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Thoughts on teen law by Judge Tom Jacobs.

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WHAT?? Cell phones banned at school?

That’s right. Starting with the current 2018 school year, all students in France under age 15 are prohibited from using 

Jamel Myles
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2018 school year begins with tragic bullycide

Most of you are headed back to school or may have already begun the new school year. In the Denver, 

wild fire
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Teenager ordered to pay $36 million for reckless burning

Is that possible? Can anyone realistically be expected to pay that kind of money in their lifetime? In this particular 

revenge porn
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Revenge porn results in millions for victim

Jane Doe (victim’s name not disclosed) met David K. Elam II while she was in law school. It became a 

recreational marijuana
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State and federal laws govern recreational pot taken across state lines

As of January 1, 2018, eight states and the District of Columbia legalized the recreational use of marijuana. California joined 

Obama letter to MSD students
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The President writes to Parkland students

Ahead of the national march in  Washington, D.C. on Saturday, March 24, 2018, former President Barack Obama and First Lady, 

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Democracy or “swats?”

You are well aware of the massacre on Valentine’s Day of 2018. Fourteen students and three teachers were killed at 

parental notification of bullying
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Can my teacher/coach “out” me to my parents?

The issue regarding a student’s right to privacy versus the right of a parent to know about bullying at school 

student activists
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Too young to vote? Then speak out and march!!

Due to the tragedy at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida on February 14, 2018, there’s a movement 

Candlelight Vigil
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Congressional Inaction

We have written many times about the Second Amendment and America’s obsession with everything gun related. But we must continue 

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