United States Supreme Court
Term in Review

Please join the Houston Lawyers Chapter of The Federalist Society for our annual review of key cases decided during the United States Supreme Court's recently concluded 2012 Term. This year's panelists include:

The Honorable Edith Jones

United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

The Honorable Michael Massengale

First Court of Appeals of Texas

James Ho

Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP

Charles Eskridge

Susman Godfrey L.L.P.

The panelists will review these cases, among others: United States v. Windsor (DOMA), Hollingsworth v. Perry (Proposition 8), Shelby County v. Holder (Voting Rights Act), Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin (affirmative action in college admissions), Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics (patentability of genetic material), Vance v. Ball State University (defining "supervisor" for Title VII claims); Missouri v. McNeely (warrant to conduct blood alcohol test).

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Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Registration and Dinner Begin at 6:00 p.m.

Program Begins at 6:30 p.m.

BlackFinn American Grille, 1910 Bagby Street

$15 paid online in advance
$10 for government employees, paid online in advance

Please RSVP by Sunday, August 11.

Please click the link below to RSVP and pay in advance.

http://www.acteva.com//booking.cfm?bevaid=236470

Email RSVPs also accepted at houston.fed.soc@swbell.net.

CLE Credit Requested. Seating is limited.

"Marital Discord at the Court"

with

Ramesh Ponnuru
National Review senior editor, Bloomberg View columnist, AEI Visiting Fellow

Mr. Ponnuru will explore how same-sex marriage has moved so rapidly from inconceivability to seeming inevitability. He will examine both political and jurisprudential factors, and he will discuss the recent U.S. Supreme Court oral arguments.

Ramesh Ponnuru is a senior editor for National Review, a columnist for Bloomberg View, and a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. Ponnuru grew up in Kansas City and graduated summa cum laude from Princeton’s history department. Ponnuru has published articles in numerous newspapers including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, Newsday, and the New York Post. He has also written for First Things, Policy Review, The Weekly Standard, The New Republic, Reason, and other publications. He has appeared on numerous television news programs. He is the author of The Party of Death: The Democrats, the Media, the Courts, and the Disregard for Human Life. He is also the author of the monograph The Mystery of Japanese Growth (American Enterprise Institute/Centre for Policy Studies).

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Tuesday April 30, 2013 • 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP • 1111 Louisiana St, 44th Floor

$30 paid online in advance

$20 for government employees, paid online in advance

Please RSVP by Friday, April 26
Please click on the following link to RSVP and pay in advance:
http://www.acteva.com//booking.cfm?bevaid=235860
Email RSVPs also accepted at houston.fed.soc@swbell.net.
CLE credit requested. Seating is limited.

"Kill-Lists and Accountability"

with

Professor Gregory McNeal
Pepperdine University School of Law

Professor Krauss earned his B.A. cum laude from Carleton University, his LL.B. summa cum laude from the Université de Sherbrooke, and his LL.M. from Yale Law School, where he was a Commonwealth Scholar. He was Columbia University's Law and Economics Fellow in 1981. He has been teaching at George Mason since 1987 and also has taught at the law schools of Seattle University, the University of Toronto, and the Université de Sherbrooke. Professor Krauss teaches Torts, Legal Ethics and Jurisprudence, and h co-authored the first two editions of Legal Ethics in a Nutshell 2003 and 2006. Professor Krauss was on leave in 2010, spending this period as a Visiting Professor of Tort Theory at the University of Haifa Law School, at Princeton University as a Madison Fellow, and as a Visiting Professor at the Université de Paris/Sorbonne/Panthéon.

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Thursday March 28, 2013 • 7:45 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP • 1111 Louisiana St, 44th Floor

$10 paid online in advance

$5 for government employees, paid online in advance

Please RSVP by Tuesday, March 26
Please click on the following link to RSVP and pay in advance:
http://www.acteva.com//booking.cfm?bevaid=235440
Email RSVPs also accepted at houston.fed.soc@swbell.net
One hour of CLE credit has been requested.
Seating is limited.

Was Atticus Finch the Lawyer We Should All Strive to Be?

with

Professor Michael Krauss

George Mason University School of Law

Professor Krauss earned his B.A. cum laude from Carleton University, his LL.B. summa cum laude from the Université de Sherbrooke, and his LL.M. from Yale Law School, where he was a Commonwealth Scholar. He was Columbia University's Law and Economics Fellow in 1981. He has been teaching at George Mason since 1987 and also has taught at the law schools of Seattle University, the University of Toronto, and the Université de Sherbrooke. Professor Krauss teaches Torts, Legal Ethics and Jurisprudence, and h co-authored the first two editions of Legal Ethics in a Nutshell 2003 and 2006. Professor Krauss was on leave in 2010, spending this period as a Visiting Professor of Tort Theory at the University of Haifa Law School, at Princeton University as a Madison Fellow, and as a Visiting Professor at the Université de Paris/Sorbonne/Panthéon.

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Friday February 1, 2013 • 7:45 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Fel LLP • 1111 Louisiana St, 44th Floor

$10 paid online in advance

$5 for government employees, paid online in advance

Please RSVP by Wednesday, January 30
Please click on the following link to RSVP and pay in advance:
http://www.acteva.com//booking.cfm?bevaid=234888
Email RSVPs also accepted at houston.fed.soc@swbell.net
One hour of CLE Ethics Credit has been approved.
Seating is limited.

An Overview of Fisher v. University of Texas

with

Thomas R. McCarthy

Partner, Wiley Rein LLP

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear argument in Fisher v. University of Texas this week, October 10, 2012. The case, brought by undergraduate Abigail Fisher in 2008, asks that the court either declare the admissions policy of the University inconsistent with, or entirely overrule Grutter v. Bollinger, a 2003 case in which the Supreme Court ruled that race could play a limited role in the admissions policies of universities. An overruling of Grutter could end affirmative action policies in admissions at U.S. public universities.

Thomas R. McCarthy, a partner at Wiley Rein LLP in Washington DC, represents the plaintiff Abigail Fisher in this pending case. In addition to his extensive federal trial and appellate practice, he is co-director of the Supreme Court Clinic at the George Mason University School of Law. Mr. McCarthy previously served as a Law Clerk for the Honorable David B. Sentelle, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (2002-2003)

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Thursday October 18, 2012 • 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

The Houston Club • 811 Rusk

$35 paid online in advance

$20 for government employees, paid online in advance

Please RSVP by Wednesday, October 17
Please click on the following link to RSVP and pay in advance:
http://www.acteva.com//booking.cfm?bevaid=233695
Email RSVPs also accepted at houston.fed.soc@swbell.net.
CLE Credit Requested. Seating is limited.