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Showing posts with label coronavirus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label coronavirus. Show all posts
Sunday, July 3, 2022

Good riddance, covid immigration testing

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I took this photo in Swansea, Mass., back in January 2022 ( CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 RJ Peltz-Steele). The sign well summed up how I was feeling abo...
Wednesday, September 29, 2021

Scholar in torts, comparative law publishes book on Chinese law, article on slow WHO pandemic response

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Professor Chenglin Liu has completed two new and exciting projects of interest to lawyers and legal educators. A torts professor on the fac...
Monday, December 14, 2020

Emergency orders survive constitutional scrutiny; Mass. Court cites Korean War, smallpox cases

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The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) ruled Thursday that pandemic emergency orders of the Commonwealth Governor were valid under t...
Thursday, October 22, 2020

Opioids, coronavirus add up to dangerous interaction

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pxfuel.com Purdue Pharma will plead guilty to criminal charges in the marketing of OxyContin, the Justice Department (DOJ) announced yeste...
Friday, September 11, 2020

Union, university collude to cut Mass. higher ed pay

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UMass Dartmouth ( LGagnon CC BY-SA 3.0 ) The faculty union and university here at UMass Dartmouth, which includes UMass Law School , are...
Saturday, August 29, 2020

Conservationists battle to curb wildlife trade in wet markets, attorney Venckauskas writes

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Prawns at a Marché Kermel in Dakar, Senegal, in February (RJ Peltz-Steele CC BY-SA 4.0 ) Attorney Kayla Venckauskas wrote an overview of c...
Wednesday, May 20, 2020

Talk traces 'nuisance' from King Henry I to COVID-19

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Yesterday I had the privilege to present in a lecture series (virtually) at Jagiellonian University (UJ) on the tort of nuisance in Amer...
Sunday, May 17, 2020

Report from a Social Distance Week 8: Speaking of Football, Magic, and Beer ...

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Del's is a Rhode Island tradition.  ( Photo by Lady Ducayne CC BY-NC 2.0 .) This will be my last weekly report for a while.  I'...
Friday, May 15, 2020

Legal attacks on lockdown mount; R.I. Governor's time will run out, report warns

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Persons entering Rhode Island remain subject to 14-day quarantine in the present phase 1 of reopening. Photo by Taber Andrew Bain CC...
Saturday, May 9, 2020

Report from a Social Distance Week 7: For lockdown horror, 'Dr. Rick' prescribes hibachi, водка, and tulips

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My new doorbell cam spies a ne'er-do-well. Quote of the Week:   "Murder hornets, but with the right lawyer, manslaughter bees...