A protest resignation from ABA
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A member of the pro-life movement resigned from the ABA as a protest against its pro-choice stance. He states that the ABA's mission is to be an informational professional group and that it has now become an advocacy group. He finds it ironic and tragic that lawyers, who are bound to safeguard the rights of all, are with the pro-choice resolution restricting the rights of unborn children.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 1992
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United ABA criticizes house moves; previous meetings' rancor seems but a memory
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The ABA House of Delegates had complete consensus when it adopted positions opposing many parts of the Republican Party's Contract with America at its Feb 1995 meeting. Matters opposed included the Republicans' tort reform measure, the Common Sense Legal Reform Act, the federal preemption of products liability law and applying the loser-pays rule to federal diversity cases and
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 1995
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