Program Chairs and Presenters:
Chad Baruch
Johnston Tobey Baruch
Dallas, TX
Grant C. Killoran
O'Neil, Cannon, Cannon, DeJong & Laing, S.C.
Milwaukee
Ian A.J. Pitz
Michael Best & Friedrich LLP
Madison
Presenters:
Andrew Birrell
Birrell Law Firm PLLC
Minneapolis, MN
Eduardo E. Castro
Pines Bach LLP
Madison
Corinna Chandler
Chandler & Shavin PLLC
Dallas, TX
David Coale
Lynn Pinker Hurst & Schwegmann
Dallas, TX
Hon. Elliott M. Levine
La Crosse County Circuit Court
La Crosse
Misha Tseytlin
Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP
Chicago, IL
Michelle L. Velasquez
Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin Inc.
Milwaukee
Diane M. Welsh
Pines Bach LLP
Madison
8:00 a.m. Registration
8:30 a.m. Last Term’s First Amendment Decisions: A Panel Discussion
- Understanding of the Court’s decision in the area of school prayer, and how it confirms a change in the analysis that governs such cases
- Understanding of the new decisions in speech areas including commercial speech and campaign finance
Chad Baruch, David Coale, Hon. Elliott M. Levine
9:30 a.m. COVID-19 Vaccination Mandates: What a Long Strange Trip It's Been
- The powers of state and federal governments to mandate public health vaccination
- The current state of the law governing COVID vaccine mandates
- An analysis of the various challenges to COVID-19 vaccine mandates
Corinna Chandler, Grant C. Killoran, Ian A.J. Pitz
10:30 a.m. Break
10:45 a.m. Election Law
- Overview of the ups-and-downs of Johnson v. Wisconsin Election Commissions, Wisconsin’s 2020 redistricting litigation
- Key constitutional election issues and legal background that arose in the litigation; specifically, the Equal Protection and Voter Rights Act issues that arose during the course of litigation
Eduardo E. Castro
11:15 a.m. Tinker Redux: How a Ninth-Grade Cheerleader Reinvigorated the First Amendment in American High Schools
- Understanding of the basis and history of student speech
- Discussion of SCOTUS decisions both for and against the rights of students
- Remaining issues that divide the circuit courts
Chad Baruch
11:45 a.m. Lunch Break
12:45 p.m. Ethical Issues in the Representation of Mentally Impaired Clients
Andrew Birrell
1:35 p.m. The Latest on Abortion Laws
Michelle L. Velasquez, Diane M. Welsh
2:25 p.m. Break
2:40 p.m Contiguous Pieces of Property – Takings SCOTUS Case
Misha Tseytlin
3:10 p.m. Program Concludes
- Review the U.S. Supreme Court’s First Amendment decisions from the last term
- Understand the evolution of the high Court’s student speech jurisprudence
- Explore the current state of election law and voting rights
- Examine the status of abortion and reproductive health post-Dobbs
- Individual rights & liberties lawyers
- Criminal law practitioners
- Appellate lawyers
- Public interest lawyers
- Government lawyers
- School lawyers
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