Military Personnel Rights, Federal Judicial Nominations Top Agenda for ABA Annual Meeting in New York

CHICAGO, July 16, 2008 - Ensuring that military personnel get access to the courts when they are victims of injurious government conduct; expediting and otherwise improving the process of federal judicial nominations; and enhancing efforts to ban racial profiling are among the critical legal issues to be considered by the American Bar Association’s policy-making House of Delegates... More »

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