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2026-11-19 14:30:00
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2026-11-19 14:30:00
2h CLE Credits
Intermediate
2
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm ESTThis session provides defense counsel with a practical framework for defending individual officers in §1983 litigation arising from police encounters and alleged constitutional violations. The discussion will address qualified immunity, excessive force, unlawful searches and seizures, and First Amendment claims, with emphasis on developing the factual and legal record needed to defeat claims at the pleading, summary judgment, and trial stages.
Steve P. InmanSylvia Aceves 3:40 pm - 4:40 pm ESTThis session focuses on defending counties, municipalities, sheriffs, and jail personnel against §1983 claims arising from detention and jail operations. Particular attention will be given to inadequate medical-care claims, deliberate indifference, Monell liability, and causation, with practical strategies for narrowing claims before trial and developing defenses supported by policies, records, expert evidence, and institutional practices.
Steve P. InmanSylvia AcevesSteve P. Inman is a Supervising Deputy County Counsel for the County of San Diego, where he represents the County and San Diego Sheriff’s Office personnel in civil rights litigation arising from jail and patrol incidents. His practice directly includes wrongful-death, inadequate-medical-care, unlawful-search-and-seizure, and excessive-force claims.
Sylvia Aceves is a trial attorney in San Diego, California, serving as Supervising Deputy County Counsel. She graduated from the University of California, Irvine, in 2005 and Chapman University School of Law in 2009. During law school, she served as Articles Editor and Assistant Symposium Editor for the Chapman Journal of Criminal Justice and as a judicial extern to the Honorable Erithe Smith at the United States Bankruptcy Court. Following law school, she joined Liberty Mutual as an attorney in the Primary Legal Group, where she handled court appearances and depositions and pursued case resolutions through mediations and informal settlement negotiations. Her trial experience includes serving as second chair in five catastrophic injury trials and as lead trial counsel in eleven jury trials that proceeded to verdict.
Steve P. Inman is a Supervising Deputy County Counsel for the County of San Diego, where he represents the County and San Diego Sheriff’s Office personnel in civil rights litigation arising from jail and patrol incidents. His practice directly includes wrongful-death, inadequate-medical-care, unlawful-search-and-seizure, and excessive-force claims.
Sylvia Aceves is a trial attorney in San Diego, California, serving as Supervising Deputy County Counsel. She graduated from the University of California, Irvine, in 2005 and Chapman University School of Law in 2009. During law school, she served as Articles Editor and Assistant Symposium Editor for the Chapman Journal of Criminal Justice and as a judicial extern to the Honorable Erithe Smith at the United States Bankruptcy Court. Following law school, she joined Liberty Mutual as an attorney in the Primary Legal Group, where she handled court appearances and depositions and pursued case resolutions through mediations and informal settlement negotiations. Her trial experience includes serving as second chair in five catastrophic injury trials and as lead trial counsel in eleven jury trials that proceeded to verdict.
Requirements
The Alabama State Bar MCLE Commission requires attorneys to complete 12 credits, including 1 ethics, by December 31 of each year. All credits must be reported by February 15 of the following year. A maximum of 12 credits, including 1 ethics credit, may be carried over for 1 year only.
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