Running Cover for Death: Pandemic Minimizers Normalize an Inhumane Baseline
We should resist the temptation to justify the present level of death as better than some counterfactual.
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Read more: Learning from the ‘COVID War’ Learning from the ‘COVID War’
Preventing pandemic destruction is not just a question of “how to.” It is a question of organizing power from below.
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Read more: In-Flight COVID Transmission: Surveying the Liability Landscape In-Flight COVID Transmission: Surveying the Liability Landscape
Do airlines have legal obligations to manage the risk of in-flight infections?
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Read more: Relying on the Unreliable? COVID-19 Claims Can’t Proceed Without a Proper Standard of Care Relying on the Unreliable? COVID-19 Claims Can’t Proceed Without a Proper Standard of Care
Without a reliable standard of care, COVID-19 tort claims should not see the success achieved in other contagious disease cases.
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Read more: Tort Liability for Faculty Who Fail to Tell the Class About COVID Cases in Their Midst Tort Liability for Faculty Who Fail to Tell the Class About COVID Cases in Their Midst
Faculty should not assume that keeping mum about known cases of COVID is legally acceptable.
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Read more: The Pathology (and Politics) of Liability Shields The Pathology (and Politics) of Liability Shields
The COVID liability landscape has presented less of a narrative about the development of substantive torts doctrine and more a study in politics.
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Read more: Tort Liability is a Potentially Powerful Tool for Pandemic Response Tort Liability is a Potentially Powerful Tool for Pandemic Response
Liability exposure encourages precautions through economic incentives rather than administrative agency directives.
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Read more: California Supreme Court to Decide If Employers May Be Liable for ‘Take-Home’ COVID-19 California Supreme Court to Decide If Employers May Be Liable for ‘Take-Home’ COVID-19
Should an employer be held liable if an employee contracts COVID in the workplace and subsequently “takes it home” and infects a family member?
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Read more: COVID-19 and the Problem of Multiple Sufficient Causes COVID-19 and the Problem of Multiple Sufficient Causes
Thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, what seemed like an antiquated doctrine to be relegated to the age of sparking trains may be steaming back into relevance.
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Read more: The Impossibility of Legal Accountability for COVID-19 Torts 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.
