Florida to Disabled Kids: Drop Dead (or at least wait 75 days)

Over the last month, I’ve been tracking a collection of lawsuits applying disability civil rights laws to mask mandates, specifically to overturn BANS on mask mandates as violating IDEA, ADA, and Section 504 in various ways. The differences matter for many reasons, but in part because IDEA has an “exhaustion” rule intended to preclude disabled … Continue ReadingFlorida to Disabled Kids: Drop Dead (or at least wait 75 days)

We Need Vaccine Mandates

If we’re going to achieve herd immunity against Covid-19 in all its variants, it’s becoming increasingly clear that we’ll need to impose vaccine mandates. But the details matter. I argue we should use existing systems that already mandate other vaccines, rather than trying to create new ones. In a few weeks I’ll be required to … Continue ReadingWe Need Vaccine Mandates