The Impossibility of Legal Accountability for COVID-19 Torts
Torts scholars reflect on questions surrounding whether and how entities might be held liable for the harms associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection.
Judicial Opinions
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Read more: Abortion Bans Threatening Pregnant Patients’ Lives Are Unconstitutional Abortion Bans Threatening Pregnant Patients’ Lives Are Unconstitutional
When abortion bans contravene physician implementation of life-saving interventions for pregnant patients, they cross a constitutional line.
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Read more: Federal Failures to Protect Incarcerated People During Public Health Crises Federal Failures to Protect Incarcerated People During Public Health Crises
For over a year prisoners were denied our most fundamental support systems.
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Read more: The Fourth Amendment and the Post-Roe Future of Privacy The Fourth Amendment and the Post-Roe Future of Privacy
Legislative and industry measures are needed to protect personal data against unreasonable, overreaching surveillance after the fall of Roe.
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Read more: Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health and Its Devastating Implications for Immigrants’ Rights Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health and Its Devastating Implications for Immigrants’ Rights
Immigrants are now even more vulnerable to reproductive oppression in light of the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs.
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Read more: Abortion Rights Under Siege in Italy Post-Dobbs Abortion Rights Under Siege in Italy Post-Dobbs
Now that the far right has reached the majority in both the Italian Parliament and Senate, access to abortion in Italy could soon face new restrictions.
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Read more: Restricting Reproductive Rights During the War on Drugs: Intersectional Regimes of Surveillance and Criminalization That Harm Us All Restricting Reproductive Rights During the War on Drugs: Intersectional Regimes of Surveillance and Criminalization That Harm Us All
Pregnant and parenting people who use drugs face the threat of civil or criminal punishment under nearly every conceivable circumstance.
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Read more: The Dr. Oz Paradox The Dr. Oz Paradox
Why does the law sanction giving bad advice to one patient, while it permits giving bad advice to millions of YouTube or television viewers?
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Read more: The Institutionalization Missing Data Problem The Institutionalization Missing Data Problem
Efforts to monitor health outcomes of people with disabilities are woefully inadequate. This stems, in part, from widespread institutionalization.
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Read more: Building a Progressive Assisted Reproductive Technology Law in South Africa Building a Progressive Assisted Reproductive Technology Law in South Africa
A recent decision by a South African high court struck out the statutory ban on non-medical preimplantation sex selection.
