The most important Supreme Court case of the past two decades, Department of Health and Human Services v. Florida, will have huge economic, social, and moral implications for this country. The entirety of President Obama’s sweeping health care legislation, the Affordable Care Act of 2010, is at risk. Yet even with all this on the line, the oral arguments were painfully lackluster

By JASON M TENENBAUM – Recently, the legality of warrantless searches of cell phones incident to arrest has become a serious issue for defendants and privacy advocates around the nation. Analogizing searches of cell phones to searches of containers, the courts have usually upheld the warrantless search of a cell phone incident to arrest, whether they have been limited in scope to simply retrieving a phone’s telephone number, or as broad as searching the entire phone

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By JOSEPHINE BALZAC – If immediate action is not taken childhood obesity will continue to increase and this current generation of young people could “become the first in American history to live shorter lives than their parents.” The current American diet lacks nutritional value and consumers are constantly misled into purchasing these unhealthy foods due to heavy marketing and promoting. By targeting children through their advertising, the food industry shoves highly processed and unhealthy foods down our children’s throats and thus encourages a high fat, sugary, and unnatural diet

By MEREDITH BIGGS – Many children have suffered neurological problems from a DTP vaccine. In fact, DTP vaccinations are responsible for the majority of proven vaccine-related injuries, and the injuries are primarily neurological. Unfortunately, the current laws are tipped in favor of vaccine manufacturers. Congress established the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program which uses a table that lists the compensable symptoms for each vaccine. This creates an unusual dichotomy whereby victims with very specific symptoms that fit in the table have to do virtually nothing to get compensation; but victims with even slightly different symptoms have to prove virtually everything to get any compensation

By VANESSA DANLEY – To protect its rich biodiversity, Costa Rica created a comprehensive legal framework for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity. In 1989, The National Biodiversity Institute (“INBio”) of Costa Rica was created to support the country’s conservation efforts and to promote sustainable development. INBio is a private, non-governmental, non-profit, public interest organization that strives to conserve biodiversity through study, research, and improvement of the people’s quality of life