Major Questions about Vaccine Mandates, the Supreme Court, and the Major Questions Doctrine

“In the absence of principled guidelines, the [major questions] doctrine serves as a major transfer of federal policymaking power from the elected branches to an unelected and unaccountable judiciary,” writes Professor Wendy Parmet in a co-authored piece for the Petrie Flom Center’s Bill of Health Blog. “Worse, it offers those who are regulated yet another way to challenge any and all federal health regulations, allowing litigation to become our primary means of making public health policy.”

D.C. Circuit Could Finally Fix IRS Whistleblower Program

“The IRS whistleblower program’s success in detecting and deterring tax crimes has been undermined by a recent US Tax Court decision concerning the appropriate standard of review for analyzing decisions made by the IRS Whistleblower Office,” writes Siri Nelson ’19, executive director of the National Whistleblower Center (NWC) and an adjunct professor at Northeastern Law, in a co-authored op-ed for Bloomberg Tax.

The Other Public Health Crisis: How The DOJ Can Flatten the Overdose Curve

“If this administration is serious about ending the overdose crisis, it will need to redeploy the tools of the DOJ in true service to public health. Change can’t come soon enough,” write Professor Leo Beletsky and his colleagues at Health in Justice Action Lab, in a co-authored op-ed for The Appeal.

Man Charged With Homicide for Sharing Drugs With Woman Who Later Died

“Fatal overdoses result in part because people use in isolation and because witnesses are reluctant to call 911,” Professor Leo Beletsky tells The Appeal. “This is why public health efforts like naloxone distribution and Good Samaritan laws try to remove barriers to life-saving interventions.”