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next day.Twenty-four percent of Black Friday shoppers were at stores at midnight, according to a poll by the National Retail Federation, the industry's biggest trade group. That's up from 9.5 percent the year before when only a few stores were open during that time.Of those shopping at midnight on Black Friday, 37 percent were ages 18 to 34. That percentage was higher than among 35- to 54-year-olds, of whom 23.5 percent were in stores by midnight.Macy's, for one, drew 10,000 people to its midnight opening. Terry Lundgren, Macy's CEO, says many of them were young people who turned out for the Justin Bieber $65 gift sets and discounted fashions.Anika Ruud, 15, of Boca Raton, Fla., went out with her four cousins to Macy's at midnight and then shopped at Target until 2:30 a.m. She picked up two bras at Macy's for $10. Then, she and her cousins went home to bed."It's always been inconvenient," Ruud says of the traditional 4 a.m. Black Friday openings of years past

ylee's Law. The petition has garnered nearly 1.3 million signatures to date.The quick response by so many state legislatures to write versions of the law has drawn criticism."Caylee's Law is a legislative reaction to the public's frustration with the Casey Anthony verdict," said Pace (NY) Law School professor Leslie Garfield, a graduate of UF's Levin College of Law. "Legislators in our country have a history of proposing laws that are reactionary to public outcry following perceived injustice to children."Hager doesn't shy away from that sentiment, but said that doesn't mean the law doesn't have merit."My bill was, in fact, a response to a high-profile crime," Hager said. "And No. 2, this alleged crime occurred in 2008, so my arithmetic suggests that three years is not a knee-jerk response. This is going through a formal process, like every bill goes through."In November a Senate Select Committee on Protecting Florida's Children which was formed in response to A