state law — Online Journal — Columbia Undergraduate Law Review

Liability Immunity for Healthcare Providers Against Medical Malpractice Claims During the Coronavirus Pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed jarring shortcomings in America’s healthcare system. Between the shortage of resources and exhausted health practitioners, all aspects of healthcare, even ones not directly related to COVID-19, have been impacted. Though the legal repercussions of one of the “largest medical disasters in [U.S.] history” have yet to fully unravel, over four thousand medical malpractice complaints are reported to have already been filed against physicians as of August 12.

Alison QiOctober 5, 2020COVID-19, liability, healthcare industry, state law

Child-Criminals: The Unclear Relationship between Children and the Justice System

It is estimated that in 2017, nearly 809,700 children under the age of 18 were arrested in the United States for crimes including burglary, arson, drug abuse, and homicide. [1] This statistic displays an intensifying debate in America: the treatment of children in the criminal justice system. While these youths were clearly convicted for violating the law, what remains unclear in the law is how these children should be distinguished from their adult criminal counterparts.

Megan RodriguezJanuary 6, 2019juvenile, first-degree homicide, criminal justice, state law, Supreme Court, Graham v. Florida, J.D.B. v. North CarolinaComment