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New Orleans – June 16, 2021: Voice of the Experienced (VOTE), a Louisiana-based grassroots organization founded and run by formerly incarcerated people, and Advancement Project, a next-generation, multi-racial civil rights organization, along with Crowell & Moring LLP, celebrated the enactment of Act 127 – H.B. 378 in Louisiana, which was signed into law on June 10, 2021. The bill will ensure that individuals sentenced only to probation will not lose their voting rights due to a felony conviction, and will prevent government officials from expending unnecessary resources to suspend voting rights, and then having to work to restore them for people who should not have been suspended from voter rolls in the first place. More than 30,000 people are currently estimated to be on probation in Louisiana, and the new law will help additional people each year as new individuals are sentenced to probation.

Washington – October 10, 2019 – Forbes magazine listedCrowell & Moring as one of the “Top Corporate Law Firms in America."

San Francisco – April 11, 2019: A. Marisa Chun, an experienced trial and appellate lawyer, has joined Crowell & Moring LLP’s San Francisco office as a partner in the firm’s Litigation Group. Chun’s practice focuses on commercial litigation, consumer class actions, and internal and government investigations, with significant emphasis on the technology, energy, and health care sectors.

On May 13, 2021, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) revised its Interim Public Health Recommendations for Fully Vaccinated People.  Since the CDC’s April 27, 2021, guidance for vaccinated people, which Crowell & Moring summarized here, the CDC has loosened its recommendations for individuals who are fully vaccinated.  The key changes are that (1) fully vaccinated people no longer need to wear a mask or physically distance in any setting, except where required by federal, state, local, tribal, or territorial laws, rules, and regulations, including local business and workplace guidance; and (2) fully vaccinated people need not take a COVID test following a known exposure, unless they are residents or employees of a correctional or detention facility or a homeless shelter.

Retail tenants are experiencing unprecedented difficulties stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic, including government shutdown orders for non-essential businesses and shelter-in-place rules that have virtually stopped all in-person shopping. Even as these restrictions are finally being relaxed to a limited degree, the dramatic effects of the pandemic will long be felt in the retail industry. This alert addresses just one of the consequences in the wake of COVID-19: the expected rise in bankruptcy filings by commercial landlords and, as a corollary, what retail tenants should do to protect their rights and seek available remedies when faced with a landlord’s bankruptcy.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has updated its guidance for implementing the President’s Plan for Opening America Up Again. The 60 page guidance outlines the initiatives, activities, and tools that the CDC has developed to support the Government’s response to the spread of COVID-19, and incorporates the six decision tools (flowcharts to guide re-opening that were released on May 14, 2020). The guidance covers medical surveillance by CDC and other public health authorities(Appendix A and B), infection control and contact tracing initiatives (Appendix C), test usage (Appendix D), and a summary of surveillance and hospital gating indicators public health and government officials should use “to aid their decisions when to reopen communities” (Appendix E). Within these appendices are numerous links to related CDC guidance for various public health initiatives.

Michael Kahn, Gregory Call, Thomas Koegel are several of the speakers at this conference. The topic is "Litigation Strategy: Plaintiff’s Practice in Bankruptcy Estates."