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FBA Newsletter Fall 03 FALL 2003 FEDERAL BAR ASSOCIATION of the Western District of Washington NEWS NEWS NEWS NEWS VOL. 26 NO. 2 FALL 2003 JUDGE BARBARA JACOBS ROTHSTEIN TAKES THE REINS AT THE FEDERAL JUDICIAL CENTER FEDERAL BAR ASSOCIATION NEWS PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE IMPROVING LEGAL REPRESENTATION FOR THE POOR e all know that the needs of Washington's poor people for legal representation in civil matters are not being Wmet. The Washington State Bar Association estimates that low-income persons experience more than 400,000 instances of unmet legal needs each year in this state. Moreover, over the past decade and more, funding cuts at the national level have weakened programs that provide civil legal aid to the poor. I would like to extend the Association's thanks to the members of the Task Force, who include a number of prominent local In 2002, then-President Jim Smith • Recruiting more attorneys to practitioners and Janet Bubnis of the established the Task Force on the participate in the bankruptcy Clerk's office, for their contributions in Availability of Legal Services for Low- assistance program and other pro creating the Task Force's report. In Income Litigants in Federal Court to bono projects. explore the nature of this problem and particular, Michele Gammer provided her what might be done about it. The Task • Expanding the existing Pro Bono usual exemplary and persistent Force, led by Michele Gammer, issued Panel program, including by having leadership, and Scott Collins authored a its report at our October quarterly Board the Pro Bono Committee consider detailed and compelling memo that of Trustees meeting. The report augmenting the categories of cases provided significant raw material for the identifies significant gaps in the that can be assigned to panel report. I ask the Association's members availability of civil representation for the attorneys to include social security to support efforts to implement Task poor in federal cases in our District. The appeals and other matters in which Force recommendations, so that we can report's findings tell me that a dearth of pro se filings have increased. move closer to having a federal civil legal advocates to provide assistance in system that lives up to its ideals with significant civil disputes is undercutting • Enhancing the availability of regard to equal representation for the some of the fundamental assumptions mediation as an option in cases poor. When the phone call comes asking behind our adversarial legal system. involving pro se litigants. you to pitch in, please make your reaction a quick "yes." The Task Force made a series of In response to the Task Force's report, recommendations for addressing this the Board has asked the Pro Bono Finally, I wanted to note that Judge problem. Those recommendations Committee to begin coordinating all of Thomas S. Zilly will be taking senior include: the Association's pro bono efforts, and status next year. While the passage of to draft a work plan for implementing time inevitably brings changes, the good • Recruiting more attorneys to many of the Task Force's news is that we don't need to fear participate in the Pro Bono Panel. recommendations. The Board will also missing Judge Zilly's presence on the For nearly 20 years, our work to increase Pro Bono Committee bench, since he will continue with a full Association's Pro Bono Committee membership, in order to provide support caseload for some time. Still, it does has maintained this Pro Bono Panel for the Committee's new tasks and to make me feel older. of volunteer attorneys who screen refresh the ranks of those involved in the Thank you for your support for the litigants' requests for appointment Pro Bono Panel. We hope to receive a Association's activities this year. I look of counsel in civil rights and prisoner proposed work plan and take additional forward to seeing you at our Annual CLE cases, and has recruited attorneys actions to implement various Task Force and Dinner on December 10. willing to accept court appointment recommendations at our quarterly in cases that pass through the meeting in January 2004. Kevin D. Swan screening process. 2 FALL 2003 FEDERAL BAR ASSOCIATION of the Western District of Washington NEWS NEWS NEWS NEWS In this issue: President’s Message ...................................................................... 2 Bon Voyage and Hurry Back: Judge Barbara Jacobs Rothstein Heads to D.C. .................................................4 Ninth Circuit Task Force to Study Federal Sentencing Guidelines ..................................................................6 What the Public Doesn’t Know Can Hurt ......................................8 U.S. Supreme Court to Decide Landmark Free-Exercise Case ................................................................... 10 Notice of Annual Meeting ............................................................ 14 Registration Form ........................................................................ 15 On the cover: The Thurgood Marshall Federal Judiciary Building in Washington, D.C., home of the Federal Judicial Center. Photograph by Jeff Goldberg of Esto Photographics. The Federal Bar Association News is a semi- annual publication of the Federal Bar Association of the Western District of Washington. Comments and proposed articles should be addressed to: Duncan Manville Riddell Williams P.S. 1001 Fourth Avenue Plaza, Suite 4500 Seattle, WA 98154-1065 (206) 624-3600 3 FEDERAL BAR ASSOCIATION NEWS BON VOYAGE AND HURRY BACK: JUDGE BARBARA JACOBS ROTHSTEIN HEADS TO D.C. By Daniel H. Royalty Preston Gates & Ellis L.L.P. e are lucky to have Judge Barbara Jacobs Rothstein in the Western District. Or rather, we were lucky. Judge WRothstein recently moved to Washington, D.C., to serve as Director of the Federal Judicial Center. We can hope that she will promptly return to the Western District when she steps down as the Center's director. If she is as keen and conscientious in her direction of the Center as she has been on the bench, though, we shouldn't be surprised if Judge Rothstein is asked to stick around D.C. for a while longer. FROM BRIGHTON TO A LKI attorney, could not convince her to remain Governor. Regardless, by that time she Judge Rothstein was a Brooklyn public in private practice. Instead, she signed had caught the attention of Governor school kid. She grew up on Pembroke on with the newly formed Consumer Dixy Lee Ray, who appointed her to one Street near Brighton Beach, attending Protection Division of the Washington of the new judgeships. P.S. 195, P.S. 225, and Lincoln High State Office of the Attorney General. Judge Rothstein barely had time to warm School. Even after she toured the Ivy She established a storefront office in the the Superior Court bench before her League, getting a bachelor's in Central District. Although she was name was submitted by Senator Henry philosophy from Cornell and her law initially the office's only lawyer, the office "Scoop" Jackson for one of the newly degree from Harvard, Judge Rothstein quickly grew to meet its mission of created judgeships in the U.S. District went back to her Brooklyn roots. She providing representation and advice to Court for the Western District of married Ted Rothstein, a Brooklynite low-income residents. One of Judge Washington. She was nominated by who just happened to have attended the Rothstein's notable successes during her President Carter, breezed through her same public schools as the Judge. time with the Consumer Protection Division was the Attorney General's win confirmation hearing, and assumed the It is Ted whom we have to thank for in State of Washington v. Ralph Article III judgeship in early 1980. bringing Judge Rothstein to Seattle. Williams' North West Chrysler Judge Rothstein has since presided over After graduating from Harvard, Judge Plymouth, Inc.1 That case laid important many high-profile cases. She was the Rothstein joined the Boston law firm of groundwork for application of the newly- first District Court judge to consider the Widett & Kruger as an associate. Ted, enacted Washington Consumer federal statute banning flag burning, while in residency at the University of Protection Act. which she struck down as Washington Hospital, wooed the Judge unconstitutional in United States v. and convinced her to join him in Seattle. ON THE BENCH Haggerty.3 In Watkins v. United States The two married shortly thereafter. In 1977, Judge Rothstein decided to run Army,4 she ruled that the Army could not for one of five newly-created King prevent a sergeant from re-enlisting Upon arriving in Seattle, Judge Rothstein County Superior Court positions. Her because of his admitted homosexuality. interviewed with the "usual suspect" list campaign was cut short by Fain v. And in Compassion in Dying v. of private law firms. But even Judge Chapman,2 which held that the new Washington,5 she held that Washington's Dwyer, at the time still a practicing judges had to be appointed by the ban on assisted suicide violated the U.S. 4 FALL 2003 Constitution. That case garnered a great job to make sure it works properly. There of national prominence: the Director of deal of national attention, and ended with are always going to be bizarre jury the Federal Judicial Center. The Center's the Supreme Court overturning an en verdicts, but they shouldn't come from a Board, which is responsible for banc Ninth Circuit opinion that had lack of understanding. appointing the Director, is chaired by affirmed Judge Rothstein's decision. Chief Justice William Rehnquist. Judge Judge Rothstein is proud that the judges Rothstein was nominated by the Board The national legal community has taken of the Western District have been "quietly and assumed the directorship in the fall note of Judge Rothstein's judicial implementing" improvements to help of 2003. acumen. In 1993, near the end of her jurors understand the cases before them. tenure as Chief Judge of the Western One of those improvements is providing Judge Rothstein is the ninth Director of District, she was rumored to be on written instructions to the jury.
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