This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Monday, September 26,

2022. I'm Caleb Brown. Earlier this year, the Supreme Court laid down two

opinions related to federal mandates in the wake of the COVID-19

pandemic.

One was a sweeping employer vaccine or test mandate.

The other aimed at hospitals that

receive certain kinds of federal funding.

Cato Institute adjunct scholar Ilia Soman

evaluated the cases and explained

where he thinks the court got it right and got it wrong at the Constitution Day event

held last week. Thank you so much. Thank you to Will for moderating the panel

and Trevor for organizing this exciting event,

continuing the theme of ties to the Pacific Legal Foundation.

My wife, Allison, who will be here later today,

actually works for

PLF, so we have that going on. But my job here today is not to talk about

PLF's important work or even to talk about Dungeons and Dragons,

though I expect they talk about D&D

might actually be more interesting to at least some of the audience.

Rather, my purpose is to talk about the two vaccine mandate cases

that the Supreme Court decided back in January.

And at the time, they were, as President Biden

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