July 01, 2022
“There is a real question about Juul’s ability to contribute much to a settlement if there’s a strong possibility its income is substantially curtailed,” said Mark Gottlieb, executive director of Northeastern Law’s Public Health Advocacy Institute, tells Insurance Journal. “That has reduced the settlement value for the enormous pool of cases brought against Juul.”
July 01, 2022
In an article penned for the International City/County Management Association, Sarah Peck '96, director of UnitedOnGuns, outlines some of the vital resources the initiative has developed especially for city officials.
July 01, 2022
Professors Martha Davis and Jeremy Paul tell News@Northeastern the anti-abortion cause, despite its institutional foothold on the Supreme Court, will diminish in strength given time—and that reproductive rights will, in a long drawn-out political and legal struggle, win out.
July 01, 2022
Watch: In a live interview with NBC Boston, Professor Alexandra Meise explains some of the broader implications of the Supreme Court’s ruling curbing the federal government’s ability to restrict greenhouse gas emissions from power plants.
June 30, 2022
Professor Daniel Medwed, a criminal law expert, and a team of five other law professors have prevailed in a federal court ruling that vindicated crucial First Amendment rights and upheld the use of holding prosecutors accountable for misconduct through publishing disciplinary complaints against them.
June 29, 2022
In her latest piece for the Human Rights at Home Blog, Professor Martha Davis addresses Justice Alito’s dismissal of an equal protection challenge to abortion restrictions.
June 28, 2022
Professor Hemanth Gundavaram, director of Northeastern Law's Immigrant Justice Clinic, joined WGN Radio's Legal Face-Off podcast, to discuss recent and upcoming Supreme Court immigration rulings.
June 27, 2022
SCOTUS justices did not commit perjury, says Professor Dan Urman, but their careful lawyerly phrasing demonstrated their stance on Roe v Wade.
June 27, 2022
“Even if chiefs see an officer using excessive force or know that an officer has repeated complaints filed against them, it's difficult for the chief to discipline them because the union-controlled arbitration process overturns the verdict," Professor Deborah Ramirez, an advocate for a professional liability insurance system for police offers, tells USA TODAY.
June 26, 2022
“We haven’t seen this kind of battle about … the reach of the jurisdiction of one state over another in a very long time,” Professor Wendy Parmet, director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Health Policy and Law, tells The Washington Post . “Nothing of this magnitude have we seen since the Civil War.”
June 25, 2022
Professors Martha Davis and Jeremy Paul react to the SCOTUS decision to overturn Roe v. Wade
June 25, 2022
Professor Wendy Parmet tells NBC News it’s unclear whether the FDA can preempt a state’s prohibition on mifepristone: “We don’t have a Supreme Court decision on [this] point, and even if we did, we have a Supreme Court willing to overturn decisions.”