COVID-19 May Worsen the Opioid Crisis
The rapid and unprecedented spread of the novel coronavirus has revealed massive gaps in our nation’s public health and support infrastructure, and some of the most vulnerable patients are those who are already fighting another epidemic: opioi
Supreme Court Refuses to Stop Order to Move Inmates From Virus-Ravaged Prison
Written by: Phillip E. Friduss, Esq. Thus is the title of Adam Liptak’s New York Times coverage of the Ohio inmate transfer case, Williams v Wilson case we reported on last week. The piece begins: “The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused a req
An Unprecedented Time: Decarcerating and other Steps Being Taken in Georgia’s Jails and Prisons as the Result of COVID-19
Written by: Jennifer Dorminey Herzog, Esq. Because of policies of mass incarceration over the past four decades, the United States has incarcerated more people than any other country on Earth.[1] Highly transmissible novel respiratory pathogen
Dutch Court Goes Too Far In Enforcing Privacy Regulation
Written by: Richard Sheinis, Esq. A Dutch court has ruled that a grandmother is violating the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation by posting photographs of her grandchildren on her social media account without the consent of the children
Relief for Commercial Landlords or Tenants in the Federal CARES Act?
Written by: Matthew Haan, Esq. In response to the hardship being felt by millions of Americans caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, Congress passed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act. The Act contains a number of provisio
COVID-19 in Jails and Prisons – US Supreme Court Asked to Stay Ohio Injunction Requiring Transfer of Inmates
Written by: Phillip E. Friduss, Esq. There have now been any number of COVID-related challenges to the conditions of confinement in jails/prisons nationwide, especially with respect to the elderly inmate population. Two weeks ago we reported o
Do Opioid Patients Face Higher Risk During COVID-19 Treatment?
Learn more about our Opioid Task Force here. People struggling with opioid use disorder (OUD) and methamphetamine use may encounter more serious risks if they develop COVID-19 because of the way those drugs already affect their respiratory and p
Washington D.C. Amends Data Breach Notification Statute
Written by: Charles R. Langhorne IV, Esq. Washington D.C. amended its data breach notification statute at the end of March. The new law is set to take effect by June 13, 2020. This is the first update to the law since it was passed in 2007. Pers
COVID-19 And Workers’ Compensation Liability Policy Coverage
Written by: Rayford Taylor, Esq. It has been suggested that if an employee cannot obtain workers’ compensation benefits because of COVID-19, that employee might sue the employer under the employer’s liability portion of a workers&#
HHS Reduces Enforcement of HIPAA Violations for COVID-19 Community Based Testing Sites
Written by: Brett Lawrence, Esq. On April 14, 2020, The Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) Office of Civil Rights (“OCR”) announced it will exercise further enforcement discretion in easing back penalties f