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This Comment evaluates the extent to which the CARES Act Modifications sustainably balance individual privacy expectations with strong public interests in obtaining SUD records and integrated care. Moreover, it suggests avenues to fill gaps in protection for individuals with SUD after their information has been disclosed.

The pandemic has brought into sharp focus the mismatch between traditional rules that govern valid will executions, on the one hand, and contemporary restrictions, practices, and preferences, on the other. This essay enters the scholarly debate about the necessity of remote witnessing in a variety of situations, including a public health crisis.

As we know all too well, the COVID-19 pandemic caught the world off-guard. The virus continues to accumulate a staggering list of victims, but the direct threat to public health also carried with it shock waves that rocked the global economy.

In the spring of 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic shut down economies around the world, pressure arose for governments to respond to the growing threat of pandemic-related market distress. In addition to responding to the direct public health emergency, governments were expected to stabilize markets—both financial and economic—and provide relief to those harmed by the pandemic’s market effects.

That interstate travel within the United States is largely so uncontroversial reflects a simple fact: the right to travel “occupies a position fundamental to the concept of our Federal Union.” Yet in the aftermath of the COVID-19 outbreak, multiple states have restricted interstate travel.

The economic dislocation associated with the COVID-19 pandemic might have been reduced if pandemic insurance were widespread. Yet, outside of the All England Club, host of the Wimbledon Tennis Tournament, virtually no one held pandemic insurance.

This Comment will analyze deepfakes in the interpersonal con-text—specifically the use of technology to make deepfaked nonconsensual pornography. Because deepfake images and videos appear so real, the scale of potentially negative impact is especially alarming.

Absent from the docket, and flying under the public’s radar, was another, different form of abortion restriction: the reason-based abortion ban. This Comment will focus on the possible constitutional justifications for these laws and subsequently undermine them.

Ultimately, this Comment will argue that the embryoids created from iPSCs should not be considered embryos for purposes of federal law. Instead, their use in research should be subject only to state and federal cloning laws.

For inmates attempting bodily adornment, RLUIPA is too often a dead letter.

Prisons at both the state and federal levels routinely deny or severely restrict access to menstrual supplies for those who need them. Detainees and prisoners alike are left to bleed onto their clothes and the floor of their cells.

Many women long to be mothers one day. Motherhood can take different forms; it can be adopting children, birthing biological children, or nurturing a stepchild, to name a few options. Some women who want biologically related children run a high risk of their children being born with an incurable disease, endangering their chance for biological children to lead healthy lives.