In light of the COVID-19 epidemic the Fastcase team is working with our partners to ensure lawyers and volunteers have access to complimentary resources available to them. Fastcase has created a COVID-19 resource hub, bringing together free legislative and government updates and COVID-19 content across leading news media sources.
COVID-19 Cases by Court in Docket Alarm
Stay on top of trending legal issues. Below are searches for recent legal cases involving COVID-19:
Relevant COVID-19 Cases, free with Fastcase Public Links
For the week of March 22, 2020:
- DeVine v. XPO Logistics freight (N.D. Ill. 2020)
- Lipsey v. Walmart, Inc (N.D. Ill. 2020)
- United States v. Fellela (D. Conn. 2020)
- Libutan v. MGM Grand Hotel LLC (D. Nec. 2020)
- Democratic Nat’ll Comm v. Bostelmann (W.D. Wis. 2020)
Fastcase Webinars
For a schedule of Fastcase webinars regarding COVID-19 please click here. Additionally, in the coming days and weeks Fastcase will be coordinating to provide additional webinars for relief support. These webinars are available for CLE credit in many jurisdictions, and a great way to accumulate CLE credit remotely. Visit our webinar schedule blog post to sign up for sessions now.
COVID-19 News on Law Street Media
- COVID-19 Could Delay Tech Antitrust Investigations
The coronavirus pandemic could delay Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Department of Justice (DOJ) antitrust investigation of tech companies because of workplace changes in both agencies. The FTC is conducting investigations into big tech companies, including reviews of a decade’s worth of acquisitions for Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft and Alphabet. These purchases were too small […]
- EU Telecom Companies to Help Track COVID-19
European telecom providers, such as Vodafone, Deutsche Telekom (T-Mobile), Orange, Telefonica, Telecom Italia, Telenor, Telia and A1 Telekom Austria agreed to share cellular phone location data with the European Commission to help track the spread of COVID-19 and measure the pandemic’s reach. The European Commission will use “anonymised data to protect privacy and aggregate mobile […]
- DOJ Announces Charges Against COVID-19 Fraud Website
This past weekend, in an attempt to prevent fraud surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, the Department of Justice (DOJ) filed the first court action against a fraudulent COVID-19-centered website. The case was filed in the Western District Court of Texas. The defendant, who remains unnamed, is the owner of the website “coronavirusmedicalkit.com,” a website claiming to […]
COVID-19 News on LexBlog
- COVID-19 and Ethics & Compliance: Pressure, Perspective and Practical Approaches
In this time of health and safety crisis management, stretched supply chains, business uncertainties, closures and remote work, integrity standards are at their most important. Ethics & compliance functions can be indispensable guides, problem solvers and value-add partners in helping companies effectively and securely navigate a new risk environment. The COVID-19 response presents an opportunity…
- OCC Issues Guidance to Protect Essential Workers
As “stay-at-home” orders have rolled out across the United States, businesses, particularly financial services companies, have scoured definitional provisions to understand whether all forms of financial services companies have been designated as “essential businesses” and therefore exempt from closure requirements. What numerous financial services firms have found is that many categories of the financial services…
- US IRS FAQs Under Notice 2020-18 Have Provided Insight into Qualified Plan Deadlines
In Notice 2020-18 (PDF), the US Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced special Federal income tax return filing and payment relief in response to the ongoing Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) emergency. The IRS has now published Frequently Asked Questions providing additional information on the relief, some of which is relevant to employer-sponsored retirement…
Peer Resources
Fastcase would like to highlight some important resources from other legal publishing companies as well. Everyone deserves to have the resources they need to meet their firm’s and client’s short and long term legal information needs. 
State Action Dashboards and Local Resources
COVID-19 Local Action Tracker from National League of Cities
State Action on Coronavirus from National Conference of State Legislatures
State Response Tracker from National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners
Stay at Home Orders by State from the New York Times
State Bar of Texas Resource Page
California Lawyers Association Resource Page