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A Social Prescription for Loneliness: How Regulation Can Help Prevent a Tsunami of Health Problems Through Social Connection

In May 2023, the U.S. Surgeon General declared loneliness a public health crisis. Despite the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, research has demonstrated that historically, social isolation and loneliness have been long-term influencers of negative health consequences prior to the pandemic. Even in our post-pandemic world,

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Staying Off the Android’s Couch: Examining the Burgeoning Regulatory Response to AI Chatbots in Mental Health Care

In 2023, the National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) was forced to remove its AI chatbot “Tessa” from its help hotline after observations of the chatbot providing harmful advice to callers about eating disorders. That same year, a Belgian man committed suicide after a prolonged, emotionally intimate conversation with an experimental

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Lochner, Lawrence, and Liberty

Many of the states of the United States have statutes, constitutional provisions, and court decisions that deny individuals the right to have a family, specifically a spouse and children, based on sexual orientation. Advocates have made a wide variety of arguments attacking such restrictions. Scholars and litigants frequently argue that

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Lenity on Me: LVRC Holdings LLC v. Brekka Points the Way Toward Defining Authorization and Solving the Split Over the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act

According to one recent survey, almost 60% of employees who leave their jobs take company data with them. Indeed, technological advances have made it easier than ever for employees to walk out the door with confidential information: “The digital world is no friend to trade secrets.” Companies’ data loss prevention

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PRIVACY Programs and Protection for Children and Youth: Amend Article 2 of Chapter 5 of Title 49, Relating to Child Abuse and Deprivation Records, so as to Define a Certain Term, Provide for Access by Certain Governmental Entities and Certain Persons t...

The Act expands the definition of “child abuse” by providing for a definition of “near fatality.” It also changes who may access records of child abuse and deprivation to include any governmental agency and certain other persons as defined by the Act. Additionally, it makes cases of near fatality accessible

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