Kentucky, Ohio, and Tennessee sued the Biden Administration Wednesday in response to the COVID-19 vaccine mandate issued for federal contractors. Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron filed the suit, calling the mandate “unlawful and unconstitutional.” The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) laid out the requirements, ordering companies with 100 or more employees to have those employees [...]

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) published Thursday an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, seeking public comment on the continued use of videoconference technology. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, the NLRB has held most hearings remotely. While the Board stated that it intends to resume hearings in person once conditions permit, it is considering whether to [...]

The Supreme Court of India has issued directions while seeking a status report on the rehabilitation of children in street situations. The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) and all the state governments and the union territories have been directed to submit the status report within two weeks. The top court had taken [...]

A US District Court on Friday denied a temporary restraining order sought by 130 Chicago firefighters and other city employees against COVID-19 vaccine mandates in the city of Chicago. Although district judge John Lee did not dismiss the lawsuit in its entirety, he explained in Friday’s ruling that the city employees had not shown a [...]

The Supreme Court denied a request Friday to block a Maine rule that requires health care workers to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. On August 12, Maine health officials revised the list of diseases against which health care workers must be vaccinated, adding COVID-19 to the list. Workers who have a valid medical exemption are not [...]

At the moment, there are over 70.8 million people forcibly displaced from their homes. The fast mobility of large populations is an inalienable part of humanity that is driven by drought, famine, earthquake, climate change, political opinion, massive violation of human rights, religious persecution, racial discrimination, ideological conflict, war, and pandemic diseases. People fleeing such [...]

“The world is contending with the increasing incidence and severity of a wide range of highly infectious diseases.” These words appear in Responsibility for Epidemics, an article I wrote in 2018. There have of course been dire warnings about a global pandemic for a while. In Responsibility for Epidemics, I argue that a broader conceptualization [...]

The world in a plague year is a world turned upside down. Everything familiar becomes strange, and everything normal becomes peculiar. Commodities become scarce and luxuries become worthless. Leisure becomes insufferable and labor becomes precious. The great become small and the small reveal their greatness. But one thing is constant. The plagiarism police remain vigilant. [...]

Imagine you are in your third year of law school. The finish line of graduation is ahead of you and the most important test of your entire life looms on the horizon. You have gone through your law school classes for the last three years knowing that you will have to study for two to [...]

These are difficult times. The world is unraveling around the edges. Societies are reeling under the threat of “The Virus”. Fear is spreading faster than the virus itself. People are looking to survive. Survival instincts are or could start to set in. Citizens are also looking for decisive and strong leadership by those in power [...]