The ABA House of Delegates passed a resolution Monday urging all law and policymaking bodies to adopt the Guardianship Bill of Rights, which recognizes 21 rights for adults who have a guardian.
The House of Delegates continued to tackle the problem of overincarceration in the United States during the ABA Annual Meeting in Denver on Monday.
At the 2023 ABA Annual Meeting in Denver on Monday, the ABA House of Delegates called for the end of using prisoners to conduct unpaid hard labor.
U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland called upon the American Bar Association to support victims of the Russian war on Ukraine at the ABA Annual Meeting in Denver on Monday.
Deborah Enix-Ross, in her final speech as president of the ABA, encouraged the House of Delegates to “keep climbing.”
The U.S. Supreme Court should adopt and publish a code of conduct, according to recommendations released Friday by an ABA task force created to recommend steps to increase the public’s trust and understanding of the judiciary.
A special committee appointed to investigate the competence of a 96-year-old federal appeals judge is recommending that she be suspended from hearing all cases for a year for failing to cooperate in the probe.
A judge in Wayne County, Michigan, has been censured and suspended for six months without pay for hiding evidence that her son had physically abused one of her grandsons.
The Commission on Women in the Profession will honor Justice Sabrina S. McKenna, Melissa Murray, Yvette Ostolaza, Deborah Willig and Jill Wine-Banks with the Margaret Brent Women Lawyers of Achievement Award at the 2023 ABA Annual Meeting.