Read Full Article (PDF) Appoint Judge Ana de Alba to the Ninth Circuit The United States Senate must rapidly appoint Eastern District of California Judge Ana de Alba to the Ninth Circuit. This appellate tribunal is a preeminent regional circuit, which...
Read Full Article (PDF) Confirm Rachel Bloomekatz to the SixthCircuit Now that the United States Senate is convening after the July Fourth holiday, the upper chamber must promptly appoint Rachel Bloomekatz to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth...
Read Full Article (PDF) Acknowledgements Each year, in a tradition dating back twenty-three years to Volume 33, the Editor-in-Chief of the University of Richmond Law Review authors acknowledgements to be included in their volume’s final publication. In keeping...
Read Full Article (PDF) The NIL Glass Ceiling Name, image, and likeness (“NIL”) produced nearly $1 billion in earnings for intercollegiate athletes in its inaugural year. Analysts argue that the shockingly high totals result from disproportionateinstitutional...
Read Full Article (PDF) Acting Cabinet Secretaries and the Twenty-Fifth Amendment The Twenty-Fifth Amendment of the United States Constitution contains a mechanism that enables the Vice President, with the support of a majority of the Cabinet, to temporarily...
Read Full Article (PDF) Disinformation and the Defamation Renaissance: A Misleading Promise of “Truth” Today, defamation litigation is experiencing a renaissance, with progressives and conservatives, public officials and celebrities, corporations and high school...
Read Full Article (PDF) ERISA’s Fiduciary Fantasy and the Problem of Mass Health Claim Denials Over 100 million Americans face healthcare debt. Most of those in debt have health insurance, with the debt often springing from services people thought were covered....
Read Full Article (PDF) Going the Extra Mile: Expanding the Promoting Affordable Housing Near Transit Act The Promoting Affordable Housing Near Transit Act (“Act”), introduced in Congress in June 2021 and signed into law six months later, proposes a goal of...
Read Full Article (PDF) Executive Order 14036: Promoting Competition? Four million Americans left their jobs in July 2021. By the end of that month, the number of open jobs reached an all-time high: 10.9 million. Employees are walking out the door in record...
Read Full Article (PDF) Prison Housing Policies for Transgender, Non-binary, Gender-non-conforming, and Intersex People: Restorative Ways to Address the Gender Binary in the United States Prison System “[I]t was the end of the last quarter of 2019 where I was...
Read Full Article (PDF) Confirm Julie Rikelman for the First Circuit Now that the United States Senate has reconvened after pauses for holidays, the upper chamber must expeditiously appoint designee Julie Rikelman to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the...
Read Full Article (PDF) Redemption Lawyer and University of Richmond Law graduate Robert C. Smith—the great-great-grandson of T.C. Williams, Sr.—has recently claimed that his family is owed a refund of $3.6 billion from the University of Richmond,...