Jan 2, 2025 | The Legal Eagle Lowdown
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 either total bans or restrictions on using them in school, according to an...
Jan 2, 2025 | The Legal Eagle Lowdown
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 why shouldn’t they reap the benefits. Others say scholarships and...
Aug 29, 2024 | The Legal Eagle Lowdown
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 law and policy organization. In its latest “Voting Laws Roundup” from...
Aug 28, 2024 | The Legal Eagle Lowdown
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 their vote for the November election. Here’s what the call said: “This...
Aug 28, 2024 | The Legal Eagle Lowdown
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 workers work diligently to make elections across the country run...
Mar 22, 2024 | The Legal Eagle Lowdown
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 searching for before you finish typing, when composing a text or email and...
