Many Americans Perceive a Rise in Dangerous Driving

Across the country, parents and their children have a running battle over when it’s time to put the cellphones away. “I don’t feel like I’m getting the same level of engagement when he’s on the phone for an extended period of time,” Melinda Rozsalyi, a mother in the Washington suburbs, says of her 14-year-old son, Adam.

Over the first two decades of the 21st century, the nature of civil litigation in the United States changed dramatically. Civil courts that were designed to be used almost exclusively by lawyers are now dominated by business-to-consumer cases that most often feature a company with an attorney suing an individual without one.

The Safe Roads and Wildlife Protection Act, signed into law on Sept. 30, takes a comprehensive approach to addressing ecosystem connectivity from a transportation perspective.