Tom W Bell

October 22, 2020 | The Recorder

The California statute invoked by Gov. Gavin Newsom in support of his pandemic lockdown suffers the same flaws that doomed Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's reign-by-emergency order, says professor Tom W. Bell.

By Tom W. Bell

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September 10, 2020 | The Recorder

"If schools, faculty, and students do not resist, they risk losing not just their rights but their educational community," says Tom Bell, a professor at Chapman University Fowler School of Law.

By Tom W. Bell

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April 22, 2020 | The Recorder

If like tens of millions of Americans you have been trapped in your home by one of these COVID-19 lockdown orders, separated from loved ones and deprived of a livelihood, you might have wondered: Can your constitutional rights thus be negated without judicial review?

By Tom W. Bell

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