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    The Antidote of Free Speech: Censorship During the Pandemic

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    Free speech in America stands at a precipice. The nation must decide if the First Amendment protects controversial, unconventional, and unpopular speech, or only that which is mainstream, fashionable, and government-approved. This debate is one of many legal battles brought to the fore during Covid-19. But the fallout of the free speech question will transcend Covid-19. During the pandemic, the federal government took unprecedented steps to pressure private entities to push messages it approved and squelch those it did not. The Supreme Court will soon grapple with the issue of censorship during the pandemic. This article examines this litigation, along with the speech restrictions enacted by social media platforms at the behest of federal officials. It does so through a historical lens as it applies to free speech and prior restraint. Tracing this lineage is vital to understanding the importance of the right to think freely in the Covid era and how to apply historical concepts of free speech to contemporary challenges. I conclude the solution to the problem of misinformation is more speech, not suppression. Unconventional speech thus warrants constitutional protection. The First Amendment is designed to preserve an uninhibited marketplace of ideas where truth will ultimately prevail. That process is difficult, time consuming, and not without error. However, it is the most prudent alternative to reliance on the government intrusion of prior restraint and viewpoint discrimination

    The Repercussions of Anonymous Juries

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    This Article reviews the origins, history, and use of juries, traditional and anonymous. It then evaluates the benefits and drawbacks of anonymous juries. It concludes with an examination of the psychological aspects of juror anonymity

    The Antidote of Free Speech: Censorship During the Pandemic

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    Free speech in America stands at a precipice. The nation must decide if the First Amendment protects controversial, unconventional, and unpopular speech, or only that which is mainstream, fashionable, and government-approved. This debate is one of many legal battles brought to the fore during Covid-19. But the fallout of the free speech question will transcend Covid-19. During the pandemic, the federal government took unprecedented steps to pressure private entities to push messages it approved and squelch those it did not. The Supreme Court will soon grapple with the issue of censorship during the pandemic. This article examines this litigation, along with the speech restrictions enacted by social media platforms at the behest of federal officials. It does so through a historical lens as it applies to free speech and prior restraint. Tracing this lineage is vital to understanding the importance of the right to think freely in the Covid era and how to apply historical concepts of free speech to contemporary challenges. I conclude the solution to the problem of misinformation is more speech, not suppression. Unconventional speech thus warrants constitutional protection. The First Amendment is designed to preserve an uninhibited marketplace of ideas where truth will ultimately prevail. That process is difficult, time consuming, and not without error. However, it is the most prudent alternative to reliance on the government intrusion of prior restraint and viewpoint discrimination

    Magnetic impurities and superconductivity

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    We study properties of Kondo alloys in which superconductivity is induced by the proximity effect. A review of these McMillan proximity composites in general is given with emphasis on the theoretical aspects of the physical models used to describe them. A comparison between theory and experiment is presented. We extend the existing theory of McMillan Kondo proximity systems by taking account of the energy dependence as well as the temperature dependence of pair-breaking using the phenomenological model of MĂĽller-Hartmann, Schuh and Zittartz. This extended energy dependent theory is used in the calculation of the transition temperature of the composite, which has its re-entrance reduced when energy dependence is introduced. The specific heat jump of the proximity impurity composite is calculated using the extended theory. It is found that the transition temperature and specific heat jump in the proximity case behave in a similar qualitative fashion to that of bulk superconducting Kondo alloys. The maximum Josephson current of the composite, with energy dependence accounted for, is calculated, as are the thermal conductivity, ultrasonic attenuation and nuclear spin relaxation rate. The discussion of several uncertainties surrounding proximity Kondo composite theory is given throughout the text

    Censorship and the Law after 2020

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    This panel focused on the renewed conflict between First Amendment advocates and public officials in light on the COVID-19 pandemic and the battles over free speech and misinformation that came in its wake. Moderated by Law Review staff editor Gerald Sharpe (2L), it featured Marc DeGirolami, St. John Henry Newman Professor of Law and codirector of the Center for Law and the Human Person at Catholic Law; attorney Christopher Keleher, Esq., of the Kelleher Appellate Law Group, LLC; and General Counsel Kim Mack Rosenberg, Esq., of Children’s Health Defense

    Censorship and the Law after 2020

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    This panel focused on the renewed conflict between First Amendment advocates and public officials in light on the COVID-19 pandemic and the battles over free speech and misinformation that came in its wake. Moderated by Law Review staff editor Gerald Sharpe (2L), it featured Marc DeGirolami, St. John Henry Newman Professor of Law and codirector of the Center for Law and the Human Person at Catholic Law; attorney Christopher Keleher, Esq., of the Kelleher Appellate Law Group, LLC; and General Counsel Kim Mack Rosenberg, Esq., of Children’s Health Defense

    Fall movements of Pacific Salmon in Lake Ontario and several tributaries

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    In the fall of 1982, 15 radio-tagged Pacific Salmon exhibited typical pre-spawning and spawning movements in Lake Ontario and several of its tributaries. There were no significant differences in daily and hourly movement rates between Coho Salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) and Chinook Salmon (O. tshawytscha). Salmon homed strongly to streams where they had been stocked 2-3 years earlier (64%); correlations between precipitation events and movements in the lake, stream entries and stream exits were low (r < 0.27; and angler mortality among fish entering tributaries was high (78%).VoRSUNY BrockportDepartment of Biological SciencesN/
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