Consent Calendar
The Resolutions Teams has compiled a Consent Calendar of Resolutions & Reports to which it does not expect substantial opposition.
Any delegate may object to inclusion of a Resolution on the Consent Calendar by submitting written notice via electronic “Salmon Slip” no later than Friday, February 3, 5 p.m. CT. Pursuant to the Assembly Standing Rules, Saturday’s Assembly will also contain a window to object to inclusion of a Resolution on the Consent Calendar.
Please note: objecting to a Resolution on the Consent Calendar adds the Resolution to the Debate Calendar, with whomever objected serving as the Resolution’s primary opponent in the debate.
Committee on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
Encourages respectful use of pronouns and honorifics consistent with a person’s gender identity within law schools, the bar admissions process, the legal profession, and the justice system. Further urges laws schools and bar admissions entities to include self-reporting options for gender-inclusive language in admissions applications, registration portals, and other submission forms.
Law Student Debt and Financial Wellness Team
Urges certain extensions of the 2020 CARES Act (which provides tax-advantaged scenarios through employer driven educational assistance plans). Further urges legislative expansions of the employer tax advantages related to employee student loan payments.
YLD Bylaws Amendment
Proposes amendments to the Mission Statement of the Bylaws of the Young Lawyers Division, to be consistent with the Division’s 2021-2026 Strategic Plan.
Approved by YLD Council at Spring Meeting 2022. Must be approved by the ABA Board of Governors to take effect.
YLD Bylaws Amendment
Proposes amendments to Article II, Membership, of the Bylaws of the Young Lawyers Division, to clarify the qualification of “Affiliate Professional” members.
Adds to amendments approved by YLD Council at Midyear Meeting 2021 and by YLD Assembly at Annual Meeting 2021. Must be approved by the ABA Board of Governors to take effect.
ABA Constitutional Amendment
Proposes amendments to the Constitution of the American Bar Association to synchronize the eligibility of a young lawyer House of Delegates member and a young lawyer member-at-large on the Board of Governors with the more inclusive eligibility of membership in the ABA Young Lawyers Division (which is, a lawyer less than 36 years old or admitted to practice in their first bar within the past ten years).
If adopted by the Division, this Resolution will be submitted to the House of Delegates for Annual Meeting 2023.
Resolutions referred to the YLD that will also be considered by the 2023 Midyear House of Delegates:
Criminal Justice Section
Urges the American Bar Association to adopt and support the report of the Criminal Justice Section’s Women in Criminal Justice Task Force on ten principles to advance the goal of gender equity among employers, institutions and people who are part of the criminal legal profession.
Criminal Justice Section
Urges all governmental entities and organizations to eliminate the use of stigmatizing and inhumane labels to refer to people who are or have been involved in the criminal legal system.
Section of Litigation
International Law Section
Adopts the American Bar Association Best Practices for Remote Depositions, dated February 2023.
Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section
Urges Congress and the United States Department of Agriculture to incentivize the safeguarding of the environment, human health, food safety, animal welfare and farmers by providing natural disaster preparedness training and guidance to farmers and other animal producers who seek federal government payments including, but not limited to, those through the Livestock Indemnity Program.
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Section of Civil Rights and Social Justice
Commission on Homelessness and Poverty
Urges federal, state, local, territorial, and tribal governments to amend existing laws and/or enact new laws to provide a refundable personal income tax credit for qualified lower-income renters and tenants.
Section of Civil Rights and Social Justice
Center for Human Rights
Coalition on Racial and Ethnic Justice
Commission on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
Opposes all federal, state, local, territorial, and tribal legislation, regulation, and agency policy that attempts to impose medical or surgical intervention on minors with intersex traits (also known as variations in sex characteristics) without the minor’s informed consent or assent, and urges licensed professionals not to conduct or propose medical or surgical intervention on minors with intersex traits until the minor requests the proposed care, understands the impact of the proposed care as well as alternatives, is provided with affirming psychosocial supports, and gives informed consent or assent, except when immediate life-threatening circumstances require emergency intervention.
Section Of Civil Rights and Social Justice
Center for Human Rights
Coalition on Racial and Ethnic Justice
Commission on Sexual Orientation And Gender Identity
Senior Lawyers Division
Opposes governmental actions and policies that unreasonably interfere with a person’s abilities to direct their own health care, including their right to refuse unwanted medical treatment and their legally authorized substitute decisionmakers’ rights to refuse medical treatment on their behalf.
Section Of Civil Rights and Social Justice
Center For Human Rights
Coalition on Racial and Ethnic Justice
Commission on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
Criminal Justice Section
Senior Lawyers Division
Opposes federal, state, local, territorial, or tribal legislation and regulations that restrict the right of any individual to travel interstate to access medical care.
Section Of Civil Rights and Social Justice
Coalition On Racial And Ethnic Justice
Commission On Sexual Orientation And Gender Identity
National Asian Pacific American Bar Association
International Law Section
Senior Lawyers Division
Condemns antisemitism and proposes certain ameliorating measures to combat it.
Commission on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
Section of Civil Rights And Social Justice
Encourages state and territorial bar licensing entities to eliminate from applications required for admission to the bar any questions that ask about sexual orientation or gender identity and to eliminate processes that could lead to unintended disclosure of sexual orientation or gender identity without explicit consent from the applicant.
King County Bar Association
Urges SCOTUS to adopt a code of judicial ethics.
New York State Bar Association
Supports the adoption of bench cards addressing best practices for judges in "using LGBTQ+ inclusive language and pronouns."
Virgin Islands Bar Association
Urges governments to remove racial & ethnic bias symbols of the Confederate States of America from judicial areas accessible to jurors, litigants, attorneys, witnesses, and the general public in courthouses, courtrooms, and the exterior of any government facilities in which judicial proceedings are held.
International Law Section
Center for Human Rights
ABA Representatives and Observers to the United Nations
Condemns the Russian Federation's unlawful invasion of Ukraine.