BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 13.3//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Eastern Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20231102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Eastern Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20230301T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:Eastern Daylight Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:When: Thursday\, November 8\, 2018 \; 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p .m. Location: \; Social Law Library\, Boston\, MA Program Fee: $25 CPCS approved for 2.0 hours of credit from CAFL. \nLegislative history is a critically important advocacy tool in Federal Court when statutory l anguage is ambiguous and begs for clarification. Federal judges invite and apply the use of legislative history to avoid incongruous results\, illum inate drafting errors\, determine specialized meanings\, or choose reasona ble interpretations of politically controversial statutes. \nIn these and other instances\, Congress&rsquo\;s intent must be inferred from the statu te&rsquo\;s legislative history\, which successful advocates must stitch t ogether from a variety of sources including: \n&bull\; The text of the bil l and proposed amendments that were accepted or rejected\n&bull\; Transcri pts of hearings conducted by Congressional committees responsible for the bill\n&bull\; Committee reports written about the bill Transcripts of Ho use and Senate floor debates related to the bill \;Alex Philipson\, wh o has taught classes in appellate writing at New England Law Boston and No rtheastern University Law School\, and Senior Reference Attorney Brian Har kins will show the &ldquo\;how&rdquo\; and &ldquo\;where&rdquo\; to find a nd interpret these and other sources of legislative history. \nThis progra m will teach advocates the research skills necessary to reconstruct a stat ute&rsquo\;s legislative history for use in pleadings\, briefs and oral ar guments. Online registration is encouraged. For assistance\, questions on group discounts\, accommodations requests\, special billing\, program cont ent\, out-of-state CLE credits\, and general CLE information contact Micha el Saporito at 617-226-1343 or msaporito@socialaw.com. Space is limited. R egistrations accepted in order of receipt. Same day registrations are $5.0 0 extra. Registration fees are non-refundable. Registrants for this progra m acknowledge that during the program their photographic or videographic i mages may be incidentally taken\; registrants agree that the submission of their registrations for this program constitutes their written consent to the Social Law Library&rsquo\;s use of any such image in print and online materials solely for promotion of the Library&rsquo\;s noncommercial CLE seminars and other educational events and activities. DTEND:20181108T170000Z DTSTAMP:20240328T113602Z DTSTART:20181108T150000Z LOCATION: SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:FEDERAL LEGISLATIVE HISTORY - 2018 UID:RFCALITEM638472081627087354 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
When:
strong>Thursday\, November 8\, 2018 \; 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Location: \; Social Law Library\, Boston\, MA
Program Fee: $25
\nLegislative history is a critically
important advocacy tool in Federal Court when statutory language is ambigu
ous and begs for clarification. Federal judges invite and apply the use of
legislative history to avoid incongruous results\, illuminate drafting er
rors\, determine specialized meanings\, or choose reasonable interpretatio
ns of politically controversial statutes.
\nIn these and other
instances\, Congress&rsquo\;s intent must be inferred from the statute&rs
quo\;s legislative history\, which successful advocates must stitch togeth
er from a variety of sources including:
\n&bull\; The text of the bill and proposed amendments that were accepted
or rejected
\n&bull\; Transcripts of hearings conducted by Congressi
onal committees responsible for the bill
\n&bull\; Committee reports
written about the bill
Transcripts of House and Senat
e floor debates related to the bill \;Alex Philipson\, who has taught
classes in appellate writing at New England Law Boston and Northeastern Un
iversity Law School\, and Senior Reference Attorney Brian Harkins will sho
w the &ldquo\;how&rdquo\; and &ldquo\;where&rdquo\; to find and interpret
these and other sources of legislative history.
\nThis program
will teach advocates the research skills necessary to reconstruct a statu
te&rsquo\;s legislative history for use in pleadings\, briefs and oral arg
uments.