First Annual Women’s Law Update: 2015 Notable Legislative and Legal Issues Affecting Women
WWL will present a CLE on recent court decisions and legislation affecting women in conjunction with the annual event. The CLE will take place on the afternoon of October 9, 2015, from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m., at the offices of Gordon Thomas Honeywell in downtown Tacoma, concluding immediately before the annual event. Topics will include Washington State recent legislation, including Non-consensual pornography – aka “revenge porn” (HB 1272 and HB 2140), sexual assault kit testing (HB 1068), and campus sexual assault (SB 5518 and SB 5719), Federal recent legislation, including the Affordable Care Act, marijuana use, marriage and domestic partnership laws, education, and tribal laws, and recent case law.
2 CLE Credits approved.
AGENDA
1. Washington State 2015 Legislative Update: Pamela Crone and Nancy Sapiro
a. Overview of legislative process and political environment
b. Major bills passed
i. Non-consensual pornography bills (aka “revenge porn”)
ii. Sexual assault kit testing and preservation of DNA evidence legislation
iii. Campus sexual assault legislation
c. Bills that did not pass
i. Equal Pay Opportunity Act
ii. Work-Family legislation
1. Paid sick and safe days
2. Family and medical leave insurance
iii. Reproductive rights legislation
1. Reproductive Health Act
2. Parental Notification of Abortion Act
d. Q&A
2. Case Law Update – David Ward
a. US Supreme Court
i. Young v. United Parcel Service (pregnancy discrimination)
ii. Elonis v. United States (criminal liability for making threats on Facebook)
iii. Obergefell v. Hodges (marriage for same-sex couples)
iv. Other significant decisions
b. Ninth Circuit
i. Stormans v. Wiesman (pharmacy rules in Washington)
ii. McCormack v. Herzog (abortion restrictions in Idaho)
c. Washington Supreme Court
i. J.S. v. Village Voice Media Holdings (internet advertisements that sexually exploit minors)
d. Q&A
FACULTY BIOS
PAMELA CRONE is a lawyer and lobbyist and has represented clients in Olympia since 2000. Her lobbying portfolio includes women’s legal rights, health care, domestic violence, and economic and social justice issues. Pamela is an adjunct professor at Seattle University School of Law. She graduated from Ohio State and the University of Florida Law School.
NANCY SAPIRO, an attorney since 1987, works as a lobbyist/governmental relations consultant in Washington State where she focuses on issues of advocacy, social and economic justice, women’s health, domestic violence, and education. Prior to this, she worked for approximately 10 years for Legal Voice, a women’s legal rights organization that works to advance the law through litigation, legislative advocacy and legal rights education strategies. She is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin.
DAVID WARD is Legal and Legislative Counsel at Legal Voice, where his areas of responsibility include LGBT, family law, and gender violence issues. Before joining Legal Voice, he served as the legislative liaison for the Washington State Bar Association. He is the past-president of the QLaw Foundation and a member of the Washington Supreme Court’s Gender and Justice Commission. He is a graduate of Yale Law School and Trinity University.
While we are unable to extend refunds, substitutions are allowed. Please contact wwl@wwl.org with the contact name of the substitution.
Scholarships may be available to those unable to attend due to cost. For more information, please contact Lauren Sancken at lauren.sancken@klgates.com and Rachel Reynolds at Rachel.reynolds@sedgwicklaw.com."
