On February 28, 2021, an employee of a county detention center filed suit in federal court in New Mexico seeking an injunction to prevent the employee from being fired for refusing to get a COVID-19 vaccine on the basis that the vaccines have only been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) under an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) and cannot be mandated by employers under the EUA law. The case is Isaac Legaretta,…

On February 25, 2021, the House Subcommittee on Investor Protection, Entrepreneurship, and Capital Markets held a hearing entitled, “Climate Change and Social Responsibility: Helping Corporate Boards and Investors Make Decisions for a Sustainable World.”  The hearing invited panelists, including James Andrus, an investment manager for the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS), to discuss a variety of topics, including environmental, social, and governance (ESG) disclosures involving diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) metrics, as well as…