Animal
Law Section of the LSBA's
7th
Annual CLE
"From Trust to Farm"
FRIDAY,
DECEMBER 11, 2015
7
CLE Credit Hours
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ST.
CHRISTOPHER HOEL
114
Magazine Street, New Orleans, LA 70130
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Coffee & Tea provided throughout the day.
Pastries and Muffins provided by:
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$160
for Animal Law Section Members
$170 for Non-Section Members of the LSBA
$45 for individuals not
seeking CLE credits
Valet: Please
remind the valet you are with the conference when dropping off/picking
up.
AGENDA
(ORDER OF PRESENTATIONS MAY CHANGE DEPENDING ON SPEAKERS' SCHEDULES):
8:00 to 8:30 am: Registration
HOUR 1
8:30 - 9:30
John Pecarrere The
Louisiana Pet Trust Statute: A discussion of pet trusts in
general and specifically a review of the new Louisiana Pet Trust
Statute that was enacted by the Louisiana legislature in 2015.
The discussion will include a history and intent of the new statute and
a comparison to some of the laws in other states. It will also
include a discussion of specific trust provisions which would be unique
to animal trusts. There will also be a review of certain articles
and books written in recent years on this subject. (1 hour)
5 minute break
HOUR 2
9:35 - 10:35
Dale Bartlett
A review of federal and state laws regulating pet stores with an
emphasis on the recent Missouri Pet Breeders Association vs. County of
Cooke, Illinois; A review of federal and state
laws that regulate dog and cat breeders, recent changes to the USDA
licensing requirements and pending litigation involving breeders and
brokers of pets. (1 Hour)
5 minute break
HOUR 3
10:40 - 11:40
Carter Dillard
Strategies for selecting which animal cases to take to ensure the most
impact; Updates on current legislation and litigation involving Animal
Law (1 hour)
11:40 - 12:40 LUNCH - Provided in the Hotel Lobby
HOUR 4
12:40 - 1:40
Lisa Winebarger
Factory Farming and the Law (discussion of relevant legal framework,
challenges, available legal tools); Enforcement of Protective Laws for
Farmed Animals (discussion of obstacles to enforcement of limited
protective laws for farmed animals, and some possible alternatives) (1
Hour)
5 minute break
HOUR 5
1:45 - 2:45 Professor David Cassuto Environment, Ethics, and the Factory Farm (1 Hour)
5 minute break
HOUR 6
2:50 - 3:50
Claire Tonry
Animals in Research: A Discussion of biomedical research using animals;
federal animal experimentation laws and the nexus with the Endangered
Species Act. (1 Hour)
5 minute break
HOUR 7
3:55 - 4:55 Richard Rosenthal
A discussion of cases litigated involving pets held by animal control and the pet owner’s rights therein. (1 Hour)
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES:
John L. Pecarrere, Jr. is a
lifetime resident of New Orleans and a member of the Louisiana Bar. He
has a B.A and an M.B.A from Tulane University, an M.A. from the
University of New Orleans and received his J.D. from Loyola University
in 1987. His is a licensed CPA and prior to attending law school
worked in public accounting and in the oil and gas industry. Mr.
Pecarrere has worked for several law firms and as a sole practitioner.
He has worked in most areas of the law, including business, domestic,
bankruptcy, personal injury and medical malpractice defense. Mr.
Pecarrere has been an adjunct faculty member of Delgado and Nunez
Colleges where he has taught business courses. He presently is
employed by the Louisiana Department of Revenue.
Professor David N. Cassuto
has taught at Pace Law School since July 2003 and previously practiced
complex civil litigation at Coblentz, Patch, Duffy & Bass LLP in
San Francisco. Prior to that, he was an associate at Pillsbury Winthrop
LLP in San Francisco and served on the Executive Committee of the San
Francisco Bar Association’s Environmental Law Practice Group. Before
entering private practice, Professor Cassuto clerked for the Honorable
Rosemary Barkett on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh
Circuit. A former professor of English specializing in literature and
the environment, Professor Cassuto has published and lectured widely on
legal, literary, and environmental issues. He is also a frequent
speaker on legal and cultural studies.
Professor Cassuto teaches in the areas of property, professional
responsibility, animal law, water law, international comparative law,
and legal and environmental theory. He directs the Brazil American
Institute for Law and Environment (BAILE), a cooperative endeavor with
the Getulio Vargas Foundation School of Law in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Professor Cassuto was a Fulbright Fellow at FGV Direito Rio, in Rio de
Janeiro Brazil in 2010, is a visiting professor at the Federal
University of Bahia, Brazil, and is the Class of 1946 Distinguished
Visiting Professor of Environmental Law at Williams College. Professor
Cassuto earned a BA from Wesleyan University, an MA from Indiana
University, a PhD from Indiana University and a JD from University of
California, Berkeley, School of Law.
Lisa Winebarger joined
Compassion Over Killing's Legal Advocacy Program in 2013, where her
work focuses on challenging the widespread abuse of farmed animals in
industrial animal agriculture through litigation and other legal
avenues. Lisa is also an integral part of COK's undercover
investigative work, and works with local law enforcement and
prosecutors to secure criminal charges for cruelty to farmed animals.
Lisa received her J.D. with honors from the American University
Washington College of Law, and is a member of the California and Hawaii
bars.;
Carter Dillard currently
serves as Director of Litigation for the Animal Legal Defense Fund
where he manages over half a dozen staff attorneys and dozens of
participating pro bono law firms. Carter helped quadruple within less
than three years the number of matters the organization had filed, and
he has helped achieve judgments, settlements, and precedent that among
other things replaced negligent management at public shelters, ended
systematic abuses at factory farms and hunting facilities, moved
wildlife from ramshackle roadside zoos into sanctuaries, improved
standing for animal advocates, and halted false advertising of animal
products.
With his sister, Carter co-founded the organization Four Feet Forward,
which helps small animal advocacy organizations with legal and media
campaigns by offering professional services at no cost. He also serves
as Executive Director of Uncrowded.org, an organization that
simultaneously integrates human rights, environmental and child welfare
advocacy by promoting smaller and more loving families. Carter
previously served as General Counsel for Compassion Over Killing, where
he settled a case that resulted in one of the biggest changes in animal
product advertising in U.S. history, and as Director of Farm Animal
Litigation for the Humane Society of the United States, where he helped
orchestrate one of the only animal cruelty prosecutions of a
corporation for factory farming. Carter began his career as an Honors
Program appointee to the U.S. Department of Justice and later served as
a legal advisor to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, in the
National Security Law Division. He has taught on the faculties or held
appointments at Lewis and Clark Law School, Emory University School of
Law, and Loyola University New Orleans, College of Law. He holds a B.A.
from Boston College, a J.D., Order of the Coif and with honors, from
Emory University, and an LL.M. from New York University where he wrote
his thesis—on a deeply theorized right to have children—under Jeremy
Waldron. Carter has written a dozen articles, including peer-reviewed
pieces, on animal protection and human population ethics in journals
published by Yale, Duke, Northwestern and other universities, and he
currently sits on the Steering Committee for the Population Ethics:
Theory and Practice research project at the Future of Humanity
Institute, University of Oxford.
Dale Bartlett is
public policy director for the Stop Puppy Mills campaign at The Humane
Society of the United States. He has worked in animal protection
at the national and local levels for 26 years and has been in the
forefront of advancing stronger laws to protect animals from cruelty
and abuse. Dale has worked with law enforcement and prosecutors
on hundreds of animal cruelty cases across the nation, has participated
with local law enforcement in puppy mill raids to remove dogs from
cruel conditions, and is a nationally recognized expert on animal
cruelty issues who has testified before the U.S. Congress, most state
legislatures, and dozens of local legislatures. A founding member
of the National District Attorney’s Association’s Animal Cruelty
Advisory Committee, Dale views the law, including animal law, as a
simple codification of societal values. Through his legislative work on
behalf of HSUS, he seeks to close the gap between our beliefs about how
animals should be treated and the laws governing their treatment
Claire Tonry
practices law in Seattle, Washington with Smith & Lowney. Her work
focuses on citizen enforcement of the Clean Water Act. Prior to
joining Smith & Lowney, Ms. Tonry operated a solo law practice
representing public interest clients, individuals and sustainable
businesses. Much of her practice has aimed to reduce polluted runoff
from industrial and construction sites.
Claire earned her J.D. and certificate in Environmental and Natural
Resources Law, with a focus in Animal Law from Lewis & Clark Law
School in 2009. During law school, Claire was a director of the Student
Animal Legal Defense Fund, a student attorney with the Pacific
Environmental Advocacy Center, a volunteer with the Northwest
Environmental Defense Center, and worked as a law clerk for the Sequoia
Forestkeeper in California, and Meyer, Glitzenstein & Crystal in
Washington D.C. Through these organizations Claire gained
experience in litigation, administrative appeals and advocacy under a
variety of state and federal statutes, including the Endangered Species
Act, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, the Clean Water Act,
the National Environmental Policy Act and the National Forest
Management Act. Claire's academic work includes two significant papers
on the consumer and animal welfare implications of animal products
advertised as "humane". Ms. Tonry holds a B.A., with honors, in
Environmental Studies and Economics from the University of Oregon and
is admitted to practice in both Oregon and Washington.
Richard Rosenthal is
General Counsel and Co-Founder of The Lexus Project and practices law in
Oceanside, New York where he defends dangerous dogs and other legal
issues that arise when dealing with Animal Control agencies. www.thelexusproject.org
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