[2025 NLC] Showcase Panel 4: Science in the Courts After COVID and Skrmetti

Nov 25, 2025
1h 10m

Episode Description

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
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