Feb 24, 2013 | Case Comments, Number 1, Print Edition, Volume 46
In criminal cases, restitution for victims is typically limited to the losses that the defendant caused in the commission of the crime.1 Title 18, section 2259 of the United States Code requires courts to order restitution for victims of sexual crimes against children...
Feb 24, 2013 | Case Comments, Number 1, Print Edition, Volume 46
A criminal defendant’s motion to suppress often implicates the Fourth Amendment’s protections against “unreasonable searches and seizures.” Nevertheless, the extent to which government surveillance activities associated with wireless communication and location...
Nov 13, 2012 | Case Comments, Number 4, Print Edition, Volume 45
The First Amendment protects the freedom of speech and press—liberties that include the right to disseminate certain information concerning governmental activities, including police work. A police officer may defend against a claim of violating a citizen’s...
Nov 13, 2012 | Case Comments, Number 4, Print Edition, Volume 45
Although the First Amendment protects the right of free speech, the Supreme Court of the United States has held that certain types of speech made by students on campus may be restricted in public schools. The Court has not addressed, however, student speech...
Nov 13, 2012 | Case Comments, Number 4, Volume 45
On February 9, 2012, the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) brought an end to the atomic power industry’s thirty-four-year construction hiatus when it green-lighted the licensing of two state-of-the-art nuclear reactors in eastern Georgia. In In re...
