[2025 NLC] Showcase Panel 4: Science in the Courts After COVID and Skrmetti
CLE credit for this event is available at On-Demand CLE. From litigation challenging COVID regulations to the recent legal challenges to state laws regulating transgender surgery and medications to recent actions to reassess the EPA's "Endangerment Finding," important questions have emerged about how courts should evaluate scientific claims. What are the challenges “with appealing and deferring to the authority of the expert class,” as Justice Thomas wrote in his Skrmetti concurrence? What is the role of the judge and the jury in evaluating scientific claims made by the parties? Featuring: Mr. Benjamin M. Flowers, Partner, Ashbrook Byrne Kresge Flowers LLC Prof. Michael Gerrard, Professor, Columbia Law School; Faculty Director, Sabin Center for Climate Change Law Mr. Rob Johnson, Senior Attorney, Institute for Justice Mr. J.J. Snidow, Partner, Keller Postman LLP Moderator: Hon. Jennifer Mascott, United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit Introducer: Mr. David Haungs, President, Yale Student Chapter