Pennsylvanians for the past several years. In an unlikely turn of events, the two health insurance companies were able to come to common ground and enter […]

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Due Process in the #MeToo Era

  By: Margaret Potter, Staff Writer   With each news cycle, there are new reports of sexual harassment or assault allegations in spheres spanning from the entertainment world, to politics, to our local communities, academic institutions, and churches.  When the public learns of these allegations through news sources and social […]

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