Resolution 10A
The Virgin Islands Bar Association submitted a recommendation urging the U.S. Supreme Court to consider racial, ethnic, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity and gender diversity in the selection process for appointment of amicus curiae, special masters, and other counsel.
This recommendation was approved, as revised, by the House.
Resolution 102
The ABA Standing Committee on the American Judicial System, Government and Public Sector Lawyers Division, Section of Litigation, Commission on the American Jury, and Section of Tort Trial and Insurance Practice submitted a recommendation urging state courts to develop and implement a civil justice improvement plan to improve the delivery of civil justice guided by the recommendations of Call to Action: Achieving Civil Justice for All, as endorsed by the Conference of Chief Justices, and urging bar associations to promote those recommendations.
This recommendation was approved by the House.
Resolution 112D
The ABA Criminal Justice Section submitted a recommendation urging the Food and Drug Administration to update its current policy requiring deferment of blood donations from men who have sex with men for one year after the donor’s most recent sexual encounter with a man to a deferral policy that assesses the risk posed by an individual based on potential recent exposures rather than on the individual’s sexual orientation.
This recommendation was approved, as revised, by the House.
Resolution 116
The ABA Section of Health Law urged Congress to amend section 1862(a)(1) of the Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. 1395y, and urged the executive branch to adopt regulations that broaden the scope of Medicare coverage by allowing coverage for items and services that are reasonable and necessary.
This recommendation was approved, as revised, by the House.
Resolution 117E
The National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws submitted a recommendation urging approval of the Uniform Unsworn Domestic Declarations Act as an appropriate act for those states desiring to adopt the specific substantive law suggested therein.
This recommendation was approved by the House.
Final Words
For more information regarding these resolutions, as well as the other resolutions discussed by the House at the 2016 ABA Mid-Year Meeting and the reports supporting those resolutions, please visit the ABA website at www.abanet.org/leadership/ 2017/midyear/.
The House of Delegates next meets at the ABA Annual Meeting in New York on August 14–15, 2017.
Grant Killoran is the coeditor of the ABA Section of Litigation Health Law Litigation newsletter and is one of the State Bar of Wisconsin’s delegates to the ABA House of Delegates. Grant is a partner and chair of the Litigation Practice Group at O'Neil, Cannon, Hollman, DeJong & Laing S.C. in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.