Members of the Sports & Entertainment Law (“SEL”) section found the following recent third party articles to be of potential interest to the section. Feel free to reach out to the SEL section communications chairs (Kelly Ryan and Amanda Whorton) if you would like to submit either personally written pieces or other third party articles found that would be of interest to the entire SEL section members.
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Members of the Administrative Law Section found the following recent third party articles to be interesting. Remember—if it says subscription required, your legal research provider may provide access.
Helpful School of Government Blog COVID-19 Related Posts if you represent governments or their employees
The posts listed below may be useful if you represent government agencies, boards and commissions or their employees or if you want to be able to answer questions people raise:
This blog post expands on an earlier post by Frayd Bluestein regarding meetings and public hearings during the COVID-19 crisis. It specifically address the lawfulness of local government prohibitions on public in-person attendance at public meetings. The article’s preface says that the author aims “to supplement her comments on in-person attendance bans by looking at the relevant case law in light of events of the past few days.”
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As everyone knows by now, we have been ordered to stay at home until April 31, 2020 (and let’s hope it ends there). So, what does that mean for your fitness and wellness?
We have an answer for you: the fitness world and your wellness aren’t going away. At SweatNET, we’re doing our part to make sure you can have the same (or close to the same) fitness experience that you grew to love at your favorite studio. How?
Well, we are helping the amazing instructors and studios in the greater Charlotte community to make sure their workouts are delivered to YOU. So, while everyone is stuck at home right now, we have made it easier for you to find all of the virtual class offerings hosted directly by your favorite studios, gyms, and instructors (not just our own streaming content). Live now on the website is a dashboard of all of the classes offered by the instructors in our amazing fitness community. From Barre to Crossfit to kids yoga, there’s something for everyone while at home. This is the perfect chance to try something new and stay connected until we can all meet in person again! Let’s continue to support our favorite instructors, studios, and workouts.
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By Ben Baldwin Chair of the NCBA Business Law Section
Dear Members of the Business Law Section:
Yesterday (Wednesday April 1, 2020) Governor Roy Cooper issued Executive Order 125 (“Authorizing and Encouraging Remote Shareholder Meetings During the COVID-19 State of Emergency”).
The Order, which is limited in effect to corporations holding shareholder meetings under the North Carolina Business Corporation Act (the “Act”), is intended to facilitate the holding of shareholder meetings against the backdrop of the Governor’s prior Executive Orders (and various municipal orders) limiting mass gatherings during the COVID-19 crisis.
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The past few weeks have been surreal. With the rising crisis of COVID-19, we’ve had to adapt and change every plan we’ve had for the Family Law Section, our annual meeting, our CLE, and much of the business of the Association. We face the very real possibility that our practices and our lives will be damaged in ways that we can’t fully imagine.
In chaotic times, it helps me to focus on what I can do to help. We can all help in some way, and that’s what the leadership of the Family Law Section has endeavored to do.
At our last meeting of the Family Law Council, we voted to donate $5,000 of our Section funds to the Jane B. Weathers Lawyers Helping Lawyers Fund. This Fund was established upon the retirement of a long-time association staff member, Jane Weathers, to provide grants to lawyers experiencing financial hardship due to unforeseen difficult circumstances. Be it medical, personal, or professional challenges, the Fund is there to help.
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As a way to stay connected and highlight your wellness while isolated under the state’s Stay at Home Order, from April 1 through May 3, the NCBA YLD is inviting all young lawyers to upload their wellness-related activities through Strava, an app designed to connect and track exercises using GPS data. Strava is completely free with no advertising in its mobile application. Here’s how you can join in the fun:
The activities can be anything: walking, running, cycling, high-intensity interval training workouts, CrossFit, yoga, or whatever it is you like to do. Be sure to sync your watch or other fitness wearable with the Strava app on your phone so your workouts or activities will automatically upload. No manual upload is needed!
With coronavirus infections multiplying exponentially around the globe, countries, states, and localities are taking action to slow the spread. This update does not attempt to recount all that has changed since my last post. In particular, I do not catalogue all the state and local stay-at-home orders that have been enacted—though the North Carolina Judicial Branch’s COVID-19 Resource Page appears to have aggregated them all. Rather, I focus just on recent developments involving North Carolina state and federal courts and of particular interest to criminal justice practitioners.
[Note: This post was updated on April 3, 2020, as reflected below.]
NC State Courts
As reported earlier, Chief Justice Cheri Beasley previously entered an order extending filing deadlines and certain limitations periods in the trial courts through April 17, 2020. After some initial debate about whether Justice Beasley’s order applied in the Business Court, Chief Business Court Judge Louis Bledsoe answered that question in the affirmative, by order entered May 23. There was no doubt that Justice Beasley’s March 19 order did not apply to filings due in the appellate courts. Late last week, however, Justice Beasley entered another order extending all appellate court deadlines that fall between March 27 and April 30, 2020, for 60 days. The March 27 order also encourages electronic filing and credits back secure-leave scheduled in April and May 2020.
The Coronavirus pandemic has caused an unprecedented halt to our otherwise healthy economy. Senate Republicans and Democrats, along with Secretary Mnuchin and the Trump administration, have been working since late last week on what they have referred to as the Phase III of the COVID-19 legislation, which is largely a stimulus bill to provide much needed liquidity to both large and small businesses, as well as individuals, to assist in bridging the financial gap anticipated by this economic halt.
The Senate passed the stimulus bill, H.R. 748, the “Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act” or the “CARES Act” on the evening of March 25, the House passed the bill on March 27 and it was signed by President Trump into law the same day.
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The coronavirus has turned all of our lives upside down in the past two weeks. Who would have dreamed that we would be required to work from home, courts would be operating on a drastically reduced schedule, the NCAA Tournament and the Summer Olympics would be cancelled, and toilet paper would become more valuable than most stocks? (I don’t even want to look at my 401K plan right now!)
While we are waiting for the world to go back to “normal,” I have been pondering what all of this disruption means for insurance claims. Initially, there may be little increased claims activity as businesses focus on how to react to the ever-changing economic climate and try to keep their employees healthy. However, after the threat of the virus is diminished and business stabilizes, many companies will step back and gauge the real impact on their bottom line and ask the question: “Do I have insurance to cover this?” The answer is “maybe,” based on the type of policies purchased before the virus and the terms of each policy. However, if you’re trying to find coverage, here are some places to look:
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Last week, NCBA Litigation Section members provided an overview of court closures and deadline extensions due to COVID-19. This post is to provide an update, as well as to highlight resources that have become available to practitioners and the public.
Trial Courts
On Friday March 13, 2020, Chief Justice Cheri Beasley of the Supreme Court of North Carolina entered an order continuing most District and Superior Court hearings and trials which were scheduled to take place between March 16, 2020 and April 16, 2020. On March 19, 2020, the Chief Justice issued a second order affecting most filings and acts which were due to be filed or done from March 16, 2010 through April 17, 2020. These orders removed the affected hearings or trials from court calendars and extended all deadlines for filings and other actions (which we believe includes, but is not limited to items such as discovery) through April 17, 2020. On March 23, 2020, Chief Judge Louis Bledsoe of the North Carolina Business Court entered an administrative order formally stating that the Chief Justice’s March 19, 2020 order also applies to all matters pending in front of Business Court Judges.
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