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Addiction-Based Liability: Social Media as the Modern Day Cigarette

February 27, 2026By Nadia Jordan

Social media is a regular part of everyday life, and it shapes how millions of people get information, entertainment, and connect with others. Platforms like TikTok market themselves as entertainment, using short videos and viral trends to keep users engaged.[i] For many users, these engaging, or addictive, features go unnoticed because they have become the […]

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The Pilot’s Dilemma to “Get Help or Keep Your Job”: How Federal Law Creates a Lack of Access to Pilots’ Mental Health Care

April 16, 2024By Rosanne Sherman

There is an elephant in the cockpit. Pilots have described the elephant as “at best humiliating or embarrassing, at worst the end of our flying careers.”[i] The “elephant” is mental illness, which the general public has universally stigmatized. There is an increasing number of pilots flying while suffering from an untreated mental illness that […]

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Addiction-Based Liability: Social Media as the Modern Day Cigarette

The Pilot’s Dilemma to “Get Help or Keep Your Job”: How Federal Law Creates a Lack of Access to Pilots’ Mental Health Care