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The Legal Eagle Lowdown
E-Cigarette Debate Is Lighting Up
In the fall 2014 edition of The Legal Eagle, we published a story (E-Cigarettes—To Regulate or Not to Regulate) on the relatively new e-cigarette industry and its appropriateness for kids. Since...
Net Neutrality: Keeping the Internet Flowing Freely
In today’s fast-paced world consumers expect a speedy Internet service. The days of waiting endlessly for a website to load are a thing of the past. Or, are they? In the spring 2015 edition of The...
Right to Protest Forms a More Perfect Union
by Jodi L. Miller In the winter 2018 edition of The Legal Eagle, we published a story (Limiting Protest Silences Dissent) about limiting protests, specifically National Football League (NFL) players...
Importance of Protecting Clean Water
There is no reference to the right to clean water in the U.S. Constitution; however, the United Nations General Assembly does recognize a “human right to water.” In the winter 2017 edition of The...
Development of Gene Editing Advancing Rapidly
If you could eradicate a disease from the human race would you do it? It seems like an easy question to answer. In reality, it’s not so simple. In the spring 2017 edition of The Legal Eagle, we...
Making Voter Registration Automatic
There are currently more than 200 million registered voters in the United States. Data from the U.S. Census Bureau conservatively estimates that more than 20 percent of eligible voters are not...