Several recent cases concern challenges to executive orders relating to COVID-19 limiting the ability of churches to assemble and imposing other limitations. Beginning with appellate decisions, these cases are summarized in...more
This eighth edition of Unprecedented, our weekly update on COVID-19-related litigation, follows what we hope was a restful and meaningful Memorial Day weekend. For the third week in a row, shutdown challenges, workers'...more
On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared the rapidly spreading coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19 or the “coronavirus”) a pandemic, acknowledging that the virus posed a worldwide threat. The coronavirus...more
On March 29, 2020, Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak executed an emergency directive implementing a statewide moratorium (“Moratorium Directive”) on evictions and foreclosures relating to residential and commercial property. This...more