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10A |
Adopts the Best Practices for Judges in the Settlement and Trial of Cases Involving Unrepresented Litigants in Housing Court. |
Adopted as Revised |
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10B |
Urges Congress to examine the "incident to service" exception to the Federal Tort Claims Act. |
Adopted |
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10C |
Urges state, local, and territorial bar associations to adopt programs of introductory judicial education to assist lawyers with potential career aspirations of service in the judiciary. |
Withdrawn |
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10D |
Urges state and territorial judiciaries, in cooperation with state, local and specialty bar associations, to undertake assessments of their judicial systems. |
Adopted |
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10E |
Urges passage of H.R. 5833, to amend title 28, United States Code, to provide for the direct payment of attorney fees and costs to the attorney representing a prevailing party in certain Social Security Disability Insurance and Supplemental Security Income claims. |
Withdrawn |
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11-1 |
Amends §1.2 of the Constitution to include the following language as one of the purposes of the Association: "to defend the right to life of all innocent human beings, including all those conceived but not yet born." |
Postponed Indefinitely |
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11-2 |
Amends §21.12 of the Bylaws to add a Student Associates category of membership for individuals enrolled in college or university level post secondary educational studies and have an interest in the work of the American Bar Association. |
Adopted |
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11-3 |
Amends §31.7 of the Bylaws to discontinue the Standing Committee on Lawyers’ Title Guaranty Funds. |
Adopted |
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11-4 |
Amends §31.7 of the Bylaws to create a Standing Committee on
Gun Violence. |
Adopted |
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11-5 |
Proposes a number of housekeeping amendments to the Association’s Constitution, Bylaws and House Rules of Procedure. |
Adopted |
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100 |
Urges the U.S. Government to ratify the United Nations Convention on the Use of Electronic Communications in International Contracts. |
Adopted |
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101 |
Grants approval, reapproval and extension of the term of approval to several paralegal education programs, and withdraws the approval of two programs. |
Adopted |
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102 |
Supports international adoption as an integral part of a comprehensive child welfare strategy to address the worldwide problem of children without permanent homes and supports policies that make the process of international adoption more timely, less costly and less burdensome, while ensuring that international adoption practices are ethical and legal. |
Adopted/Report Revised |
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103 |
Urges federal, state, tribal and territorial legislative bodies, governmental agencies and health care providers to establish and support decision-making protocols to ensure that the wishes of those who have advanced chronic progressive illnesses are appropriately translated into visible and portable medical orders. |
Adopted as Revised |
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104A |
Recommends that Rule 32 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure be amended by the addition of subsections (c)(3) and (c)(4). |
Adopted as Revised |
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104B |
Urges federal, state, tribal, local and territorial governments to develop comprehensive plans to ensure that the public is informed about conditions in correctional and detention facilities for adults and juveniles. |
Adopted as Revised |
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104C |
Urges federal, state, local and territorial governments to enact effective legislation, policies and procedures to ban law enforcement’s use of racial or ethnic characteristics not justified by specific and articulable facts suggesting that an individual may be engaged in criminal behavior. |
Adopted as Revised |
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104D |
Urges federal, state, local and territorial trial judges to give a cross-racial identification jury instruction where appropriate to guard against the enhanced risk of eyewitness misidentification. |
Adopted as Revised |
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105 |
Urges state, territorial and tribal legislative bodies and appropriate governmental agencies to develop comprehensive strategies to reduce the incidence of prescription drug diversion and abuse including the utilization of Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs. |
Failed |
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106 |
Urges the Senate to give its advice and consent to the ratification of the 2007 Hague Convention on the International Recovery of Child Support and Other Forms of Family Maintenance. |
Adopted |
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107 |
Urges Congress to change laws to broaden federal review of the disproportionate representation of racial and ethnic minority children in the child welfare system and require and fund states to track, report, analyze and take and report on corrective action. |
Adopted |
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108A |
Urges the United States Government to expand and broaden interaction with the International Criminal Court ("ICC"). |
Adopted |
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108B |
Supports the contribution that the negotiated liberalization of international trade in goods and services, through government-to-government trade agreements, makes to the spread of the Rule of Law, both at the state-to-state level and within participants’ domestic legal systems. |
Adopted |
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109 |
Urges federal, state, local, territorial and tribal governments to adopt legislation and appropriate funding to strengthen protection and assistance for victims of gender-based violence within the United States and abroad. |
Adopted |
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110 |
Replaces the Judicial Division Standards Relating to Juror Use and Management with the ABA Principles for Juries and Jury Trials, adopted February 2005. |
Adopted |
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111A |
Adopts the Model Statute on Local Land Use Planning Procedures, dated August 2008, which addresses local land use procedures. |
Adopted |
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111B |
Urges Congress, states and territories to prescribe the administrative procedures to be employed by congressionally approved interstate compact agencies. |
Adopted |
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112A |
Adopts the Model Rule for Registration of In-House Counsel, dated August 2008, which provides a mechanism for jurisdictions to identify and monitor in-house counsel who are practicing in the jurisdiction. |
Adopted |
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112B |
Concurs in the action of the Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar in deleting Interpretation 302-7 of the Standards for Approval of Law Schools concerning bar examination preparation courses. |
Approved the Motion to Concur |
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113A |
Adopts the ABA Model Act Governing the Representation of Children in Abuse, Neglect and Dependency Proceedings, dated August 2008. |
Withdrawn |
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113B |
Adopts the black letter of the Standards for Final Pretrial Submissions and Orders, dated August 2008, which are intended to provide guidance on how to move the case forward to trial |
Adopted |
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114 |
Amends Model Rule of Professional Conduct 1.10 ("Imputation of Conflicts of Interest: General Rule") to permit screening within a law firm. |
Postponed Indefinitely |
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115 |
Urges states and territories to adopt legislation creating pilot programs that enable and encourage medical personnel to report hospital events which, if repeated, could threaten patient safety. |
Adopted as Amended |
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116A |
Urges states, territories and tribes to support the removal of legal barriers to the provision by healthcare provides of Expedited Partner Therapy in the treatment of those sexually transmitted diseases. |
Adopted as Revised |
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116B |
Urges states and territories to provide for mutual telemedicine licensure recognition, subject to compliance with applicable fees, discipline and professional standards of each jurisdiction’s medical board. |
Adopted as Revised |
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117A |
Urges Congress to support quality and accessible justice by ensuring adequate, stable, long-term funding for tribal justice systems. |
Adopted |
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117B |
Urges Congress to support quality and accessible justice by ensuring adequate, stable, long-term funding for tribal justice systems. |
Withdrawn |
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118 |
Encourages Senators in each state to jointly establish bipartisan commissions to evaluate the qualifications of prospective candidates for nomination to the U.S. district and courts of appeals. |
Adopted as Revised |
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119A |
Amends the Election Administration Guidelines and Commentary, dated August 2008, regarding the administration of the electoral process. |
Adopted |
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119B |
Urges law firms and other legal employers to allow time spent by lawyers as official poll workers (not poll watchers) to qualify as pro bono, community service or voluntary public service hours. |
Adopted as Revised |
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120 |
Adopts the Model Sustainability Policy and Implementation Guidelines for Law Organizations, dated August 2008. |
Postponed Indefinitely |
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121 |
Adopts a new mission, goals and objectives of the American Bar Association. |
Adopted as Revised |
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300 |
Addresses certain proposed legislation and international policy initiatives intended to impose obligations on company formation agents, including lawyers. |
Adopted as Revised |
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301 |
Urges State, local and territorial legislatures and regulatory bodies to refrain from requiring private investigator licenses for persons engaged in computer or digital forensic work, including expert testimony. |
Adopted |
