Overview CFIT Holding Corp. v. Twin City Insurance Co. (U.S. District Court, N.D. Illinois, July 8, 2021): An Illinois federal district court found that an…
Overview Whole Woman’s Health v. Jackson (U.S. Supreme Court, Dec. 10, 2021): The Supreme Court allowed private abortion providers in Texas to challenge Texas’s restrictive…
Voting impacts public health policies ranging from healthcare access to gun control and LGBTQ rights. In this Q&A, Network Southeastern Region Office Director Dawn Hunter discusses the newly launched Health & Democracy Index, which shows measures of health status (individual and population health and other population characteristics, including self-rated health, premature mortality, infant mortality, poverty rates, and community and family safety) relative to the Cost of Voting Index for each state. Dawn also outlines legal and policy strategies to improve voter participation and health.
Overview Estate of Joseph Maglioli v. Alliance HC Holdings, LLC (U.S. Court of Appeals, 3rd Circuit, Oct. 20, 2021): The 3rd Circuit found that federal…
Overview Proctor v. Krzanowski (U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit, August 13, 2020): The Sixth Circuit rejected a Michigan doctor’s claim that his Fourteenth Amendment due…
Public and private employers across the U.S. are considering the potential for COVID-19 vaccine requirements for their workforces, especially among health care workers. This resource examines the likelihood of employer vaccine mandates.
This fact sheet outlines efforts, both legislative and other, to evaluate and improve public health authority and emergency response in the aftermath of the pandemic.
Overview Eviction is costly and damaging for all parties involved. For tenants, “[e]viction is a cause, not just a condition, of poverty,” precipitating a “spiral…
Overview The consequences of eviction do not end with a tenant’s removal from their home. Many tenants fail to recognize that a trip to housing…
Overview More than two million eviction cases are filed against tenants each year in the United States. That’s roughly one eviction filing every four minutes.
In this Q&A, Betsy Lawton, senior staff attorney at the Network’s Northern Region Office, discusses some of the key elements in the chapter she authored, “COVID-19 Illustrates Need to Close the Digital Divide.”
Overview Last summer, as the disparities in COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths continued to worsen and amid racial justice protests following the murder of George…
