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This article examines Bey v. City of New York — a recent Second Circuit case where four Black firefights suffering from Pseudofolliculitis Barbae (a skin condition causing irritation when shaving which mostly affects Black men) challenged the New York City Fire Department's Clean Shave Policy — with an intersectional approach utilizing legal theories of racial, disability, and religious discrimination. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Although medical care delivery by one's personal physician is the paradigmatic American healthcare arrangement, in the workplace setting, many Americans undergo medical evaluations to assess their fitness for duty or degree of impairment. This Article explores the complex and evolving legal status of occupational medical evaluations. Beginning with the legal and ethical frameworks of occupational medical practice, the Article then examines the effects of increasingly detailed legal regulation under the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act on employees, employers, and physicians. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Information about several papers discussed at a symposium in South Carolina on the controversies and conundrums in mental health and illness are presented. Topics include cases on criminal responsibility, refusal of medication to avoid execution, and treatment of mental illness by force. The symposium featured the papers from Joseph Bloom, Melissa McDonnell and Robert Phillips, and Howard Zonana.