About this Event
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
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The George and Joyce Wein Jazz & Heritage Center, 1225 North Rampart Street, New Orleans, United States
USD 135.23
