Date range: December 1, 2019\u2013 December 31, 2019<\/p>\n
Doug Blanke of the Public Health Law Center was quoted in a Star Tribune article, \u201cCurious Minnesota: Where does all Minnesota\u2019s tobacco tax revenue go?\u201d, about the State of Minnesota\u2019s legal case against the tobacco industry in the 1990\u2019s. Doug Blanke and Julie Ralston Aoki of the Public Health Law Center participated in a National Partners Meeting with the CDC\u2019s Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity in Atlanta, Georgia.<\/p>\n 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. <\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n Desmond Jenson of the Public Health Law Center was quoted in the article \u201cFDA under fire for years of delays on e-cigarette regulation\u201d in Reuters. <\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n 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\u2019s Symposium issue.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Professor Thaddeus Pope presented “Minnesota End of Life Options Act” to the Minneapolis League of Women Voters Civic Buzz in Minneapolis, Minnesota<\/p>\n 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. Professor Thaddeus Pope wrote “It\u2019s Time to Revise the Uniform Determination of Death Act,” 171 Annals of Internal Medicine (with Ariane Lewis and Richard Bonnie). 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).<\/p>\n
\nhttp:\/\/m.startribune.com\/minnesota-takes-in-millions-each-year-from-tobacco-but-where-does-the-money-go\/563<\/a><\/p>\n\nEVENT: 12\/12\/2019 National Partners Meeting, CDC Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity<\/h4>\n
\nBLOG MENTION: 12\/17\/2019 Millbank Memorial Fund<\/h4>\n
\nhttps:\/\/www.milbank.org\/2019\/12\/what-states-preparing-for-opioid-lawsuit-funds-can-learn-from-tobacco-settlem<\/a><\/p>\nGrosz, Jessica<\/h3>\n
PRESENTATION: 12\/12\/2019 \u201cEmerging Issues and Best Practices in Commercial Tobacco Control\u201d<\/h4>\n
Jenson, Desmond<\/h3>\n
PRESENTATION: 12\/3\/2019 \u201cElectronic Smoking Devices, Lung Disease, and Federal Actions\/Inaction\u201d<\/h4>\n
\nMEDIA: 12\/18\/2019 Reuters<\/h4>\n
\nhttps:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/juul-ecigarettes-fda-sidebar-idINKBN1YM1D5<\/a><\/p>\nKingston, Hudson<\/h3>\n
PRESENTATION: 12\/3\/2019 \u201cPreemption of Local Authority To Regulate Commercial Tobacco Products\u201d<\/h4>\n
\nPRESENTATION: 12\/4\/2019 \u201cEnvironmental Impact of Tobacco\u201d<\/h4>\n
Larson, David<\/h3>\n
PRESENTATION: 12\/4\/2019 “I. Strategies for Court-Integrated ODR Design (and) II. Digital Accessibility for Persons with Disabilities.”<\/h4>\n
\nINVITATION: 12\/31\/2019 University of Texas School of Law<\/h4>\n
Phelps, Natasha<\/h3>\n
PRESENTATION: 12\/19\/2019 \u201cSuing Juul: Lawsuits Filed by Minnesota and Other States\u201d<\/h4>\n
Pope, Thaddeus<\/h3>\n
PRESENTATION: 12\/3\/2019 “Minnesota End of Life Options Act”<\/h4>\n
\nMEDIA: 12\/23\/2019 Kaiser Health News<\/h4>\n
\nhttps:\/\/khn.org\/news\/texas-law-highlights-dilemma-over-care-for-patients-with-no-hope-of-survival\/<\/a><\/p>\n\nPUBLICATION: 12\/24\/2019 Annals of Internal Medicine<\/h4>\n
\nhttps:\/\/annals.org\/aim\/article-abstract\/2758033\/s-time-revise-uniform-determination-death-act?searchresult=1<\/a><\/p>\n\nPUBLICATION: 12\/31\/2019 Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics<\/h4>\n
\nPUBLICATION: 12\/31\/2019 Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) PS-Net<\/h4>\n