Sep 2, 2023 | The Legal Eagle Lowdown
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 customers encountered website crashes, sparse availability, unusable presale...
Aug 29, 2023 | The Legal Eagle Lowdown
by Michael Barbella Are you itching to cast a ballot in your first election? If you’re 17, you may get the chance. New Jersey may be joining a growing number of states that are expanding electoral rights by adjusting the state voting age. Americans have been debating...
Aug 29, 2023 | The Legal Eagle Lowdown
by Maria Wood Faced with a nationwide labor shortage since the COVID-19 pandemic, several states, including New Jersey, have loosened their child labor laws to help employee-strapped businesses hire more staff. According to a June 2023 report from the Economic Policy...
Mar 28, 2023 | The Legal Eagle Lowdown
by Sylvia Mendoza When an active shooter entered the Michigan State University campus on February 13, 2023, killing three students and wounding five others, for some it would be the second mass shooting they survived. Several MSU students had also survived a shooting...
Mar 28, 2023 | The Legal Eagle Lowdown
by Michael Barbella Federal gun safety legislation signed into law by President Joseph Biden in June 2022 includes $250 million for the establishment of state crisis intervention court proceedings, including extreme risk protection orders (ERPO). Depending on what...
Mar 27, 2023 | The Legal Eagle Lowdown
by Daryl E Lucas In almost every other industry, if you’ve sustained an injury, you have some course of redress through the courts. Not so with the gun industry, which includes gun makers, sellers and distributors. They are shielded by the Protection of Lawful...
