by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Jul 24, 2020 | Blog, Covid-19 Articles
As the nation’s struggle to contain COVID-19 continues into the latter half of 2020, Congress is considering a second major stimulus package to stem the flow of financial (and human) suffering across the sinking economy. The first stimulus package—the CARES Act—was...
by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Aug 6, 2020 | Blog, Covid-19 Articles
On Friday the 13th of March, President Trump issued his “Proclamation on Declaring a National Emergency Concerning the Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Outbreak.” In the ensuing 4 ½ months Governors across the country have used executive orders to lockdown their...
by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Aug 28, 2020 | Blog, Covid-19 Articles
It’s become trendy to vilify landlords in the time of COVID-19, with calls for rent strikes and vocal critics accusing landlords of preying on those worst affected by the economic downturn. Of course, residential landlords often are making payments of their own...
by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Mar 27, 2020 | Blog, Covid-19 Articles
Many of us have heard the adage that “hard cases make bad law,” but a more apt description might be “emergencies create worse law.” In an emergency, we often expect our government to do something to help us. Sometimes, though, that something is worse than the...
by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Apr 2, 2020 | Blog, Covid-19 Articles, Kara Rollins
The ongoing national emergency is still too new and too fluid for any of us to glean much beyond the obvious—wash your hands, stay inside, and practice kindness and grace toward others. But that has not stopped prognosticators from discussing what a...
