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In the thick of the COVID-19 pandemic, demand for vital resources has surpassed supply. Already, COVID-19 tests, protective gear, ICU beds, ventilators, experimental interventions,...
The latest antitrust suit brought by college basketball and football players ended (for now) with a partial victory for the athletes. In a unanimous...
The fight for civil rights in the United States has historically focused on equal access to physical spaces: schools, workplaces, lunch counters, hotels, voting...
Introduction In our earlier post, we described how the legal bases for countries’ coronavirus responses typically fall into three broad categories. First, some countries...
Introduction The fight against COVID-19 has led many countries, including liberal democracies, to take extraordinary measures that would undoubtedly be constitutionally problematic in normal...
COVID-19 in the United States is a national health and economic crisis, and it requires an all-hands-on-deck-approach. Our system of federalism of which we...
The shortage of ventilators and personal protective equipment (PPE) in parts of the country has raised the most acute equality concerns regarding the treatment...
Not surprisingly, local and state government orders aimed at mitigating the spread of novel coronavirus have already provoked a series of objections grounded in...