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At a time when state police power has imposed unprecedented limitations on individuals’ ability to provide for themselves in dignity, Lochner should be brought out of lockdown.

The COVID-19 crisis vividly demonstrated that Americans rely on certain for-profit corporations to supply the essentials of everyday life. Even in a crisis situation in which the government had assumed an extraordinary role and extraordinary responsibilities, it was deemed necessary for workers handling “essential” tasks to risk infection to continue their work at private companies.

As COVID-19 continues to disrupt the workplace, legal analysts struggle to predict how infected laborers’ claims will fare in workers’ compensation systems. Workers’ compensation systems vary across states, but their purpose is the same—to give employees who are injured through the everyday completion of their jobs access to sure-fire compensation.

This Article discusses how the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois has responded to the virus, with a particular emphasis on jury trials. I close by offering some reflections on how the pandemic might change the ways that courts will operate in the future.

This Comment analyzes how courts have applied Anderson-Burdick to pandemic-related ballot access cases. It focuses on one troubling pattern in COVID-19 ballot access litigation: cases in which courts applying Anderson-Burdick fault plain-tiffs for not being reasonably diligent in collecting signatures prior to or during a shelter-in-place order.

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.