Ani B. Satz

In June, the U.S. Supreme Court decided California v. Texas, the fifth Affordable Care Act (ACA) case to reach the court since the Act’s passage in 2010. California v. Texas asserted that the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 rendered the ACA unconstitutional by amending it. The Supreme Court rejected the case on standing grounds.

COVID vaccinations are currently being administered under emergency conditions to quell a worldwide pandemic. But going forward, could employers or schools require proof of vaccination? " I think there would be some legal risk to an employer that chose to make a vaccine mandatory," Emory Law Professor Ani Satz tells Fox 5 Atlanta. "But I think there's some legal arguments to support that choice."

USDA inspection reports were widely used by consumers for people finding pets online, until a few years ago. They were taken off the agency's public website shortly after President Trump took office, ABC News reports in a story about buying pets online. Emory Law Professor Ani Satz says those reports and violations were previously used to remove animals from bad situations. "In the big picture protections for animals are woefully inadequate in this context and by taking these reports away they're taking away the one tool that people who believe in upholding the law have to protect these animals," Satz said.

US Senator Cory Booker contacted Emory Law Professor Ani Satz to draft what would become the "Primate Protection and Research Modernization Act of 2018" after reading her opinion article on Volkswagen's primate experiments.

The diesel exhaust experiments Volkswagen performed with monkeys were cruel, but hardly unusual in the corporate world, Emory Law Professor Ani Satz writes for The Hill. "Corporate behavior that seeks to maximize profits outside ethical decision-making often involves fraud, environmental harm, and harm to humans and animals because it entails complete disregard for obligations to stakeholders other than shareholders," she writes.

"The US Department of Agriculture recently removed all government inspection reports of animal facilities from its website, abolishing transparency of businesses and universities using animals and severely undermining the ability to prevent even the most extreme animal abuse," Emory Law Professor Ani Satz writes for CNN. Some were reposted later, but "reducing public access to inspection reports undermines government accountability and animal protection."

In May, a federal judge ruled in favor of two warehouse employees who sued after being called into their supervisor's office and asked for saliva samples. The Fulton County case could set a legal precedent and tests a United States genetics law, WABE reports. Now, a trial is underway to determine a monetary award. Professor Ani Satz says that could be difficult because this type of case is new under the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act. "There's very little precedent for Judge Totenberg about how to assess damages, in fact I can't find any in our region," she says.

ag-gag' laws make it illegal to gather undercover documentation and videos of cruelty to animals at factory farms , but it is precisely this kind of reporting that exposes and can help stop abuse of animals.