The DPA: A Marshall Plan for Public Health with Judge James Baker

The black letter law and articles in this episode are: The Defense Production Act [PDF] https://www.fema.gov/media-library-data/20130726-1650-20490-5258/final__defense_production_act_091030.pdf James E. Baker “It’s High Time We Fought This Virus the American Way” New York Times, April 3, 2020 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/03/opinion/defense-protection-act-covid.html Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company v. Sawyer 343 US 579 (1952) https://www.oyez.org/cases/1940-1955/343us579 Executive Order on Prioritizing and Allocating Health and Medical Resources to Respond to the Spread of Covid-19 https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-prioritizing-allocating-health-medical-resources-respond-spread-covid-19/ 42 U.S. Code § 247d on Public Health Emergencies https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/247d “Government Contractor Defense: Military and Non-Military Applications” ABA Section on Litigation https://www.americanbar.org/groups/litigation/committees/products-liability/practice/2016/gvt-contractor-defense-military-non-military-applications/ Judge James Baker is the Director of the Syracuse University Institute for Security Policy and Law http://law.syr.edu/profile/the-hon.-james-e.-baker