Anthony Could and Lauren DiMartino offered panels on Necessities of ADA claims and the Vestiges of Redlining throughout BGL-sponsored 2025 Federal Bar Affiliation Civil Rights Étouffée. – Melissas Meals Freedom

Anthony Could and Lauren DiMartino attended and offered on the 2025 Federal Bar Affiliation Civil Rights Étouffée, hosted in New Orleans from February 13 to 14. The 2-day occasion consisted of a mini bootcamp on Part 1983 and panels from consultants in numerous areas of civil rights litigation.

Anthony participated in a one-hour panel entitled, “Necessities of ADA Claims,” masking the necessities of People with Disabilities Act discrimination claims made below Title II and Part 504, public lodging claims below Title III, potential defenses to those claims, cures, how these claims differ from these litigated below Part 1983, and up to date regulation developments. He was joined by Melanie Bray from Incapacity Rights Louisiana, William Goren from Understanding the ADA, and S. Mandisa Moore-O’Neal from the Heart for HIV Regulation and Coverage.

Lauren, who serves on the Board of the FBA’s Civil Rights Part, moderated a one-hour panel titled, “The Vestiges of Redlining: Holding Lenders Accountable Below the Honest Housing Act.” The panel was comprised of Pamela Perry from Navy Federal Credit score Union, Stacy Seicshnaydre, a professor at Tulane Regulation, and Maureen Yap from the Nationwide Honest Housing Alliance. The panel mentioned systemic discrimination in housing and the brand new types it has taken on within the fifty-seven years because the passage of the Honest Housing Act. Panelists offered an summary of how honest housing organizations have ferreted out discriminatory practices in areas equivalent to mortgage and appraisal bias, using AI, and hurt precipitated to communities by the foreclosures disaster and the administration of Actual-Property-Owned properties, and mentioned the challenges that may be introduced and the cures obtainable, and what actions lenders can and ought to be taking to affirmatively additional honest housing and treatment previous harms.

The panels every aligned immediately with Anthony’s and Lauren’s passions and areas of experience. Anthony, a accomplice within the agency, is a number one lawyer in BGL’s civil rights follow, the place he works immediately with people and their households towards the total realization of rights granted by the ADA. A lot of Lauren’s strong follow includes using the Honest Housing Act to help people and non-profits impacted by discriminatory conduct and to problem methods perpetuating segregation, with a selected curiosity within the intersection of housing and public training.

MORE ABOUT ANTHONY MAY

Anthony J. Could has represented purchasers in quite a lot of complicated litigation issues together with aiding staff with disabilities in acquiring accessible know-how and lodging within the office, representing people who’ve been wrongfully convicted, business litigation disputes, and preventing office discrimination primarily based on sexual orientation. Study extra about Anthony right here.

MORE ABOUT LAUREN DIMARTINO

Lauren DiMartino joined Brown, Goldstein & Levy to symbolize purchasers throughout numerous areas of civil rights regulation, together with honest housing, training and incapacity rights, LGBTQ+ rights, police misconduct, and office discrimination. Her follow additionally contains appeals, and business litigation. Study extra about Lauren right here.

ABOUT BROWN, GOLDSTEIN & LEVY

Based in 1982, Brown, Goldstein & Levy is a regulation agency primarily based in Baltimore, Maryland, with an workplace in Washington, DC. The agency is nationally acknowledged in all kinds of follow areas, together with complicated civil and business litigation, civil rights, well being care, household regulation, and legal protection. Above all else, Brown, Goldstein & Levy is a client-centered regulation agency that brings many years of expertise and passionate, efficient advocacy to your combat for justice.