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02/21/2022

"Earlier last year, the Supreme Court held that the FTC does not have the authority to obtain equitable monetary relief as a remedy in federal court. As a result, the FTC could no longer seek disgorgement, a form of such relief, of Vyera’s allegedly ill-gotten profits in the case at hand."

Read on our blog how state-level antitrust enforcement acted in response to this limitation to ensure "Pharma Bro" disgorged his $64.6 million in profit.

by Admin February 4, 2022 0 Early Ruling in Martin Shkreli Drug-pricing Lawsuit Clears Path for Heightened Role of State-level Antitrust Enforcement Martin Shkreli in 2017. (Credit: Barry Williams/for New York Daily News) Logan Wilke, CLS ’23 Martin Shkreli, aka the “Pharma Bro,” gained notori...

03/16/2021

Please welcome JLSP's Vol. 55 Editorial Board for 2021-2022!

03/11/2021

Common Law Blog: "First Circuit Backs Harvard in Admissions Case, But Court Challenges to Affirmative Action in Higher Education Continue" by Julia Levitan, CLS ’22 http://jlsp.law.columbia.edu/2021/02/22/1330/

03/07/2021

JLSP is very proud of Vol. 53's Elias Feldman, whose note "Strict Tort Liability for Police Misconduct," was cited in a recent ACLU amicus brief to the US Supreme Court!

https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/20/20-1060/170829/20210303141831703_Oliva%20v.%20Nivar%20Amicus%20Brief.pdf?fbclid=IwAR1XyeXFwTOb7zcs912kde4nCwcaF0DbDd-in-UaJWoEAT5w9AzPSaa6n9I

02/23/2021

Common Law Blog: "Liberty Versus Safety: The Constitutionality of Lockdowns" by Madeline Holbrook, CLS ’22 http://jlsp.law.columbia.edu/2021/02/18/liberty-versus-safety-the-constitutionality-of-lockdowns/

02/20/2021

Common Law Blog: "Congress Must Act to Broaden the Scope of Vote Dilution Under § 2 VRA Claims" by Paul Riley, CLS ’22 http://jlsp.law.columbia.edu/2021/02/15/congress-must-act-to-broaden-the-scope-of-vote-dilution-under-%c2%a7-2-vra-claims-2/

02/19/2021

Common Law Blog: "Free Speech in the COVID-19 Era" by Michael Tinti, CLS ’22 http://jlsp.law.columbia.edu/2021/02/11/free-speech-in-the-covid-19-era/

02/10/2021

JLSP is proud to announce that Vol. 54, Issue 2 is officially published and live on our website, WestLaw, and Lexis!

Congratulations to our authors and all of their hard work!

Connor Clerkin - Predicated Predictions: How Federal Judges Predict Changes in State Law

Noah Bunnell - Remedying Public-Sector Algorithmic Harms: The Case for Local and State Regulation via Independent Agency

Alak Mehta - SALT, Subsidies, and Subnational Spending

Morgan Marmaro - Molecule Size Doesn’t Matter: The Case for Harmonizing Antitrust Treatment of Pay-for-Delay Agreements

Come read the Notes at

Home In Volume 54, Issue 1 Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Rural Special Education and the Limitations of the IDEA Lydia Turnage In 1975, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) established a substantive right to “free appropriate public education” (FAPE) for children with special need...

02/02/2021

Common Law Blog: "NYPD has More Than a Few Bad Apples—The Barrel is Rotten" by Mary Gardner, CLS ’22 http://jlsp.law.columbia.edu/2021/01/17/nypd-has-more-than-a-few-bad-apples-the-barrel-is-rotten/

01/25/2021

New Blog Post: "The Efficacy of the Main Street Lending Program" by Arpan Patel, CLS ’22

by Admin January 15, 2021 0 The Efficacy of the Main Street Lending Program "File:Marriner S. Eccles Federal Reserve Board Building.jpg" by AgnosticPreachersKid is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0   Arpan Patel, CLS ’22 The ongoing pandemic has wrought devastation on American small and medium sized en...

01/25/2021

Common Law Blog: "Thomas Tees Up Future Challenges to Obergefell" - Joe Sullivan, CLS '22 http://jlsp.law.columbia.edu/2021/01/15/thomas-tees-up-future-challenges-to-obergefell/

01/18/2021

Common Law Blog: "As Pandemic Rages, ACA Challenge Threatens Protections for Preexisting Conditions" - Olivia Berci, CLS '22 http://jlsp.law.columbia.edu/2021/01/15/as-pandemic-rages-aca-challenge-threatens-protections-for-preexisting-conditions/