COVID-19 Resources

We have collected some of our favorite resources for information on legislative, regulatory, judicial, and executive responses in the United States to the COVID-19 pandemic and compiled them here for your use:

• COVID-19 Laws and Legal Resources from our partners at Justia.  This site provides a lot of plain-English answers to Frequently Asked Questions about the economic strife caused by COVID-19.  It also contains information broken down by topics such as: 

  • Information for Employees

  • Eviction Bans and Mortgage Relief

  • Business Assistance

  • Taxes and COVID-19

• ​​All-50-State resource locators, also from Justia (this is a running list we will update each time Justia completes one):
  • 50-state Guide to Unemployment Benefits
  • 50-state Guide to Eviction, Mortgage, and Foreclosure Relief
  • 50-state Guide to Stay-at-Home Orders and Reopening Plans
  • 50-state Guide to COVID-19 & Taxes
  • 50-state Guide to Elections
  • 50-state Guide to Bar Exam Modifications
  • 50-state Guide to Court Operations During COVID-19
  • 50-state Guide to Travel Restrictions During COVID-19
     

• Primarily aimed at lawyers, COVID - 19 Response from our friends at Fastcase nevertheless provides a long list of excellent websites for the general public.  Be sure to check out:

  • State Action Tracking from the National Governors Association (follow the link of Fastcase’s page, then scroll down to see a state-by-state breakdown of executive actions, then keep scrolling for a list of state-by-state resource pages)

  • Fastcase’s “State Action Dashboards and Local Resources” also includes links to local resources provided by the National League of Cities, the National Conference of State Legislatures, and others

• Here is an unemployment benefits calculator from jobs website Zippia.

• You’ll find a complete rundown of “formal policy responses of federal courts, immigration courts, and state courts to the Covid-19 public health crisis" at 

Courts' Responses to the Covid-19 Crisis from the Brennan Center for Justice.

• Lexis Nexis also has taken the unusual step of creating something free for the public called COVID-19 Legislative & Regulatory Updates | State Net to find legislative, regulatory, and executive order information” for the federal government and all fifty states.

• This Lawfare blog post contains the legal authority for each state issuing quarantine or isolation orders.  

• This article lists financial resources available to DACA recipients.

• Some industry-specific resources we have found include:

  • lawyers:  a list from Clio of states deeming lawyers essential services

  • legal education:  Our friends at CALI gather resources for law teachers here; and this GitHub forum contains links to open resources 

  • Retail:  state-by-state information for retailers

  • Food:  guidance for the food industry from Cornell University

Last updated June 4, 2020 by LII Staff