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Submissions from 2019

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The 1,500-Hour Rule: When Does Quantity Outweigh Quality?, Andrea Traut

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Geophysical Trespass, Privacy, and Drones in Oil and Gas Exploration, Sean Valentine

Submissions from 2018

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Pioneering the Right to Breastfeed at 35,000 Feet: Workplace Accommodations for Lactating Employees in the Airline Industry, Brooke L. Hauglid

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Make Airlines Great Again: Why Bankruptcy Went From a Dirty Word to a Strategy, and a Proposal to Bring It Back, Klayton Sweitzer Hiland

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War and (Labor) Peace: How the Ninth Circuit Changed the Rules of Engagement for Service Providers and Organized Labor, Klayton Sweitzer Hiland

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The FAA’s Mental Health Standards: Are They Reasonable?, Katie Manworren

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Here Comes the Boom: Reevaluating the Merits of FAA Prohibition on Civil Supersonic Flight, Jonathan Petree

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Navigating the Federal Sentencing Guidelines: Considerations of Equitable Impact After United States v. Trinidad, Jonathan Petree

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Tax Reform Up in the Air: Redefining the Test for Qualification of an Air Carrier for Sales Tax Exemption, Daniel W. Sepulveda

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Airport Security Screeners: In Your Face and Above the Law, Luke Strieber

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Safety Meets Efficiency: The Medical Device Drone’s Role in Bringing About a Workable Regulatory Framework for Commercial Drones, Luke Strieber

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Presuming Patent Inventorship Without Further Examination: A Double-Edged Sword for Aerospace Companies, Jake Winslett

Submissions from 2017

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Mixed-Motive Mix-Up—Non-Prevailing Party Attorney’s Fees Under Texas Antidiscrimination Law “Up in the Air” After Fifth Circuit’s Peterson v. Bell Helicopter, Alexander P. Cohen

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Sharing the Skies: The Legal State of “Flight-Sharing” After Flytenow and Current Regulatory Issues with Lyfting the Sharing Economy Off the Ground, Alexander P. Cohen

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“Fly The Friendly Skies”: How Implementing a Private Security System Can Improve the Safety of the Nation and an Industry, Courtney Luster

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The Warsaw Convention: When Falling Is Not an “Accident”, Courtney Luster

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FAA Waiver-of-Sanctions Defense—Boeta Clouds the Clearing Horizons of Inadvertent Acts, Catherine Parsley

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Flying While Intoxicated: Options for Pilots, Airlines, and the FAA in Dealing with Alcohol Issues, Catherine Parsley

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Extraterritorial Jurisdiction—Warning: Second Circuit Breaks with Supreme Court Trend for Stricter Presumption Against Extraterritoriality, Alexandra R. Rahn

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Air Traffic Control in the United States: Is Privatization the Path Back to the Top?, Lindsey Rattikin

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Securities Regulation—Tenth Circuit Allows Lying Executives to Escape Section 10(b) Liability, Leaving Investors Remediless, Robert C. Uhl

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Air Ambulance Reform – Why Congress Should Exempt Air Ambulances From “Carrier” Classification and Preemption Under the Airline Deregulation Act, Andrew J. Upton

Submissions from 2016

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Employment Law - A Union's Duty of Fair Representation in Pilot Seniority Negotiations, Kelly Almeter

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Wright is Still Wrong: The Wright Amendment Reform Act and Airline Competition at Dallas Love Field, Barrett V. Armbruster

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Hijacking Open Skies: The Line Between Tough Competition and Unfair Advantage in the International Aviation Market, Hannah E. Cline

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Airline Security and Employee Immunity: The Second Circuit Promotes Airline Security Interests at All Costs—Even If It Means Throwing Efficiency and Accountability by the Wayside, Landon M. Hankins

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Fingerprints: A New Means of Identification in Airport Security Screening, Chase Hilton

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Unfair Treatment for Experienced Pilots— How the Ninth Circuit Promoted Age Discrimination, Dana Hilzendager

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Safety in the Sky: Will Reforming and Restructuring the TSA Improve Our Security or Merely Infringe on our Rights?, Katherine A. Lowe

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Federal Preemption—The Hazy Line of Common Law Claim Preemption Under the Airline Deregulation Act, Jessica Mannon

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Food Allergies on Flights - How a Narrow Interpretation of "Service" Preemption Under the Airline Deregulation Act Could Give Allergic Passengers Much Needed Protection, Laci Verdusco Resendiz

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Busted Benefits—The Seventh Circuit Honors Explicit Contractual Terms of United’s Mileageplus Benefits Program, Abigail Storm

Submissions from 2015

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Freedom to Fly: An Analysis of the Constitutional Right to Air Travel, Lindsay Ray Altmeyer

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The Montreal Convention - The Eleventh Circuit Embraces Airlines' Practice of Bumping to Deny Plaintiffs' Recovery for Personal Injury under Article 17, Lindsey Ray Altmeyer

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Transparency of Airline Ancillary Fees: Market Incentives for an Industry-Based Solution, Leslie Brockhoeft

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A Slip of the Tongue: How the Supreme Court Placed Airline Immunity in the Clouds, Chase Cobern

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Breadth of the ADA Preemption Provision - Morales and Wolens Reaffirmed and the Extension to the Common Law, Hannah Mason

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The FAA's Interpretation of the Special Rule for Model Aircraft, Drew Palmer

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Unexpected Turbulence: An Examination of External Factors That Influenced the DOJ's Intense Review of the American Airlines/US Airways Merger and Its Potential Impact on Future Mergers, Jordan T. Sawyer

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The Montreal Convention's Statute of Limitations - A Failed Attempt at Consistency, Allison Stewart

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Employment Law - The FAA's Exemption from the FLSA-Mandated Overtime-Pay Provision after the Appropriations Act of 1996, Wendy Wilkins

Submissions from 2014

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Good Intentions, Bad Results, and Ineffective Redress: The Story of the No Fly and Selectee Lists and a Suggestion for Change, Eric Hedlund

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Air Travel and the No Fly List - The District of Oregon Recognizes a Constitutional Right to Fly, Emily Leezer Landeros

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Regulation of Air Traffic - The D.C. Circuit Holds that the FAA Has Statutory Authority to Alter Flight Routes to Mitigate the Impact of Aircraft Noise on Residential Areas, Huy Ly

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On What Authority: Customs and Border Protection's Unwarranted War on Private Aviation, Heather McKinney

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The Future of Airline Mergers after the US Airways and American Airlines Merger, Catherine A. Peterman

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Relaxing Restrictions on Cuba: More Air Travel Now than Before, Jennifer Smiley

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The Aviation and Transportation Safety Act and Whisteblowers - How MacLean and the Federal Circuit Sent National Security into a Nose Dive, Cassie Suttle

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Sleeping on the Job - A Critical Analysis of the FAA's Cargo Carve-out under F.A.R. 117 and the Simple Solution That No One Is Talking about, Kelsey M. Taylor

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Grounded at the Pleading Stage: How Do TSA Agents Assess a Peaceful Protest versus a Disruptive One, Peter Thompson

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FAA Endorsements - Escaping Judicial Review - the Second Circuit Rules That an Endorsement of Panel Recommendations Is Not a Final Order, J. Bryan White

Submissions from 2013

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A Waste of Judicial and Agency Resources - The FAA's Painstaking Compliance with Regulations Governing the Hangar 24 Project, Laura L. Arbeiter

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Floating toward a Sky Near You: Unmanned Aircraft Systems and the Implications of the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012, Brandon Bellows

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The TSA's New Precheck Is Beginning to Look a lot like CAPPS II: The Privacy Implications of Reviving the Tenets of the Failed Predecessor, Katie Cristina

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Federal Tort Claims Act - Seventh Circuit's LeGrande Opinion Is Almost a Knockout, Blake Feikema

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Employment Law - Retired Pilots Awarded Monetary Interest on Delayed Lump Sum Pension Payments, Christopher W. Lambert

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American Airlines' Bankruptcy - Is American Ready for Takeoff after Rejecting Its Collective Bargaining Agreement, Matthew T. Moran

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General Aviation Accident Rate: How General Aviation Differs from Commercial Airline Flight and How to Correct the Discrepancy, Michelle Northcutt

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Commercializing Space: Intellectual Property Concerns with Space Act Agreements, Bryan Parrish

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Focusing on ADHD: A Second Look at the FAA's Ban on ADHD Medication in the Cockpit, Baine Sellers

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Tort Claim Preemption under the Airline Deregulation Act - Courts Still Struggling with the Meaning of Services, Baine T. Sellers

Submissions from 2012

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Get off My Plane: The Need for Extreme Deference to Captains and Crews on International Flights under the Tokyo Convention of 1963, Jordan Campbell

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Environmental Impact Statements - The Ninth Circuit Narrows the No-Growth-Inducing-Impacts Exception, John Carse

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Remembering How to Fly: How New Pilot Training Requirements May Do More Harm than Good, Jane Cherry

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The Airline Deregulation Act and Preemption - Determining Whether Curbside Baggage Check has a Significant Impact upon a Carrier, Lorelee Dodge

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Maintaining Privacy in a World of Technological Transparency: The BARR Program's ups and downs in Changing Times, Olga Gurtovaya

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Flying with Blinders On - The District of Columbia Circuit Allows TSA to Ignore Evidence Unfavorable to its Financial Interests, Allyn E. Hurley

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Death on High Seas Act - Defining DOHSA's Applicability to Noncommercial Aircraft Accidents, Susan Roxanne Jett

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Employment Law - The Fifth Circuit's Shaky Landing Prohibits a Hostile Work Environment Claim under USERRA for Pilots with Military Obligations, Jennifer Staton

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What's Wrong with Pregnancy in the Airline Industry and What to Do about It: Balancing Public Safety Interests, Disability Rights, and Freedom from Discrimination, Jennifer Staton

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Grounding the Cape Wind Project: How the FAA Played into the Hands of Wind Farm Opponents and What We Can Learn from It, Heidi Willers

Submissions from 2011

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Faith or Flight: A Religious Dilemma, Colleen Deal

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Flightcrew Member Duty and Rest Requirements: Does the Proposed Legislation Put to Rest the Concern over Pilot Fatigue, Natalie N. DuBose

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Twombly and Parallel Conduct - How the Sixth Circuit Grounded In re Travel Agent Commission Antitrust Litigation, Natalie N. DuBose

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Will the Ban on In-Flight Cell Phone Use Be up in the Air Much Longer, Sarah Lopano

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The First Amendment - Determining Whether a Total Ban on Newspaper Racks in a Public Airport's Terminals Raises a Genuine Issue of Material Fact concerning Its Constitutionality, Laura McKenery

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Ripe, Riper, Ripest - The Ninth Circuit's Decision in Addington v. U.S. Airline Pilots Association Sets a Misguided Ripeness Standard for Duty of Fair Representation Claims, R. J. Pathroff

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The Temporary Presence Defense to Patent Infringement and Its Applicability to Airline Security Patents, Scott Poteet

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Pilots Denied Relief - By Narrowly Construing Prevailing Parties under the EAJA, the D.C. Circuit Allows the FAA to Run Amok, Scott Lars Rogers

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The 2010 NASA Authorization Act: Legislators as Rocket Scientists and Other Implications for America's Human Spaceflight Program, Jason S. Sharp

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Successor Employer's Obligations under a Preexisting Collective Bargaining Agreement: The Second Circuit Misinterprets Supreme Court Decisions and Sets a Harmful Precedent, Kevin A. Teters

Submissions from 2010

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Jurisdiction - Determining the Line between OCSLA and DOSHA - In an Already Murky Area of the Law, the Fifth Circuit Leaves Open More Questions than It Answers, Amy Cawthon Bellah

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Private Commercial Space Transportation's Dependence on Space Tourism and NASA's Responsibility to Both, Thomas Brannen

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The National Mediation Board's Rule Proposal for Representation Elections: If It Ain't Broke..., Kyle Burke

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The Aviation Industry and the Transmission of Communicable Disease: The Case of H1N1 Swine Influenza,, Courtney Clegg

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Bumping Passengers - Airline Service That Just Doesn't Fly, Aubrey B. Colvard

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Trying to Squeeze into the Middle Seat: Application of the Airline Deregulation Act's Preemption Provision to Internet Travel Agencies, Aubrey B. Colvard

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False Claims Act - The Tenth Circuit Fails to Fully Consider the Harm to Public Policy Caused by Enforcement of a Prefiling Release Agreement in a Qui Tam Action: United States Ex Rel. Ritchie v. Lockheed Martin Corp., Kelly Flanagan

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Why Airlines Should Be Afraid: The Potential Impact of Cap and Trade and Other Carbon Emissions Reduction Proposals on the Airline Industry, Tate L. Hemingson

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Reasonably Precise Specifications and the Military Contractor Defense - The Eleventh Circuit Misapplies the Boyle Test: Brinson v. Raytheon Co., Michael Lyons

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It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's a Problem: The Impact of Bird Strikes on the Civil Aviation Industry, Amanda Thompson

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Air Traffic Controller Liability - First Circuit Undermines FAA's Efforts to Incorporate Redundancy into Aviation Safety Procedures: Wojciechowicz v. United States, Asten Joe Van

Submissions from 2009

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No-Fly List - The Ninth Circuit Misapplies Congressional Intent of 49 U.S.C. Sec. 46110, a Decision that Opens the Doors of District Courts to No-Fly List Challenges: Ibrahim v. Department of Homeland Security, J. Cade Hamner

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Regulating Safety - Can the National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration Improve the Safety of EMS Flights, J. Cade Hamner

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Preemption - The Preemptive Scope of the Airline Deregulation Act as Amended by the Whistleblower Protection Program: Wright v. Nordam Group, Inc., Katrina Maher

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Beyond Orwell: The Application of Unmanned Aircraft Systems in Domestic Surveillance Operations, Paul McBride

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Takings - The Federal Circuit Denies Compensation for Passenger Screening Companies Pushed out of the Airport by the Aviation and Transportation Security Act: Huntleigh USA Corp. v. United States, Paul McBride

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Obesity, Canada's One Passenger One Fare Rule and the Potential Effects on the U.S. Commercial Airline Industry, Avery Williams

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Antidiscrimination Law - In the Face of Racial Profiling, the First Circuit Holds that Longstanding Antidiscrimination Principles Must Yield to Airline Safety: Cerqueira v. American Airlines, Inc., Benjamin D. Williams

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Playing the Slots: The FAA Gambles with Its Controversial Congestion Management Plan for New York's Busiest Airports, Benjamin D. Williams