Publication of the 2021 Sisk, et al., study of law faculty scholarly impact, Brian Leiter has been compiling lists of the most cited law faculty by subject areas for the period 2016-2020, as well as an overall list of the most cited law faculty. Leiter’s tabulations are based upon the same data as the Sisk […]
George Stephanopolous interviewed Justice Stephen Breyer on ABC News’ Good Morning America, and the justice again refused to say when he might retire. Justice Breyer did, however, confirm that he dissented from the Supreme Court’s denial of injunctive relief in Whole Women’s Health v. Jackson because he disagreed with it: “I thought that was a very […]
Last week, the Honorable Don Willett of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit delivered the 2021 Sumner Canary Memorial Lecture at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law on “Supreme Stalemates.” The lecture explored what happens when supreme courts split Read More Article from Latest – Reason.com Jonathan H. Adler
This past week the White House announced a series of new, aggressive COVID-19 policies. In addition to the new OSHA emergency standard requiring large employers to test or vaccinate their employees, the Biden Administration also announced that it would require Medicare and Medicaid service providers to mandate vaccination of their workers. This too may raise […]
President Biden’s announcement that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) will require large employers to mandate the vaccination or testing of their employees has already prompted a raft of commentary and controversy. The standard, once issued, is sure to invite legal challenges, the most serious of which will likely focus on the yet-to-be-disclosed particulars […]
My initial reaction to the Supreme Court’s decision denying the Biden Administration’s to preserve its repeal of the Trump Administration’s Migrant Protection Protocol (MPP, better known as “Remain in Mexico”) policy was that this decision logically followed from the Supreme Court’s decision in DHS v. Regents of the University of California. It seems to me the two […]
Yesterday a federal district court judge in Arizona vacated and remanded the Trump Administration’s “Navigable Waters Protection Rule” (NWPR) which adopted a somewhat narrow definition of “waters of the United States” (WOTUS) under the the Clean Water Act (CWA). This definition is important because it determines the scope of federal regulatory authority under the CWA, […]
