In the News - December 14, 2020
Media Highlights
Yes, Your Boss Can Fire You If You Refuse to Get a COVID Vaccine
NBC San Diego—December 7, 2020
Dorit Reiss: “Requiring a vaccine is a health and safety work rule, and employers can do that.”
Covid-19 Dealt a Blow to Working Women. Can We Emerge Stronger?
New York Times Opinion—December 7, 2020
Joan Wililams: “The ideal worker concept is itself dependent on the “breadwinner-homemaker” model, a relic of an earlier age when the average man went off to his job and the average woman kept house.”
What is a ‘COVID-19 passport’? Concept raises both hope and concern
Today.com—December 8, 2020
Dorit Reiss: “Restaurants, bars and stores can refuse service to customers for pretty much any reason — but must give reasonable accommodation for people covered by certain anti-discrimination laws.”
Judge’s ruling on Einstein-Jefferson merger hinges on insurers, not patients
PBS Whyy.org—December 9, 2020
Tim Greaney: ”If other judges follow the analysis from this ruling, it could be harder for the government to argue against mergers in the future.”
College and Community Stories
Colorado AG Cites Feldman and C4i’s Research in Insulin Report
The Colorado Department of Law released a report earlier this month on the high cost of insulin and the barriers to access facing Coloradans that cited work by Professor Robin Feldman and UC Law SF’ Center for Innovation (C4i).
Scholarly Leadership
Jonathan Abel won a case in the Ninth Circuit on whether an officer opening the passenger door of a vehicle and sticking his head inside the car was a Fourth Amendment search.
Dave Owen presented “The Law and Ecology of Dam Removals” at the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation conference on water law.
Dorit Reiss published The Covid-19 Vaccine Dilemma, Administrative Law Review.
Reuel Schiller spoke on a panel on “Publishing Legal History Books in the Coronavirus Era” at the American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting.
David Takacs gave the keynote talk, “Making Elephants Fungible: Biodiversity Offsetting and the Law,” at the South Africa Conservation Symposium. He also presented “Rivers With Rights.”
Jessica Vapnek presented the results of a study on “Legislative and Regulatory Frameworks for Family Farming” to parliamentarians convened by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (with Peter Boaz).