Annual Constitutional Law Symposium 2025

  • OnDemand seminar
  • Civil Rights and Constitutional Law
Up to 6.0 Credit Hours
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Annual Constitutional Law Symposium 2025

Provisions, decisions, and divisions

From state redistricting fights to challenges over nationwide injunctions, constitutional disputes test the balance of power between branches of government and the limits of governmental authority over individuals. Recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings have altered laws, policies, and daily life in communities across the country. For attorneys, each ruling recalibrates strategies and advice to clients. Seeing the connection between these developments is crucial for anticipating the arguments they’ll invite.

High court highlights

The Annual Constitutional Law Symposium 2025 brings together leading practitioners to dissect the most consequential cases and trends shaping constitutional interpretation. You’ll hear analysis of both high-profile Supreme Court decisions and lesser-known rulings that are likely to influence litigation tactics, policymaking, and client counseling in the years ahead.

8:30 am
Buck v. Bell

Chad Baruch

  • History of the litigation
  • Historical analysis of the decision
  • Ongoing relevance to privacy cases
9:00 am
Justiciability and Strict Scrutiny of Voting Rights: Louisiana v. Callais

Ian Pitz or Matthew Kolodoski

  • History of voting rights and redistricting litigation
  • Lower court determinations on challenges to Louisiana congressional map
  • Supreme Court arguments and (perhaps) decision
9:50 am
Break
10:05 am
City of Grants Pass v. Johnson: Navigating Legal Shifts in the Evolving Judicial Landscape of Homelessness and Public Space

Grant C. Killoran

  • Judicial precedent addressing ordinances governing homelessness and the use of public property
  • The City of Grants Pass v. Johnson decision
  • The implications of the City of Grants Pass v. Johnson decision on local municipalities
  • The potential impact of the City of Grants Pass v. Johnson decision on college protest encampments
10:55 am
Executive Orders and the Constitutionality of Nationwide Injunctions

Chad Baruch and Ian Pitz

  • History and use of executive orders
  • Youngstown and judicial analysis of executive orders
  • Nationwide injunctions: arguments for and against
12:55 pm
U.S. Supreme Court Update

Chad Baruch, Grant C. Killoran, and Ian Pitz

  • Discussions of the Court’s key decisions from this term
  • Observations about trends, both in voting patterns and results
  • The famed “shadow docket” and its effect this term
2:25 pm
Developments in Corporate Constitutional Rights

Matthew Kolodoski

  • Examination of early requirements for chartering corporations and changes over time, including the removal of a public purpose requirement
  • Provide a survey of constitutional rights that have been applied to corporations, including the Contracts Clause and the First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments
  • Consider the proposed constitutional amendments that seek to limit constitutional rights to natural persons only, which would remove all constitutional protections from corporations
2:55 pm
Program Concludes
11:55 pm
Lunch

Program Chairs and Presenters

Chad Baruch, Co-Chair
Johnston Tobey Baruch · Dallas, TX
Grant C. Killoran, Co-Chair
O'Neil Cannon · Milwaukee
Ian A.J. Pitz, Co-Chair
Michael Best & Friedrich LLP · Madison
Matthew Kolodoski
Thompson, Coe, Cousins & Irons LLP · Dallas, TX

  • Gain practical context for advising clients on real-time and emerging constitutional questions
  • Anticipate how shifts in precedent may influence government policies and enforcement
  • Stay on top of constitutional developments affecting privacy, voting rights, and the use of public spaces
  • Hear perspectives on the current Supreme Court’s voting patterns, trends, and results
  • Assess the enforceability of executive actions and the likelihood of nationwide injunctions disrupting them
  • Discuss proposed amendments aimed at removing constitutional protections for corporations
  • Civil rights and liberties lawyers
  • Constitutional lawyers
  • Appellate practitioners
  • Criminal law practitioners
  • Government lawyers
  • Public interest lawyers
  • Corporate lawyers

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