THE FEDERALIST SOCIETYS Civil Rights Practice Group and its San Diego Lawyers Chapter
PRESENT A PANEL DISCUSSION ON:
"The Constitution and The Boy Scouts: Equal Access to Government Land and the First Amendment
On May 18th, the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy will present a debate and discussion called "The Constitution and The Boy Scouts: Equal Access to Government Land and the First Amendment." The program will be in San Diego, venue of important litigation between the ACLU and Boy Scouts of America.
A panel of leading contitutional scholars including Dean Kenneth Starr of Pepperdine University School of Law, and Prof. Vikram Amar of Hastings College of Law will face off.
The panel will debate and discuss the Boy Scouts' access to government land following the Supreme Court of the United States' 2000 decision in Boy Scouts of America v. Dale. The panel will focus on the recent litigation involving leases of parkland in Balboa Park and Mission Bay Park by the City of San Diego to Boy Scouts. The panel of experts will discuss this and other cases as well as federal and state constitutional issues.
- Professor Alan Brownstein, University of California Davis School of Law
- George Davidson, Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP
- Professor John Eastman, Chapman University School of Law
- Eric Isaacson, Lerach Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins
- Dean Kenneth Starr,Pepperdine University School of Law
- Dean Daniel Rodriguez, University of San Diego Law School (moderator)
Wednesday, May 18, 2005 12:00 p.m. 2:00 p.m. Wyndham San Diego at Emerald Plaza 400 West Broadway San Diego, CA 92101 There is no cost for this event Lunch will be served
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