In the News - 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 “Hedge Funds Elbow Aside Creditors in Fast-Tracked Bankruptcies.”
College and Community StoriesStudents Help Demystify Tax RulesStudents at UC Law SF’ new Low-Income Taxpayer Clinic drew on their own experiences this year to help educate disadvantaged taxpayers about their rights and responsibilities.
Media Highlights
FDA authorizes the first coronavirus vaccine, a rare moment of hope in the deadly pandemic
Washington Post—December 13, 2020
Dorit Reiss: “There was no plausible way the FDA would not authorize this vaccine.”
City Visions: Police Reform, COVID Updates, and Christmas Music from Grace Cathedral
KALW—December 14, 2020
Hadar Aviram: “Most of the encounters that you experience in urban streets are ones that you don’t necessarily need law enforcement for.”
Electoral College to meet, cast votes for president on Monday
ABC7News—December 14, 2020
Rory Little: “There are still these Hail Mary theories how this could be swung away from Biden but it seems almost impossible that that would happen.”
Legal Intelligence—December 15, 2020
Shanin Specter: “There’s only one reason for a defendant to settle a catastrophic injury case and that’s the prospect of a jury verdict.”
The State of California: Biden clinches the Electoral College
KCBS Radio—December 15, 2020
Rory Little: “Constitutional and statutory structures are still working. Despite unprecedented efforts to disrupt that systems, Joe Biden will still be installed as president on January 20th.”
US vaccine injury payouts do not mean immunization is unsafe
AFP Factcheck—December 15, 2020
Dorit Reiss: “Focusing on the number, rather than the rate of compensation, when it’s a 30-year-old number that covers relatively few cases of harm, is misleading.”
Plaintiffs lawyer rips colleagues over multidistrict litigation fees, pressure tactics
Legal Newsline—December 15, 2020
Shanin Specter: Specter was disgusted by the tactics of lawyers who signed up far more clients than they could represent and then pressured them to accept settlement offers.
‘Whose lives matter most?’: California’s vaccine rollout faces tough questions of equity
The Guardian—December 16, 2020
Hadar Aviram: “Vaccinating incarcerated people is essential for the people in prison who can’t escape the virus.”
Democrats: Trump’s WOTUS ‘sidestepped’ the law
Greenwire—December 16, 2020
Dave Owen: Democrats are urging a district court to hear a case challenging the Trump administration’s controversial rule determining which waters are afforded protections under the Clean Water Act. The brief was written by Dave Owen.
US Moves To Send Asylum-Seekers To El Salvador Under Deal
Law 360—December 16, 2020
Karen Musalo: Karen Musalo told Law360 she didn’t think the incoming Biden administration would attempt to salvage the three agreements.