Civil Rights Étouffée 2025 in New Orleans

The 2025 Civil Rights Étouffée (our 5th rendition) is back live in New Orleans on February 13 and 14, 2025 to coincide with the first weekend of Mardi Gras parades -

BRING YOUR SWEETIE SOME CLE FOR VALENTINES DAY !!

Please note that DAY 1 begins at 2pm and consists of 3 panels (3 CLE credits) and is a Nuts and Bolts of § 1983 Litigation Bootcamp (see below for more information).

DAY 2 is a full day - 6 CLE credits beginning at 9am with both plenary panels and some hours offering optional A or B panels.

Both days are hosted in the French Quarter at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation's George & Joyce Wein School of Music.

HOTEL BLOCKS are reserved at two hotels:

QUALIFYING STATES FOR CLE CREDITS

The Étouffée will be submitting for CLE approval that will allow attorneys for each of these states* to earn hours towards their CLE obligations for the following states:

Florida, Illinois, Kansas, Louisiana, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Texas, Utah.

Many other states have reciprocity and self-reporting. If you want to attend and earn CLE, let us know where you are from and we an share materials for your state's approval.

Our Panels and Panelists (all panel titles are working titles)

Thursday.NUTS & BOLTS. February 12, 2025

Broad 1983 Overview, Monell, Remedies

Hannay Lommers-Johnson, Macarthur Justice; Lydia Wright - Promise of Justice Initiative; Elena Cohen, FemmeLaw

ADA and Other 1983 Relevant Claims (you may not think about)

Chris Edmunds; Melanie Bray, Disability Rights Louisiana; Aisha Novasky: ALJ

Depositions 101

Wylie Stecklow

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FRIDAY CRE'25 Full Day Conference February 14, 2025

Procedural Aspects of Impact Litigation: Mapping a Path Forward

Judge Judith Levy, ED Michigan; Margaret Bethenhausen, Michigan AAG; Cashauna Hill, Redress Movement (Exec Director)

Substantive Due Process - Using 1983 in Non Police Claims

Erica Brody, Brody Hardoon Perkins & Kesterman; Beth Rivers, Pitt McGehee Palmer Bonanni & Rivers

1st Am Retaliation and Reputation Harm in 1983

Courtney Caprio, Kelley | Uustal; Patrick Giacomo, Institute for Justice

Civil Rights Mediation in Big Cases

Judge Bernice Donald, 6th Cricuit Court of Appeals (Ret.); Magistrate Judge Karen Wells Roby (ED LA); Utah State Risk Monitor Rachel Terry; Stephen Haedicke (Moderator)

Holdng Banks Accountable for Harm Caused in Communities of Color

Lauren DiMartino, Brown Gold (Moderator); Morgan Williams NFHA; Stacy Sechnaydre, Tulane Law; Pam Perry, Navy FCU

Caryl Andrea Oberlman Education Panel

Victor Jones, NAACP LDF; Meiissa Candelaria, NM Center on Law & Poverty; Susan Horwitz, NYC Legal Aid Society

Qualified Immunity: The Doctine that Maybe Isn't

William Most (Moderator); Jaba Tsitsuashvili, Institute for Justice; Lauren Bonds, NPAP

Immigration - Civil & Due Process Violations in Louisana Detention Facilties

Rose Murray, SPLC; Sarah Decker, RFK Human Rights; Mich Gonzalez, Freedom for Immigrants

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Lawyering While Trans

Bryanna Jennkins. Lavendar Rights Project; J. Remy Green, Femme Law

SPONSORS

The 2025 Civil Rights Étouffée is now accepting sponsors, please reach out if your chapter, section or law firm would like to be a part of the Civil Rights Etouffee 2025.

The CRE'23 Sponsors included:

Rock Fusco & Connelly, LLC

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Pitt McGehee Palmer Bonanni Rivers

Shulman & Hill

Wylie Stecklow PLLC

Dane Law

Stephen J. Haedicke

FBA Chapters including: Chicago Chapter, District of Columbia Chapter, Eastern District of MichiganChapter, Eastern District of New York Chapter, Inland Empire Chapter, Kansas & Western Missouri Chapter, Lafayette-Acadiana Chapter, Massachusetts Chapter, Middle District of Pennsylvania Chapter, Minnesota Chapter, New Orleans Chapter, Northern District of Ohio Chapter, Oklahoma City Chapter, St. Louis Chapter, Southern District of New York Chapter, South Florida Chapter, Tampa Bay Chapter, Utah Chapter, Washington State Chapter.

The FBA Young Lawyers Division, Federal Judicial Law Clerk Committee, and the Haitian Lawyers Association

The Étouffée invites your law firm, your chapter, or your affinity bar association to join this list and help us continue to ensure the Étouffée is available to all regardless of financial position. For more info on becoming an Etouffee co-sponsor, we are at CivilrightsEtouffee (AT) gmail (DOT) com

FOR MORE INFORMATION www.ETOUFFEELAW.com

Laissez L’Étouffée Rouler

CRE'23 Posters Below, stay tuned for updated 2025 panels and posters

Host or Publisher Federal Bar Association Civil Rights Law Section