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02682aam a2200349 i 4500 001 58993BD0CD6211EE9507C16149ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240217010049 008 230919s2023 pau b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 1512824836 020 $a 9781512824834 035 $a (OCoLC)1398235664 040 $a MUB $b eng $e rda $c MUB $d MUB $d YDX $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- 050 4 $a RA644.C67 $b S74 2023 100 1 $a Sterett, Susan Marie, $e author. 245 10 $a Litigating the pandemic : $b disaster cascades in court / $c Susan M. Sterett. 264 1 $a Philadelphia : $b University of Pennsylvania Press, $c [2023] 300 $a 216 pages ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Critical studies in risk and disaster 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 00 $t Appendix: a note on data and methods $t Democratic backsliding and litigation -- $t Courts, meaning, and instrumental effectiveness -- $t Tsunamis, explosions, and misdirecting metaphors -- $t Government authority, civil liberties, and mass incarceration -- $t Conclusion: courts and accepting loss in a pandemic -- $t Appendix: a note on data and methods 520 $a "As officials scrambled in 2020 to manage the spread of COVID, the reverberations of the crisis reached well beyond immediate public health concerns. The governance problems that emerged in the pandemic would be problems in other climate-related disasters, too. The United States, like other countries, governs partly through litigation, and litigation is one way of seeing the multiple governance failures during the pandemic. Drawing on databases of cases filed, news reports, and the websites of advocacy groups and law firms, Susan M. Sterett argues that governing during the pandemic, or in any disaster, must include the human institutions intertwined with the effects of the virus. Those institutions reveal problems well beyond the reach of technical expertise. Failures in private insurance as a way of governing risk, conflicts about the primacy of religion, government authority, and health, are problems that predated the pandemic and will persist in future disasters."--back cover. 650 0 $a COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- $x Law and legislation $z United States. 650 0 $a COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- $x Political aspects $z United States. 650 0 $a COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- $x Government policy $z United States. 650 0 $a Disasters $x Law and legislation $z United States. 650 0 $a Disasters $x Political aspects $z United States. 830 0 $a Critical studies in risk and disaster 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20240217011941.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=58993BD0CD6211EE9507C16149ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search