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Item Black Law Students Association(2026)Presented To: Black Law Student Association for 50 years of passion, drive, community, & perseverance! Creighton Law 2025-2026 - No Thumbnail Available
Item Improving EsoGuard Referral Rates in a Primary Care Clinic(Creighton University, 2026-03-03)Background: Esophageal adenocarcinoma (EAC) is an increasingly prevalent and deadly cancer in the United States. Barrett’s esophagus (BE) is the only known precursor to EAC; however, screening rates for BE remain low in primary care settings. Non-endoscopic screening tools, such as EsoGuard, offer a minimally invasive alternative that may improve screening uptake and early detection of BE. Purpose: The purpose of this quality improvement project was to increase appropriate EsoGuard screening referrals for patients at risk for Barrett’s esophagus in a family medicine clinic and to evaluate staff competency in the screening and referral process. Methods: A plan-do-study-act (PDSA) quality improvement project was implemented in a family medicine clinic in Mesa, Arizona. The intervention included staff education, a simplified referral algorithm, and workflow integration. Pre-intervention data were collected followed by implementation of the intervention. Results: Pre-intervention data demonstrated an appropriate referral rate of 14.6% (6 of 41 eligible encounters). Following implementation, referral rates increased to 37.5% (15 of 40 eligible encounters), representing a 2.57-fold increase. Staff competency exceeded the project goal, with 100% of clinic staff accurately completing two simulated referral case scenarios. Conclusion: Implementation of a structured, screening intervention improved appropriate EsoGuard referrals and staff competency. These findings support the use of simplified screening processes and specific education to enhance adherence to Barrett’s esophagus screening guidelines in primary care and may contribute to earlier detection of BE and reduced morbidity and mortality from esophageal adenocarcinoma. - Loading...
Item FTC Non-Compete Scrutiny Will Prompt “Creativity”. . . How Employers and M&A Teams Will Structure Agreements to Achieve Their Goals. . . And How to Stop Them (When Necessary)(Creighton University School of Law, 2025-12)While many workers merely skim their employment agreements, nearly thirty million Americans are bound by a non-compete clause. In April 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC” or “Commission”) issued its final rule (“Rule”) to ban non-competes, set to go into effect in September of that year. While the FTC has launched attack on noncompetes, the Commission has a long way to go before abolishing these agreements and their counterparts. In the Rule, the FTC anticipated employers using “functional” equivalents to non-competes, but left out specifics for what qualifies as a legal or illegal agreement, leaving room for creative employers to find alternative ways to bypass the Rule without technically breaking the law. - Loading...
Item Outdated and Unconstitutional: Rethinking Duration of Residency Requirements for Jury Service(Creighton University School of Law, 2025-12)This article addresses a critical, yet largely overlooked, defect in the jury selection process: the categorical exclusion of new residents from jury service. Federal and state laws imposing one-year residency requirements violate the constitutional right to an impartial jury and undermine the legitimacy of the jury system. Rooted in outdated assumptions about community attachment and juror competence, these requirements persist without empirical support or meaningful judicial scrutiny. Courts have upheld them based on contradictory rationales and outdated analysis from the 1970s, leaving this area of law stagnant, despite evolving juror selection procedures and increasing societal mobility. Affecting roughly five percent of the population, one-year residency requirements arbitrarily exclude fresh and unbiased perspectives from all federal jury trials and jury trials in five states, compromising the representativeness of jury pools and eroding public confidence in the justice system. This article argues for a long-overdue reassessment of these exclusions and advocates for constitutional standards that reflect modern realities, ensuring that juries embody a true cross-section of the communities they serve.