When Miles Allen gives his press conference he mentions the name Henrietta Lacks. She was an African American woman who had cancer. Her cancer was biopsied and used without her or her families consent. It is considered the first immortalized human cell line. The family did not know that her genes were used until 1975 almost a quarter century after she died. There was a book written about her called The Immortal life of Henrietta Lacks.
In this episode, Patrick Duffy plays an activist rallying against the interests of "Big Oil". In Dallas (1978), he ran and was a part of a "Big Oil Dynasty". In the trade, or "the biz", the practice is known as "playing against type".
John Billingsley played a similar role of a Doctor accused of biased tendencies, especially against a pregnant African-American woman, short of being prosecuted, in If Not Now, When? (2019).
Graham Patrick Martin (Jeremy Moore) and Tony Denison (Vic Callan) were in producer Gil Garcetti other show's The Closer (2005) and Major Crimes (2012).
Episode title seems to be a variation of a play called "What the Constitution Means to Me " by Heidi Schreck.