Bird Flu
New Bench Book helps judges make speedy decisions about pressing public health cases
Published in Law and Health Weekly, March 31st, 2007
What if there was an outbreak of avian flu in Pennsylvania and public health officials had to institute quarantines to stop the spread of the deadly disease' How would the state’s courts respond if someone resisted or challenged a quarantine in court, particularly since no Pennsylvania case law, statute or court ruling has ever established specifically who can petition a court to institute a quarantine or what procedures to follow to do so'
These are just a few of the critically important questions on the minds of people who plan for events such as a pandemic or a bioterrorist attack. To give judges and their legal staff some guidance on cases like this and many other...
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