BY ANAILI MEDINA — High school: a place to meet people? Make friendships? Make mistakes? Or get into relationships that last, end, or get you in jail? High school students usually span from ages fourteen to eighteen. Freshmen and seniors may have elective classes and/or play sports together. They may have common friends and common […]
BY DAN WOLFE — Arguably one of the greatest revolutions of our time, the Internet continues to find ways to make our lives easier every day. This author remembers when his fifth-grade teacher first allowed his class to use Internet sources for history reports. Even at ten years old, this author could appreciate how much […]
BY SHEKIDA A. SMITH — On August 17, the New Jersey Superior Court of Appeals held that negligence liability, which is traditionally claimed in car crashes where a texting driver is to blame, may be extended to the individual who sent the original text. The case caption is Kubert v. Best. The plaintiffs in the […]
BY MATTHEW E. KOHEN — On June 10, 2013, the Supreme Court of the United States issued its opinion in Peugh v. United States. This case—involving the retroactive application of U.S. Sentencing Guidelines—implicates interesting constitutional concerns. In a term where some of the opinions issued (see, e.g., Salinas v. Texas and Maryland v. King) caused […]
BY DANIEL BUTLER — Over the past few years, Congress has been supplying a steady stream of material to late-night television show hosts and comedians. The legislative laugh fodder ranges from the inherently comical (the labeling of pizza as a vegetable) to the seemingly sinister (the debt-ceiling debacle). So what display of Congressional incompetence prompted […]
