Online Originals


A Ward of the State: The First Amendment as Protecting the Best Interest of the Child in Custody Disputes

University of Kentucky J. David Rosenberg College of Law 3L Ellen Ray argues for First Amendment protection for public employees who testify in child custody hearings. She explains that the Supreme Court has the opportunity to enact this protection by taking on an appeal for the Tenth Circuit case Butler and should in light of Lane and the best for the child standard.

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Ellen Hancock
Public University Professors: Employees or Appointees?

In this edition of KLJ Online, Vol. 108, Alicia Gilbert’s Note discusses the difficulties with defining who is and is not an “employee” under employment law classifications, and advocates for university and college professors to be labeled as employees under worker classification labels because this label provides them with the most statutory protections.

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Taxing the Brave New World: A Comment on Professor Tessa Davis’s Article "Freezing the Future: Elective Egg Freezing and the Future of the Medical Expense Deduction"

In this edition of KLJ Online, Vol. 107, UK Law professor Jennifer Bird-Pollan, responds to Tessa Davis’s Article on elective egg freezing published in print in Volume 107 by stating that when the government and courts address these new questions, they should follow Davis’s lead.

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The Curiously Nonrandom Assignment of Sixth Circuit Senior Judges

In this edition of KLJ Online, Vol. 108, Clark L. Hildabrand—graduate of Yale Law School and former Law Clerk for Judge Sutton on the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals— examines Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals assignments. Further, he analyzes potential weaknesses in the nonrandomness of the judicial assignment system. The Essay relies on data from the Sixth Circuit from 2012-2016.

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