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The Legal Eagle Lowdown
Cracking Down on Cellphone Use in School
by Maria Wood For years, teachers have been competing with cellphones for students’ attention in class. In an effort to cut down on the distractions that cellphones cause, 18 states have passed...
NCAA Settlement Transforms College Sports
by Robin Roenker Whether college athletes should be paid to play their sport has been debated for decades. Some say that student athletes provide the labor that generates revenue for their school so...
Voters in 2024 Election May Face Restrictions
by Emily Pecot For the 2024 presidential election, voters in 28 states will face restrictions that were not in place for the 2020 election, according to the Brennan Center for Justice, a nonpartisan...
Artificial Intelligence and Election Integrity—A Global Problem
by Maria Wood In January 2024, in the midst of the Democratic presidential primary season, some voters in New Hampshire received a robocall supposedly from President Joe Biden urging them to save...
Threats to Election Workers Threatens Democracy
by Jodi L. Miller Running America’s elections—whether it’s a presidential election, a mid-term election or an off-year election—is a lot of work. Yet, every Election Day election officials and poll...
Artificial Intelligence Provides Opportunities and Challenges
by Sylvia Mendoza Artificial intelligence (AI) sounds like something from a science fiction movie or a spy novel. The truth is we experience AI every day—when Google figures out what you’re...
Is Discouraging Misinformation on Social Media Censorship?
by Michael Barbella Is Covid-19 and election integrity misinformation legally protected by the First Amendment? That is the question the U.S. Supreme Court is currently grappling with, courtesy of a...
Combatting Violence at Youth Sporting Events
by Maria Wood The National Council of Youth Sports estimates that 60 million kids across the country participate in youth sports. According to Sports Business Journal, youth sports is a $30 billion...
Lawmakers Look to Curb Harm on Social Media Platforms
by Maria Wood According to the Pew Research Center, approximately 95% of kids ages 13 to 17 are on social media, with more than a third of them admitting “they use social media ‘almost constantly.’”...
TikTok Bans Show Difficulty of Balancing National Security and Free Speech
by Emily Pecot Since its creation in 2016, TikTok, the short-form video-sharing app, has grown significantly. Currently, TikTok has approximately 1.1 billion active users worldwide—150 million of...
Garden State Aims to Give Students the Tools to Spot Fact from Fiction
by Sylvia Mendoza Growing up in the age of technology, the convenience of googling information on any topic is probably second nature to you. The problem is the possibility that the information...
Ticketmaster’s Practices Take the Spotlight
by Emily Pecot Seeing Taylor Swift live with thousands of other “Swifties” wasn’t supposed to be impossible. In November 2022, when tickets for Swift’s “Eras” tour went on sale, Ticketmaster...