By: Miranda Guedes The United Nations Committee on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (CESCR), composed of leading global experts, provided the following framework to define the human rights to housing according to seven elements: (1) security of tenure; (2) availability of services; (3) affordability; (4) habitability; (5) accessibility; (6) location; and (7) cultural adequacy.[1] Human […]

By: Alexis Smartz On February 1, 2022, Brian Flores filed an employment discrimination lawsuit against the Miami Dolphins (“Dolphins”), New York Giants (“Giants”), and National Football League (“NFL”). [1] Flores filed this putative class action alleging that the NFL discriminates against minority coaches, including by interviewing them for head coaching positions solely to fulfill the […]

By: Taylor Weathers Annual Banned Books Week came early this year in Florida. As students and teachers returned from winter break, some classroom staples notably did not return. Several counties in Florida, including Manatee and Duval, instructed teachers to “remove or wrap up their classroom libraries.”[1] This is a result of Governor DeSantis-backed legislation, HB […]

By: Ethan Goldberg Irmgard Furchner hardly looks the part of the “the secretary of evil.” The pictures from her trial in the small German town of Itzehoe simply depict a tiny, frail, woman confined to a wheelchair.[i] In fact, Fuchner’s 2022 trial was one of the first trials in Germany in decades that sought to […]