Overview County of Butler v. Wolf (U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, September 14, 2020) – The U.S. District Court for the Western…
Overview Illinois Republican Party, et. al. v. Pritzker (U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit, September 3, 2020): The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals refused to block…
Overview Grimm v. Gloucester County School Board (U.S. Court of Appeals, 4th Circuit, August 26, 2020) –The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit ruled…
Overview Raysor, et al. v. DeSantis (U.S. Supreme Court, July 16, 2020): The Supreme Court ordered that it would not disturb an eleventh Circuit Court of…
As the nation awaits the arrival of a COVID-19 vaccine, local and state health officials are making plans to distribute the vaccine.
Speakers in this webinar discussed challenges and solutions to the voting process in the midst of a pandemic, including legal barriers to turnout, election protection, and mitigating the public health risks. ⠀ ⠀ ⠀
A county health department seeks guidance on whether the department can issue a press release indicating that individuals who attended a party on a specific date at a specific address may have been exposed to COVID-19. As explained in detail below, there are no legal barriers to issuing the proposed press release. Instead, this is a policy question within the health department’s discretion.
The health and wellness of tribal nations depend on effective data collection and analysis. Despite being sovereign nations, tribes need help from the states in gathering the data needed to improve tribal health and well-being, but a lack of trust has interfered with data sharing arrangements. The keys to establishing and maintaining trust are respecting tribal data sovereignty and honoring the United States’ trust responsibility to tribal nations. This fact sheet focuses on strategies states should take to support indigenous data sovereignty.
The Equity Assessment Framework provides a way to assess the equity implications of existing or proposed laws or policies. It can assist in identifying issues in the drafting, design, or implementation of a law or policy that could have a disproportionate impact on different population groups. ⠀
The “Public Health Law in a Minute” series is designed to increase accessibility to the field by breaking down the public health law topics that are impacting you and your community.
