IMLA

Disaster Webinar
2021-07-20 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York)
COVID-19 Litigation: Public Health Orders, Enforcement Challenges and Related First Amendment Challenges
Cities, counties, and health officials across the country are facing a rapidly escalating number of lawsuits that challenge public health orders, enforcement issues and First Amendment challenges related to COVID-19. In this webinar, Deborah Fox, Chair of Meyers Nave’s Trial and Litigation Practice and First Amendment Practice, will explain the legal issues that are involved in these litigations, including complex constitutional questions regarding local and state governmental powers during public health and safety emergencies intertwined with alleged violations of various rights under the U.S. Constitution, ranging from First Amendment freedoms of expression, religion and assembly to civil rights claims for alleged violations of the due process and equal protection clauses to economic claims under the takings and commerce clauses.
Speaker: Deborah Fox & Margaret (Meg) Rosequist

Securities Webinar
2021-07-22 13:00 - 14:00
The Municipality as Shareholder: Securities Litigation in the Age of Fiscal and Social Responsibility
Securities litigation is often viewed as benefiting individual shareholders who have been harmed due to misstatements, omissions, negligence, or intentional acts of public companies. But the reality is that millions of others participate in the capital markets as employees of municipalities and local government subdivisions—counties, cities, townships, school districts, fire and police departments and more—who act on behalf of these workers as shareholders in publicly traded entities through pension plans, risk management pools and similar vehicles. This presentation will discuss how these entities can add and have added their influence to obtain recourse for corporate wrongdoing and to effect socially responsible change in corporate policies in areas ranging from gender and race discrimination, systemic racial and gender inequality, Covid, the opioid epidemic, environmental wrongdoing, money laundering and more.
Speaker: Joshua H. Grabar & Seth D. Rigrodsky

First Amendment Webinar
2021-07-27 13:00 - 14:00
Dos and Don’ts For Advertising On Buses And Other Municipal Owned Property
This webinar will examine First Amendment jurisprudence as it applies to advertising on buses and other municipally owned property including bus stops, street furniture, subways, and airports. The webinar will provide practical pointers for drafting constitutionally sound regulations for advertising on such municipally owned property. While the First Amendment usually requires that non-commercial speech be treated more favorably than commercial speech, the reverse is often true when looking at regulations for advertising on buses and other municipally owned property. Forum analysis plays a critical role in determining what restrictions will pass muster as does the consistency with which policies are followed and enforced. These issues along with applicable case law will be highlighted during the webinar.
Speaker: Margaret (Meg) Rosequist

Personnel Webinar
2021-07-29 13:00 - 14:00
What Labor & Employment Attorneys Should Understand About Human Resources!
Depending on the local government, the Human Resources Department may entail a variety of areas that need sound and practical advice from a Labor & Employment Attorney and knowing how to handle when the advice is not followed. In local government, Human Resources has to perform a balancing act – balancing what the City Manager/Mayor wants for the organization and being fair to the employees. There are other parties such as the elected officials (politicians) and the unions which bring another wrinkle on how Human Resources manages any situation. Remember HR is seen as both the good and the bad…hires and fires….and much more.
Speaker: Elsa I. Jaramillo-Velez & Roberta “Robin” Cross
