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What's the Harm? The Future of the First Amendment
Immigration, Retaliation, and Jurisdiction
Daniel Simon
AB 2017, The University of Chicago; JD Candidate 2021, The University of Chicago Law School.

When federal officials told Ravidath Ragbir that they were deporting him because of his immigration activism, no one could stop them. This unreviewability was by design — a feature, rather than a bug, of our immigration laws.

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Law for the Next Pandemic
Getting Down to Brass Tax: Why Courts Should Use Equitable Tolling to Help Taxpayer-Petitioners Impacted by COVID-19
Hannah Fisher
B.S., Texas A&M University, 2018; J.D. Candidate, The University of Chicago Law School, 2022.

Many thanks to Professor William Hubbard and the editorial staff of the Legal Forum for their thoughtful feedback at every iteration of this piece. I am also endlessly grateful for the support of my friends and family along the way.

Filing deadlines, and the varying ramifications for failing to satisfy them, have been a longstanding fixture of the American litigation landscape. And as if the economic downturn was not already felt sharply enough, the pandemic’s arrival painfully coincided with the peak of the United States tax season.

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Law for the Next Pandemic
The Validity of Tribal Checkpoints in South Dakota to Curb the Spread of COVID-19
Ann E. Tweedy
Associate Professor, University of South Dakota School of Law. The author also spent over a decade representing tribal governments, including serving as a Tribal Attorney for Muck-leshoot Indian Tribe and Swinomish Indian Tribal Community and as an Associate Attorney and as Of Counsel at Kanji & Katzen, PLLC.

I would like to thank Professors Matthew Fletcher, Jasmine Gonzales Rose, Steven Macias, Eric Eberhard, and Frank Pommersheim for reviewing drafts of this article. I would also like to thank my research assistants Josey Johnson and Raegan Chavez for their invaluable help, as well as the editors of the University of Chicago Legal Forum for their careful attention to this piece and for their excellent suggestions. Finally, I am grateful to Sarah Kammer, Head of Public, Faculty and Student Services at McKusick Law Library, for her adept assistance.

This Article explores what measures tribal governments can take to enforce regulations and policies designed to protect their own citizens and others within their territories from COVID-19.