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Code Committee Meeting on Mar. 6, 2012 at CAAF

Mike "No Man" Navarre — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:56:30 +0000

The annual Art. 146, UCMJ Code Committee public meeting will be held Mar. 6, 2012 at 10:00 am at the CAAF Courtroom, see announcement here.

Mark Your Calendars: CAAF Judicial Conference and CLE March 7-8, 2012

Mike "No Man" Navarre — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 22:32:50 +0000

From the CAAF website, here, I don’t think we posted the link before, 2012 Judicial Conference and Continuing Legal Education Program, March 7 – 8, 2012 at the Catholic University of America , Columbus School of Law. The schedule of events is not active. We’ll update you when it is.

CAAF to hold session in honor of the late Judge Perry next Thursday

Dwight Sullivan — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 06:35:03 +0000

Judge Matthew J. Perry served as a judge on the Court of Military Appeals from February 1976 through September 1979, when he left the court to become a United States District Judge in South Carolina. By the time of his death in July 2011, the Columbia, South Carolina federal courthouse in which he worked as a senior judge was named for him.

The Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces will hold a memorial session in honor of Judge Perry next Thursday, 12 January, at 1100. The memorial session is open to the public. The keynote speaker will be South Carolina Supreme Court Chief Justice Jean Hoefer Toal.

In addition to serving as a judge for 35 years, Judge Perry is remembered as a leading advocate in the legal battle for civil rights. As noted by the Courthouse News Service here, he litigated cases that led to the integration of South Carolina beaches, parks, restaurants, public schools, and Clemson University. Clemson later hired him to represent the university in connection with NCAA rules violations. That’s an example of what this article calls his ability to make “friends of his enemies even as he compelled resistant whites to open public parks and university classrooms to black South Carolinians.”

Judge Perry served in the Army from 1942 to 1946.

TJAGLCS to celebrate 60th birthday

Dwight Sullivan — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 01:05:11 +0000

An alert reader called our attention to this hamptonroads.com post reporting that the Army Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center and School will celebrate its 60th anniversary on 4 October. The Judge Advoate General of the Army, Lieutenant General Dana K. Chipman, and UVA President Teresa A. Sullivan will speak at a public ceremony at 1400.

h/t Bobby Don

Jobs for JAGs registration open

Dwight Sullivan — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 14:28:46 +0000

Information about the JAA’s 25 October Jobs for JAGs program is available here. You can now register here.

Among the program’s highlights, Supreme Court Clerk William K. Suter will be the luncheon keynote speaker.

The cost of the program is $60.

Jobs for JAGs program on 25 October

Dwight Sullivan — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 13:57:43 +0000

The Judge Advocates Association will present this year’s Jobs for JAGs program on 25 October. More information is available here. The luncheon speaker will be the always enlightening and entertaining Major General Bill Suter, Clerk of the United States Supreme Court.

CAAF orientation scheduled for 7 September

Dwight Sullivan — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 22:02:37 +0000

Each year, CAAF Clerk Bill DeCicco presents an orientation for new counsel. Despite that description, I attend every year. And I learn something new every year. This year will be no exception; I’ll be there at 1000 on 7 September.

Details of the program are available here.

CAAF posts impressive schedule for 9-10 March Judicial Conference

Dwight Sullivan — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 20:50:10 +0000

The schedule for this year’s CAAF Judicial Conference, which will be held 9-10 March at Catholic University’s law school, is now available here. And it’s quite an impressive lineup, including Andrew Pincus on SCOTUS litigation, Professor Douglas Berman on child pornography law, General Chiarelli on judge advocates’ role, Peter Grande on DOD confinement (would it be too tacky if I asked him to sign my copy of his book?), and Professor Stephen Gillers on legal ethics.

History of USDB lecture

Dwight Sullivan — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 21:49:09 +0000

On St. Patrick’s Day 2011, USDB Chief of Staff Peter Grande will be giving a lecture about the history of the USDB at 1900 at Fort Leavenworth’s post museum. I understand from someone who has heard Mr. Grande lecture that he’s quite good. We previously noted Mr. Grande’s recently published collection of photographs and captions about the history of the USDB.

Awesome appellate advocacy symposium

Dwight Sullivan — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 22:05:23 +0000

This year’s JAA/CAAF appellate advocacy symposium promises to be off-the-charts fantastic. With only one exception (moi), the line-up is comprised of true all stars.

The first substantive lecture will be by Professor Steve Saltzburg, whose Military Rules of Evidence Manual most of us use everyday. He’ll be providing an update about civilian courts’ crim law and crim procedure cases that we should know about. Then Rear Admiral Nan DeRenzi, the Deputy Judge Advocate General of the Navy, will be speaking about appellate practice in the military. And she’s one of us — a Code 45 alumna. Next will be Acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal, known to many of us as the result of his incredible advocacy in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld. There will be a working lunch with Major Jay Thoman from TJAGLCS giving a specially tailored presentation on ethics for appellate practitioners. I’ll then give a barking mad lecture on legal research. That will be followed by a panel of CCA judges. And the day will close with Chief Judge Sentelle of the D.C. Circuit lecturing on persuading appellate judges.

The program will be a week from today at GMU’s law school in Room 121. It isn’t often that one sees CLE with speakers of the caliber that have been assembled for this session (overlooking the one dubious slot). BZ to course coordinator CPT Joshua Johnson of Army GAD!

Online registration is available here.

CAAF/JAA Appellate Advocacy Symposium

Dwight Sullivan — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 02:37:08 +0000

This year’s CAAF/JAA Appellate Advocacy Symposium will be held next Friday, 15 October, at George Mason University’s law school. Online registration is available here.

Fulton Conference materials

Dwight Sullivan — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 21:58:34 +0000

Every year, the military justice system’s appellate judges gather for the William S. Fulton, Jr. Appellate Military Judges Conference. This year, with commendable openness, ACCA’s website has posted the conference materials here.

Upcoming Jobs for JAGs program

Dwight Sullivan — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 01:55:43 +0000

The Judge Advocates Association is accepting reservations for the Jobs for JAGs program here. The program will be held on 21 September from 0800 to 1700 at the Army Navy Country Club in Arlington. A brochure for the program, which costs $45 for those who register by 7 September, is available here.

Upcoming events

Dwight Sullivan — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 22:59:41 +0000

On 21 September, from 0800 to 1700, the Pentagon Chapter of the FBA will host its Jobs for JAGs program at the Army Navy Club in Arlington.

On 15 October, the Judge Advocates Association and CAAF will hold this year’s Appellate Advocacy Symposium from 0800 to 1700 at the George Mason University School of Law. Some information about the program is available here.

JAA Awards Dinner

Dwight Sullivan — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 03:14:40 +0000

The JAA will hold its annual awards dinner on 13 May at the Army Navy Country Club in Arlington. Registration information is available here.

For obvious reasons, the presentation of the Robinson O. Everett Distinguished Life Service Award will be particularly poignant this year. Who better to receive it than the universally respected and admired Brigadier General John S. Cooke, USA (Ret.)? Other honorees include the Honorable Patrick E. Higginbotham and Air Force Chief Trial Judge Colonel Dawn Eflein.

And speaking of the JAA, the organization’s web site now has a snazzy new look here.

[Disclosure: I'm on the JAA's board of directors.]

End o’ CAAF oral argument season reception docketed

Dwight Sullivan — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 02:30:13 +0000

This year’s end o’ oral argument season reception at CAAF has been docketed for 1500 on Wednesday, 19 May.

CAAF’s judicial conference schedule online

Dwight Sullivan — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:35:41 +0000

The schedule for CAAF’s 10-11 March Judicial Conference is now online here. This lecture from 0930 to 1030 on Wednesday, 10 March looks particularly fascinating: The Honorable Togo D. West, Jr., Protecting the Force: Lessons from Fort Hood, Report of the DOD Independent Review.

CAAF Judicial Conference speakers

Dwight Sullivan — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:33:17 +0000

CAAF will hold its annual Judicial Conference on 10 and 11 March at the Catholic University’s Columbus School of Law. A list of confirmed speakers is on CAAF’s web site. The two biggest names are DOD General Counsel Jeh Johnson and former Secretary of Veteran Affairs and former Secretary of the Army Togo West, who recently co-chaired the DOD review panel examining the Fort Hood shootings, and former Senator Chuck Hagel, co-chairman of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board. Here are the other confirmed speakers:

John Abele, co-founder of Boston Scientific

Georgetown Law Professor Jane Aiken

Kenneth Feinberg, Speial Master for TARP Executive Compensation and former Special Master for the 9-11 Victim Compensation Fund

Chief Judge Steven McAuliffe of the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire

Robert Poole, author of a recent book about Arlington National Cemetery

Kiam Taipale, executive director of the Stillwell Center for Advanced Studies in Science and Technology Policy

James Tierney, director of the National State Attorneys General Program

JAA/CAAF Appellate Advocacy Symposium Agenda

Dwight Sullivan — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:40:27 +0000

Here’s a link to the agenda for the 16 October 2009 JAA/CAAF Appellate Advocacy symposium.

Mark your calendar (if you already have a 2010 calendar, which I don’t, or if you’re proficient with Outlook’s calendar feature, which I’m not)

Dwight Sullivan — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 02:11:34 +0000

CAAF’s Judicial Conference will be held 10 and 11 March 2010.

2009 Appellate Advocacy Symposium

Dwight Sullivan — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 21:31:26 +0000

CAAF and the Judge Advocates Association will host the 2009 Appellate Advocacy Symposium on 16 October at the George Mason University School of Law. The cost is $50, which includes lunch and refreshments.

I’m excited about attending because the headliner is Thomas C. Goldstein of Akin, Gump’s Supreme Court practice. Mr. Goldstein is also, of course, the co-founder of SCOTUSblog. Mr. Goldstein’s topic will be “Effective Oral Advocacy and Brief Writing.”

Brigadier General John Cooke (Ret.) will be giving a lecture called “The Legacy of Judge Robinson O. Everett.” Even if Mr. Goldstein weren’t speaking, this alone would make the conference worth the price of admission.

CAAF Clerk William A. DeCicco will be giving a lecture called, “Electronic Filing, Grostefon, and Other CAAF Practice Pointers.”

There will also be a demonstration and discussion of Case Management/Electronic Case Files, a panel discussion on “Practical and Ethical Issues for Appellate Government and Appellate Defense Counsel” and the annual panel of CCA judges.

Registration info will soon be available on JAA’s web site, www.jaa.org.

Upcoming memorial session for Judge Everett

Dwight Sullivan — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 21:26:04 +0000

Today’s CAAF orientation was very informative — as each of the last three years’ sessions have been. One piece of information to emerge from the orientation is that CAAF will hold a memorial session in honor of Judge Everett on 7 December.

NIMJ program on Denedo

Dwight Sullivan — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 01:59:12 +0000

On 22 September 2009 from noon through 1330, NIMJ will host a panel discussion on United States v. Denedo, 129 S. Ct. 2213 (2009), at the American University’s Washington College of Law. The panelists will be Yale Law Professor Gene Fidell — one of Denedo’s counsel — Pratik Shah of the S.G.’s office — who argued the case for the United States — and moi. (Which one of these is not like the others? I have no idea how I got invited to play on this panel, but I’m glad I did.) Professor Stephen Vladeck of the Washington College of Law will be the moderator. And as if that’s not enough, there will be free chow.

Here’s a link to a flyer for the program, including RSVP information.

Upcoming Air Force TJAG CLE

Dwight Sullivan — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 02:44:38 +0000

On 1 and 2 October, the Judge Advocate General of the Air Force will present a CLE conference at the George Mason School of Law in Arlington, Virginia. The program is open to active duty, reserve, and retired personnel, as well as to civilian attorneys. The program’s cost is $35, payable by 15 September. Requests for CLE credit should be submitted by 10 August.

If anyone is interested in attending, drop me an e-mail and I can get you contact info.

Cox Commission hearing web cast available

Dwight Sullivan — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:04:00 +0000

NIMJ has posted links to the web cast of the Cox Commission’s 16 June public hearing here.