ACS Member News: Week of March 30, 2020

ACS Board of Directors member Erwin Chemerinsky authored an op-ed in The Fresno Bee about the legality of stay-at-home orders being used to stem the COVID-19 pandemic.

ACS Board of Academic Advisors member Joseph Fishkin authored an article in The Washington Post about Adam Cohen’s new book “Supreme Inequality: The Supreme Court’s Fifty-Year Battle for a More Unjust America” and how the conservative control of the Court has increased inequality.

ACS Faculty Advisor at the University of Illinois College of Law Vikram David Amar authored an article in Verdict about the constitutionality of national responses to combat the COVID-19 pandemic.

ACS Chicago Lawyer Chapter Co-Chair Dan Cotter wrote in the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin about the Supreme Court posting their latest decisions online.

ACS member Rachel Bloomekatz successfully litigated Gabbard v. Madison Local School Dist. Bd. of Edn. in the Ohio Appellate Court.

ACS member Michele Goodwin was quoted in Bloomberg about states using the COVID-19 pandemic to restrict abortion access.

ACS member Wilfred Codrington authored an article in the Columbia Law Review about the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact as an alternative to the Electoral College to elect a president.