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Event Information
Live Webcast: Civil Rights Litigation Law
January 26, 2023
Credits
N/A
MCLE: 6.25
Pricing
Dates
Thursday, January 26, 2023Time
8:45 AM - 5:00 PMRegistration Deadline
Friday, January 27, 2023
The SC Bar CLE Division and the SC Bar Civil Rights Law Section are proud to present a special and powerful "Civil Rights Litigation Law" seminar. Planned by United States Magistrate Judge Sherri Lydon, this important program features panel discussions and presentations by Magistrate Judges Thomas Rogers, Kaymani West, Mary Gordon Baker, Shiva Hodges, Molly Cherry, Kevin McDonald and Paige Gossett, as well as experienced civil rights practitioners Chris Mills, Stuart Andrews, Daniel Plyler, Reed Colfax, and Kyle Hair. Our outstanding faculty will provide authoritative and practical guidance on a number of issues critical to successful civil rights, and specifically Section 1983, practice in the United States District Courts. Don't miss this unique opportunity to hear from South Carolina's U.S. Magistrate bench and a several "in the trenches" practitioners.
This seminar is an intermediate level program. This program qualifies for 6.25 MCLE credit hours.
SC Supreme Court Commission on CLE Course #:
Live Webcast hours DO NOT count as "live" hours. These hours are Alternatively Delivered Medium Hours (NON-LIVE Hours).
The South Carolina Bar is an accredited CLE provider in South Carolina only. Attorneys are responsible for seeking their own credit in other jurisdictions.
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Need to cancel or transfer your registration? Simply notify us in writing no later than 24 hours prior to the published start time of the seminar at registrar@scbar.org. You will be eligible to receive a full refund or be given access to the archived on-demand version of the same seminar, if available - all with no cancellation or transfer fee. Refunds will not be issued for cancellations made within 24 hours of a seminar start time.
Continuing Education
Agenda
8:30 a.m.
Introduction of Program
8:45 a.m.
Overview of Section 1983 Litigation-Panel Discussion
The Honorable Thomas E. Rogers, III, U.S. Magistrate
Judge
The Honorable Kaymani D. West, U.S. Magistrate Judge
The Honorable Mary Gordon Baker, U.S. Magistrate Judge
9:45 a.m.
Writing for the Court
The Honorable Shiva V. Hodges, U.S. Magistrate Judge
10:15 a.m.
Morning break
10:30 a.m.
Qualified Immunity: Current state of the law and recent circuit
court developments
The Honorable Molly H. Cherry, U.S. Magistrate Judge
11:15 a.m.
Excessive Force Cases
Chris Mills – J. Christopher Mills LLC, Columbia
12:00 p.m.
Lunch
1:30 p.m.
Deliberate Indifference Standard
The Honorable Kevin F. McDonald, U.S. Magistrate Judge
2:00 p.m.
Exhaustion of Administrative Remedies
The Honorable Paige J. Gossett, U.S. Magistrate Judge
2:30 p.m.
Litigating Conditions of
Confinement
Stuart
Andrews – Special Counsel at Burnette, Shutt & McDaniel, PA, Columbia
3:00 p.m.
Afternoon Break
3:15 p.m.
Litigation with a Pro Se Prisoner/Plaintiff
Daniel C. Plyler, Smith Robinson, Columbia
3:45 p.m.
Trial talk: Discussion of NAACP v. City of Myrtle Beach:
Equal Protection for Black Bike Week
Reed Colfax, Partner at Relman Colfax, Washington, DC
Kyle Hair, Former law clerk of the Honorable Sherri A. Lydon
and Associate at Alston & Bird, Charlotte, NC
5:00 p.m.
Adjourn