http://www.abanow.org ABA Media Relations & Communication Services Sat, 20 Mar 2010 16:49:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The American Bar Association has an excellent Web page that lists amici curiae briefs in U.S. Supreme Court cases that the Court has accepted. Here is the link to the ABA page for the case called Doe v Reed, 09-559, the case the Court will hear on ... http://www.abanow.org/2010/03/amici-briefs-roll-in-for-petition-privacy/ Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Craig Fugate yesterday addressed the American Bar Association Homeland Security Law Institute. Fugate discussed the role of the private sector and non-profit entities in engaging the public as part of the nation’s emergency management team. http://www.abanow.org/2010/03/fema-administrator-fugate-addresses-american-bar-association-homeland-security-law-institute/ The Maine Supreme Judicial Court on Thursday rejected Husson University’s request to allow the graduates of its proposed law school to take the Maine bar exam, the school's second rejection in two years. In outlining the court’s reasons for its decision, Chief Justice Leigh I. Saufley wrote ... http://www.abanow.org/2010/03/court-refuses-husson-law-school-request-again/ The theme for this year's Law Day, set for April 29, is "Free Speech: Tradition and Technology," which students appear to be quite interested in. To get area teens motivated to enter the Law Day poster and essay contests, local attorneys have been going to schools since ... http://www.abanow.org/2010/03/law-day-set-for-april-29/ A local lawyer with a nearly 40-year-old practice will soon be the new face and voice of the nation's 400,000 lawyers. Frost, Brown and Todd attorney Bill Robinson will be the president of the American Bar Association starting in August of 2011. He'll be ABA’s chief executive officer. ... http://www.abanow.org/2010/03/local-attorney-to-be-aba-president-in-2011/ On Aug. 9, 2004, the American Bar Association House of Delegates adopted a resolution condemning ‘any use of torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment upon persons within the custody or under the physical control of the United States government (including its contractors) ... http://www.abanow.org/2010/03/how-to-treat-those-who-aid-torture/ The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit will likely be getting its first district court judge – but it won't be San Jose, Calif.'s Jeremy Fogel. The Obama administration is zeroing in on Kathleen O'Malley, a judge from the Northern District of Ohio, for a ... http://www.abanow.org/2010/03/ohio-district-court-judge-the-front-runner-for-federal-circuit-seat-say-sources/ With one scandal having forced a top House Democrat to give up an important chairmanship and questions about another New York congressman plaguing his decision to retire, Speaker Nancy Pelosi had to defend her party’s ethics at her news conference. …Questions of propriety also touched the ongoing ... http://www.abanow.org/2010/03/tide-of-ethical-questions-stains-all-politicians/ If you cut it, will they come? That's what the American Bar Association is asking when it comes to adding solo attorneys to its membership ranks. Last month, the ABA agreed on a radical shake-up of its membership dues in an effort to get more representation from ... http://www.abanow.org/2010/03/aba-cuts-dues-to-lure-solos-but-will-it-work/ In response to the Liz Cheney Web ad that questions the loyalty of lawyers who have represented Guantanamo detainees, the president of the American Bar Association said it is ‘a divisive and diversionary tactic’ to impugn ‘the character of lawyers who have sought to protect the fundamental ... http://www.abanow.org/2010/03/aba-blasts-liz-cheney-ad-as-divisive-and-diversionary/