Congratulations to the Mitchell Hamline School of Law Health Law faculty on their accomplishments.
Date range: December 1, 2019– December 31, 2019
Blanke, Doug
MEDIA: 12/6/2019 Star Tribune
Doug Blanke of the Public Health Law Center was quoted in a Star Tribune article, “Curious Minnesota: Where does all Minnesota’s tobacco tax revenue go?”, about the State of Minnesota’s legal case against the tobacco industry in the 1990’s.
http://m.startribune.com/minnesota-takes-in-millions-each-year-from-tobacco-but-where-does-the-money-go/563
EVENT: 12/12/2019 National Partners Meeting, CDC Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity
Doug Blanke and Julie Ralston Aoki of the Public Health Law Center participated in a National Partners Meeting with the CDC’s Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity in Atlanta, Georgia.
BLOG MENTION: 12/17/2019 Millbank Memorial Fund
Doug Blanke of the Public Health Law Center co-authored a blog post on lessons to be learned for opioid litigation from the tobacco litigation of the 1990s.
https://www.milbank.org/2019/12/what-states-preparing-for-opioid-lawsuit-funds-can-learn-from-tobacco-settlem
Grosz, Jessica
PRESENTATION: 12/12/2019 “Emerging Issues and Best Practices in Commercial Tobacco Control”
Jessica Grosz of the Public Health Law Center presented on emerging issues in commercial tobacco control at an annual appreciation luncheon sponsored by Smoke Free Paso del Norte in El Paso, Texas.
Jenson, Desmond
PRESENTATION: 12/3/2019 “Electronic Smoking Devices, Lung Disease, and Federal Actions/Inaction”
Desmond Jenson of the Public Health Law Center presented on e-cigarettes, lung disease and the FDA in a regional meeting of state tobacco control managers convened by the Public Health Law Center in Durham, North Carolina.
MEDIA: 12/18/2019 Reuters
Desmond Jenson of the Public Health Law Center was quoted in the article “FDA under fire for years of delays on e-cigarette regulation” in Reuters.
https://www.reuters.com/article/juul-ecigarettes-fda-sidebar-idINKBN1YM1D5
Kingston, Hudson
PRESENTATION: 12/3/2019 “Preemption of Local Authority To Regulate Commercial Tobacco Products”
Hudson Kingston of the Public Health Law Center presented on preemption in commercial tobacco control in a regional meeting of state control tobacco managers convened by the Public Health Law Center in Durham, North Carolina.
PRESENTATION: 12/4/2019 “Environmental Impact of Tobacco”
Hudson Kingston of the Public Health Law Center presented on the environmental impact of tobacco in a regional meeting of state tobacco control managers convened by the Public Health Law Center in Durham, North Carolina.
Larson, David
PRESENTATION: 12/4/2019 “I. Strategies for Court-Integrated ODR Design (and) II. Digital Accessibility for Persons with Disabilities.”
Professor David Allen Larson presented a two-part one hour webinar to the Pew Charitable Trusts and the National Center for State Courts titled “I. Strategies for Court-Integrated ODR Design (and) II. Digital Accessibility for Persons with Disabilities.” Professor Larson discussed his experience as the online dispute resolution (ODR) System Designer for the New York State Unified Court System and the evolution of that project from a credit card debt collection platform to a small claims platform. Professor Larson also discussed digital accommodations for persons with disabilities, with specific reference to the Web Content Accessiblity Guidelines and the relevant caselaw regarding the Americans with Disabilities Act, December 9, 2018.
INVITATION: 12/31/2019 University of Texas School of Law
Professor David Larson was invited by The Review of Litigation at the University of Texas School of Law to make a presentation at their symposium in April 2020. They also invited him to submit any article or ideas for an article to be included in next year’s Symposium issue.
Phelps, Natasha
PRESENTATION: 12/19/2019 “Suing Juul: Lawsuits Filed by Minnesota and Other States”
Natasha Phelps and Susan Weisman of the Public Health Law Center gave a presentation about state lawsuits against Juul Labs at the December meeting of the Minnesotans for a Smoke-Free Generation Coalition in Bloomington, Minnesota.
Pope, Thaddeus
PRESENTATION: 12/3/2019 “Minnesota End of Life Options Act”
Professor Thaddeus Pope presented “Minnesota End of Life Options Act” to the Minneapolis League of Women Voters Civic Buzz in Minneapolis, Minnesota
MEDIA: 12/23/2019 Kaiser Health News
Professor Thaddeus Pope was quoted in Charlotte Huff’s article “Texas Law Highlights Dilemma Over Care For Patients With No Hope of Survival” in Kaiser Health News.
https://khn.org/news/texas-law-highlights-dilemma-over-care-for-patients-with-no-hope-of-survival/
PUBLICATION: 12/24/2019 Annals of Internal Medicine
Professor Thaddeus Pope wrote “It’s Time to Revise the Uniform Determination of Death Act,” 171 Annals of Internal Medicine (with Ariane Lewis and Richard Bonnie).
https://annals.org/aim/article-abstract/2758033/s-time-revise-uniform-determination-death-act?searchresult=1
PUBLICATION: 12/31/2019 Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics
Professor Thaddeus Pope co-wrote “Determination of Death by Neurologic Criteria in the United States: The Case for Revising the Uniform Determination of Death Act,” 47(4) Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 9-24 (2019) (with Ariane Lewis, Leon G. Epstein, David M. Greer, Matthew P. Kirschen, Michael Rubin, James A. Russell, Richard J. Bonnie).
PUBLICATION: 12/31/2019 Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) PS-Net
Professor Thaddeus Pope co-wrote “Do You Want Everything Done?”: Clarifying Code Status with Karl Steinberg.
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/do-you-want-everything-done-clarifying-code-status
Ralston Aoki, Julie
EVENT: 12/9/2019 InterTribal Agriculture Council Annual Meeting
Julie Ralston Aoki of the Public Health Law Center participated in the InterTribal Agriculture Council Annual Meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada.
EVENT: 12/12/2019 National Partners Meeting, CDC Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity
Julie Ralston Aoki and Doug Blanke of the Public Health Law Center participated in a National Partners Meeting with the CDC’s Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity in Atlanta, Georgia.
Weisman, Susan
PRESENTATION: 12/19/2019 “Suing Juul: Lawsuits Filed by Minnesota and Other States”
Susan Weisman and Natasha Phelps of the Public Health Law Center gave a presentation about state lawsuits against Juul Labs at the December meeting of the Minnesotans for a Smoke-Free Generation Coalition in Bloomington, Minnesota.