I’m thinking about my Jewish friends & colleagues as you face this day. Wishing you peace, comfort & the joy of time w/ family as you celebrate Hanukkah at this difficult time.

This is why nearly every story you read about wins regarding UCLA were lawsuits brought by the faculty

Love to see the chronicle and propublica come together (hate the topic)

The Supreme Court just set aside a 2nd Circuit decision upholding New York's requirement that all school students, public and private, obtain certain vaccinations, without any religious exemptions. It orders the 2nd Circuit to reconsider the ruling in light of SCOTUS' LGBTQ school books decision.

Hats off to PBS for the appropriate title on this panel: "WATCH LIVE: RFK Jr.’s CDC panel to debate whether newborns should get lifesaving hepatitis B shot" www.youtube.com/live/Fdk_-WF...

If only someone had spent the last decade writing about unreasonable demands for proof of causation as a key component in the #ManufactureOfDoubt. muse.jhu.edu/article/627259

Congratulations to the CMS career staff for completing the negotiations for the 2027 cycle of the Medicare drug price negotiation program - the negotiated prices are now public. More later, but for now one note on attempts to compare these savings to the 2026 savings. 1/2 www.cms.gov/files/docume...

NYC Mayor-Elect @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social announces 17 transition committees and >400 appointees. Fantastic to see some brilliant names on the Health Committee, inc former NYC health cmssnr Mary Bassett, the inimitable @drdemetre.bsky.social & @tahiramin.bsky.social from @imakglobal.bsky.social

“Fewer than 1/4 of U.S. physicians are members of the AMA. Its financial stability now depends mostly on [licensing fees for AMA-created billing codes]. Financial dependence on a single, government-supported revenue stream leaves the AMA highly vulnerable to political pressure.”

I’m so excited to get my hands on this important new book from Jamila Porter & Aysha Dominguez Pamukcu! It comes with a free downloadable coloring book of inspiring illustrations! Out of stock at Amazon at the moment, but still available from APHA www.movementpraxis.org/advancingequ...

I mean, the first paragraph lays it all out. The President, VP, and Agency officials, including the head of the Task Force to Combat Antisemitism, told us exactly what they intended to do & then did, which was use pretextual civil rights claims to impose ideological control on universities.

On the blog: In approving Trump's transphobic policy of listing sex assigned at birth on passports, SCOTUS said govt was "merely attesting to a historical fact," thus echoing the obtuseness of Plessy v Ferguson's statement that Black folks were only choosing to see segregation as white supremacy. 👇

That's @fishkin.bsky.social (a must-follow on this site)

The Illinois legislature had passed the “Illinois Bivens Act,” allowing people to sue ICE agents in state court. Just waiting for Pritzker’s signature. dailynorthwestern.com/2025/11/03/c...

BREAKING: Federal judge rules that the Trump administration likely illegally suspended SNAP benefits, ruling that at least reduced distribution is required to go forward under law using the $6 billion reserve fund. Judge gives the Trump admin until Monday to respond as to whether it will act.

Good News that sounds like bad news: The District of Hawaii just found the FDA's 2023 mifepristone REMS modification unlawful and arbitrary & capricious! It's good news b/c the case was brought by medical orgs & docs arguing that FDA failed to justify why it kept strict & unnecessary REMS elements.

1. This will be a forced labor camp; 2. Utah is already planning to make it easier to commit people to it.

I see we’ve entered the “don’t worry, we have a magical Obamacare alternative” stage of the debate www.thebulwark.com/p/the-republ...

It took over 4 years, but the paper is finally published. In this study, we developed novel methods drawn from #LegalEpidemiology to map addiction #stigma in California law. This #interdisciplinary work was conceptually and methodologically difficult!⤵️ #PaperSky #EpiSky #AcademicSky 1/

Curious what the 4th Circuit's opinion in GenBioPro v. Raynes means for state mifepristone regulation? Check out my new piece with @pzettler.bsky.social & Lewis Grossman in JAMA. We argue that preemption arguments are not dead, even though the court upheld WVA's abortion ban. 1/2

I am just thrilled to have my new article Third-Party Accommodations officially out @michlawreview.bsky.social! The MLR editors were a pleasure to work with and sharing the same volume as @kovarsky.bsky.social & Daniel Fryer is the cherry on top. Read it: repository.law.umich.edu/mlr/vol124/i...

Interesting. Wisc PP gave up its “essential community provider" designation and no longer fits the definition of “prohibited entity” and can continue to see Medicaid patients

The destruction of #ACIP and its critical role in advising on the use of vaccines in the United States continues. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The UC Regents finally released the “settlement agreement” the Trump administration proposed in August. It’s a doozy. UC alumni, faculty, staff, students, parents, donors—and all citizens of California: Now is the time to let the UC Regents know you do not want them to sign this bad deal.

Not only is it harmful, dishonest & unethical, in many cases it may also be illegal, as Craig Konnoth argues here: www.uclalawreview.org/11626-2/

“I was with you, until you said ‘pregnant people.’” I get this a lot. I’m an abortion provider, and the CEO and President of an org known for abortion advocacy. Let’s talk about why I use inclusive language — and why I’m not stopping. 🧵

New publication from me: Henry T. Greely, Depopulation Hysteria, U.C. Davis On Line Law Review, 59:117-136 (Oct. 2025). I argue that the increasing drumbeat of concern about falling human populations is somewhat exaggerated but also threatens women's rights. lawreview.law.ucdavis.edu/archives/59/...

Amazing sign being held by a small child

Wow - California's public insulin will be on the market in Jan! Big milestone for public pharma efforts. Could help millions of diabetics, esp if they can build a more public supply chain too. We describe why public pharma is important in this paper ... www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

“The declaration cites pressures on the county’s already-overcrowded detention centers as a result of an estimated 200% increase in daily arrests made by a state-federal partnership that has brought hundreds of outside law enforcement personnel, including the Tennessee National Guard, to the city.”

Nobody can know everything, let alone everything by their own research. We always rely on experts to navigate our complex world. The question is whether we pick credentialed and experienced people or internet demagogues and grifters.

Wow. NHANES js incredibly for population health surveillance, and is nationally representative as well. What a loss.

“Rent relief for tenants who have fallen behind as a result of the ICE raids and money for legal aid and other services are among the provisions in the declaration.”

Reshma Ramachandran “said the sequence of events is the antithesis of how the FDA is supposed to function. “What we’re seeing here is, ‘We believe this and we’re going to find the evidence to support that’ …That’s just inherently wrong in terms of how a scientific agency like the FDA operates.”

“It seems like they just took a sledgehammer to the agency versus a scalpel,” said @drdebhoury.bsky.social. She believes the unRIFed jobs may have been reinstated after public outcry. HHS did not provide documentation of an error by press time. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The end of federal enforcement of special ed laws. Some states - including MN - will likely be ok. But a lot of disabled kids in a lot of states are going to lose the education that federal law and decades of jurisprudence say they are owed.

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.” Among those RIFd: —leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases; —leadership of global health center —leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

John Thune is nervous. He just spread a bunch of lies on @pbsnewshour but I noticed one thing in particular: He reassured the audience that the underlying structure of ACA would be intact. He's lying. But I don't think I've heard a Republican make a promise about ACA like that before. Have you?

Thread. In short, after 15 years, t he ACA has joined Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security as a bedrock law of the land they have to pretend to care about. They’re still trying to gut it of course, but they can no longer pretend it’s a temporary anomaly.

The first Law Dork oral argument report of the new Supreme Court term is a doozy: Chiles v. Salazar, over Colorado’s conversion therapy ban.

Please to share the final, citable version of my latest article, The Existential Challenge to the Administrative State, forthcoming in the Georgetown Law Journal. Written mostly before Trump's second term, the paper critiques and responds to the case law that has enabled the current conflagration.

I thought I'd put the administration's proposed "compact" with universities in context, so I wrote the blog post below. It's especially for journalists covering this story! Many details about how the compact itself works and why the administration has retreated to this strategy.

Strong statement today from UC's Academic Senate:

Note that the Trump administration is illegally depriving food banks of supplies *after* they and their cronies in Congress slashed SNAP by $186 billion. Objectively a pro-hunger administration. www.urban.org/urban-wire/s...

“No self-respecting university could ever accept something like this,” said Lee Bollinger, a First Amendment scholar and former Columbia University president. “Trying to protect conservative ideas against being ‘belittled’ — that’s about as violative of the First Amendment interests as you can get.”

Thrilled that HLPP is hosting Risk and Resistance on Oct 3! Honored to celebrate @azizaahmed.bsky.social’s groundbreaking book and so grateful to our amazing co-sponsors, speakers, and panelists who will make this such an inspiring event. #RiskandResistance #healthlaw