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Butte College campus bustles between classes on February 12, 2020. Photo by Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters ### Rarely are college bean-counters skeptical of receiving more money, but a plan to give California’s community college system hundreds of millions of dollars for faculty is dividing finance officials and professors. For college financial officials, the new money would come at an inopportune time: Enrollment plunged across the 116-college system by 11% last fall as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. With fewer students to teach, financial officers worry that committing $170 million...

May 27, 2021 at 5:30 PM Shares0 Sure, it’s not great that your Am Law 20 law firm represents Globetronics in a case about the legality of reclassifying factory workers as contractors to pay them $2/hour to dump oil directly into the Gulf of Mexico. But at least you’re not these folks! Yesterday, the Washington Post did a deep dive into the efforts of NY-based Siri Gilmstad, a law firm that’s billed millions to the cause of indulging anti-vaccination conspiracies. With a niche practice like that, it’s little surprise that the firm’s taken the lead in pushing back against COVID vaccin...

The legal salvos show that a groundswell against compulsory immunization is being coordinated, at least in part, from a law office on Park Avenue in midtown Manhattan. And they offer a window into a wide-ranging and well-resourced effort to contest vaccine requirements in workplaces and other settings critical to the country’s reopening.

A New York firm has filed suit or sent letters to employers in several states, part of an effort spearheaded by one of the largest anti-vaccination groups in the country.

Innovation in a Regulatory Labyrinth “Regulations don’t always work as planned,” says Tom W. Bell, Professor of Chapman University’s Dale E. Fowler School of Law in  They Say It Can’t Be Done, a documentary [1] highlighting four world-changing technologies and how the people working in those fields view the current regulatory environment. Toward the start of the film, Professor Bell says that when people advocate for regulations, “[t]hey don’t necessarily want more regulations. They want problems fixed.” However, “regulations don’t always work as planned” and can be �...