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ABA Launches Project Linking Volunteer Lawyers with Military Personnel Needing Civil Representation
NEW YORK CITY, Aug. 11, 2008 – The American Bar Association is launching a project that will allow civilian lawyers to represent active-duty military personnel in state and local courts.
Incoming ABA President H. Thomas Wells Jr. announced the ABA Military Pro Bono Project during his morning press conference at the Hilton New York today. » read more »
ABA Weighs in on Access to Courts for Military Personnel, Federal Judicial Nomination Process and International Criminal Court
NEW YORK, Aug. 12, 2008 –The American Bar Association’s House of Delegates approved recommendations relating to expanding military members’ access to the courts, encouraging bipartisan commissions to evaluate prospective judicial candidates and urging the U.S. government to expand its interaction with the International Criminal Court. The House, the ABA’s policy-making body, met during the final two days of the Association’s Annual Meeting in New York City. » read more »
Vienna Forum to Launch Movement for Justice in U.S., Other Nations
Stronger Rule of Law Is Key to Global Challenges, Leaders of Different Professions Say
WASHINGTON, D.C., May 20 — Prominent international leaders in business, government, nonprofit associations and the law have announced a historic gathering in Vienna, Austria, saying they must together build stronger institutions of law and justice, in order to defeat such ills as disease, hunger, environmental damage and human rights violations. » read more »
ABA Leader Urges Fair Trial Procedures for Guantanamo Detainees
WASHINGTON, D.C., Feb. 28, 2008 – Saying that the capital trials of six Guantanamo detainees should comply with well-established guidelines for death penalty cases, American Bar Association President William H. Neukom has offered, in a letter to President Bush, to “engage the most able legal minds to ensure that these cases comport with the rule of law, so precious to our democracy." » read more »
ABA Testifies Against Disparities in Crack and Powder Cocaine Sentencing
WASHINGTON, D.C., Feb. 12, 2008 – "The crack-powder disparity is simply wrong and the time to fix it is now," stated James E. Felman in his remarks on behalf of the American Bar Association before the Senate Judiciary, Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs Subcommittee, earlier today. The ABA is part of a broad consensus that finds disparity in sentences for crack and powder cocaine offenses "unjustifiable and plainly unjust." » read more »
US Attorney General Michael Mukasey's Prepared Remarks at the ABA National Security Law Breakfast
WASHINGTON, Dec. 19, 2007 -- The following are prepared remarks of Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey at the American Bar Association National Security Law Breakfast:
Thank you Stewart for that introduction. It's a pleasure to be here with you today. I want to talk to you this morning about the need to put in place--permanently--the national security tools that we use for the war on terror--and in particular, about the need to modernize the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or "FISA" as it's commonly called. » read more »
FEMA, American Bar Association to Enhance Legal Services for Disaster Victims
November 15, 2007, WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the American Bar Association (ABA), on behalf of its Young Lawyers Division (YLD), announced today that a new Memorandum of Agreement was signed increasing the reach and array of legal services delivered to low-income victims of major disasters. » read more »
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