December 21, 2020
Scholarly Leadership Dorit Reiss published “Mandating COVID-19 Testing and Vaccination in the Workplace,” The Regulatory Review.Jodi Short wrote “Facile Formalism: Counting the Ways the Court’s Removal Jurisprudence Has Failed” for the Yale Journal on Regulation’s Notice and Comment Blog.Jared Ellias’s research was covered in the Bloomberg article…
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…
December 7, 2020
Media Highlights After 6 Months in Limbo, Philadelphia Court Sets January Date for Restart of Civil Jury Trials Legal Intelligence—December 1, 2020 Shanin Specter: “I am optimistic that Philadelphia’s judges will do what can be done to get trials up and running as soon as possible, so parties can…
December 1, 2020
Media Highlights Let’s hear it for the judges for dismissing Trump’s lawsuits Boston Globe—November 23, 2020 Joseph Grodin: If our democracy survives the current president’s onslaughts, it will be due in large part to the existence of a judiciary committed to the rule of law. Pfizer’s…
November 23, 2020
Media Highlights Federal Water Rule Expected to Stay Murky Through Biden Term Bloomberg Law—November 20, 2020 Dave Owen: “I think it’s going to be a mess for a pretty long time.” What Trump Showed Us About America Politico—November 19, 2020 Joan Williams: “Americans feel…
November 16, 2020
Media Highlights Employers Facing Wave of Lawsuits by Parents Fired During Pandemic Insurance Journal—November 12, 2020 Joan Williams: “We’re going to be seeing the economic consequences of this period — and they’re going to be to impoverish women and children for decades.” Uber Brands Gig Companies’…
November 9, 2020
Media Highlights Federal Supply Deal For COVID-19 Antibody Treatment Lacks Some Customary Protections NPR—November 6, 2020 Robin Feldman: “With these contracting practices, the administration is essentially giving away the store.” Uber and Lyft’s Big Win BBC—November 6, 2020 Veena Dubal: “What Prop 22 does…
November 2, 2020
Media Highlights Asylum Is Dead. The Myth of American Decency Died With It. Mother Jones—November/December 2020 Karen Musalo: “To pretend that those countries are safe countries for asylum seekers is beyond obscene.” Without Barrett, Supreme Court Halts Pennsylvania and North Carolina Attempts to Limit Ballot Counts…
October 26, 2020
Media Highlights How Should We Use Public Lands? Voters Will Help Decide Aspen Public Radio—October 23, 2020 John Leshy: “I think it’s fair to say the Trump administration’s policies aim at nothing less than a complete upending of many decades of bipartisan policy making concerning public lands.”…
October 12, 2020
Media Highlights Uber and Gig Companies Spend Nearly $200 Million to Knock Down an Employment Law They Don’t Like—and it Might Work Washington Post—October 9, 2020 Veena Dubal: The gig companies are following a long…
October 5, 2020
Media Highlights A Rush to Confirm Justice Nominee Can Hurt Supreme Court for Years The Hill—October 2, 2020 James Wagstaffe: Hurriedly replacing the leading lioness of liberalism with a dogmatic conservative could threaten the critical dynamism of the Supreme Court for a generation to come. So,…
September 28, 2020
Media Highlights The Pandemic Imperils Working Mothers’ Careers Society for Human Resource Management—September 26, 2020 Joan Williams: “There’s no wishing this pandemic away. If employers don’t come to terms with this, we will come out a workforce bleached of mothers.” Blue Health Insurers Reach Tentative Antitrust…