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Webinar: Beyond the Headlines: Key SCOTUS Civil Rights Decisions from the 2022-23 Term
If you’ve been paying attention to the news this year, you already know that the U.S. Supreme Court’s October 2022 term has been hugely consequential, with some opinions that could be best described as seismic, impacting the civil rights of millions of Americans. In this CLE program, we’ll go beyond the headlines to identify and discuss not only the Supreme Court decisions in the areas of voting rights and affirmative action, but also the Court’s deep docket of civil rights cases affecting the First Amendment, Indian law, capital punishment, remedies under federal civil rights statutes, education and disability rights, and more. The panelists will discuss important holdings and share their insights on the practical ramifications of this term’s rulings and perspectives on future civil rights decisions at the Court. This CLE will be perfect for civil rights practitioners, court watchers, and the civil-rights-curious, who’d like a more comprehensive look at civil rights cases and trends at the Supreme Court. The panelists for this CLE are Tulane Clinical Assistant Professor of Law Sam Brandao and Stanford Visiting Professor of Law Easha Anand; privacy and compliance attorney Benjamin de Seingalt will moderate. This CLE program is sponsored by the Civil Rights Section of the Federal Bar Association.
Presented by the Federal Bar Association’s Civil Rights Law Section.
About the Presenters
Moderator: Ben de Seingalt
Benjamin de Seingalt is the Corporate Counsel and Director of Compliance and Privacy for MarketVision Research, one of the largest primary market research and consulting companies in the United States. His work focuses on global privacy compliance, environmental, social, and governance stewardship, artificial intelligence, and post-market drug surveillance. Ben is also a Senior Fellow at the Lawyers’ Committee for Cultural Heritage Preservation and serves on the board of the FBA’s Section on Civil Rights. He is a graduate of Tulane University Law School, the A.B. Freeman School of Business, and Washington College.
Easha Anand
Easha Anand is a professor at Stanford Law School and co-director of the Stanford Law School Supreme Court Litigation Clinic. She partners with attorneys around the country to litigate Supreme Court cases at the certiorari and merits stages on behalf of civil rights plaintiffs, workers, and criminal defendants. Easha is also Supreme Court & Appellate Counsel at the MacArthur Justice Center, where she litigates police excessive force, prison conditions, wrongful conviction, and criminal defense and habeas cases in state and federal courts of appeal. Easha clerked for former judge Paul J. Watford on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and Justice Sonia Sotomayor of the United States Supreme Court.
Samuel T. Brandao
Sam Brandao is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Law with experience enforcing civil rights including fair housing, rights protected by the Fourth Amendment, and disability rights. He joined the Tulane Civil Rights and Federal Practice Clinic in 2016 after completing a two-year Skadden Fellowship, during which he served as a staff attorney at Southeast Louisiana Legal Services in New Orleans. At SLLS, he litigated housing discrimination cases and advocated for policy changes on behalf of people with disabilities. Brandao clerked for United States District Judge Eldon E. Fallon of the Eastern District of Louisiana and for Circuit Judge Jacques L. Wiener, Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. In the Civil Rights and Federal Practice Clinic, he assists Director Lucia Blacksher Rainer in supervising student-attorneys in a range of client representation, including federal cases involving the civil rights of incarcerated citizens, police misconduct, employment discrimination, housing discrimination, and other constitutional claims.
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CLE
CLE: 1.0 CLE Credit
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