By Caroline Benec, Staff Writer 2022 marks five years since Senate Bill 196 (“Alina’s Law”) was introduced to the Pennsylvania General Assembly, giving civil courts the authority to mandate that anyone under a protection from abuse order (“PFA”), both the victim-survivor and the alleged abuser, wear an electronic monitoring device.[1] […]
Photo provided courtesy of Pixabay.com By Samantha Dorn, Staff Writer Some of the biggest technology companies in the country involve changing the ways that political campaigns and other groups can target voters on their websites. Through a marketing strategy known as “microtargeting,” political campaigns and groups use computer data to […]
By Shreya Desai, Staff Writer On May 2, 2019, the Trump administration and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights announced that it would finalize the “conscience” rule (the Rule), which would allow healthcare professionals to deny care based on their own personal beliefs, to […]
By Samantha Cook, Editor-in-Chief Earlier this year, students at the McKeesport Area High School (MAHS) began the process of organizing a McKeesport Black Student Union (MBSU) to address concerns relating to disciplinary and educational biases within the school district.[1] According to a complaint filed by MAHS students, their request was […]
By Nicole Prieto, Editor-in-Chief LGBT rights remain a hotly contested subject in 2017. From a newly minted Circuit split and inter-executive agency dispute in employment law,[1] to First Amendment justifications for discriminatory business decisions,[2] there is no dearth of legal challenges that have tested the boundaries of modern LGBT rights. […]
