| 7:30 a.m. | Registration |
| 8:00 a.m. | Welcome
Pat Groshong, Chair, Media & the Law Committee, Assistant Vice President, Media/Professional Insurance, Kansas City, Mo.
Seminar Moderator: Mike Kautsch, Professor, Media, Law & Policy, Kansas University School of Law, Lawrence, Kan. |
| 8:15 a.m. |
Nalts Video
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| 8:20 a.m. | Panel 1. When Judges Attack! The Implications of Defamation Actions by Judges Against the Media
- Moderator: Barbara W. Wall, Vice President/Associate General Counsel, Gannett Co., McLean, Va.
- Chief Justice Laura Denvir Stith, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Missouri, Jefferson City, Mo.
- Michael Avery, Professor, Suffolk University Law School, Boston, Mass.
- Bruce W. Sanford, Partner, Baker & Hostetler, Washington, D.C.
- Steven P. Mandell, Partner, Mandell Menkes, Chicago, Ill.
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| 9:15 a.m. | Q & A |
| 9:30 a.m. |
Nalts Video |
| 9:35 a.m. | Panel 2. Right of Publicity: How Celebrities and Nobodies Try to Restrict (or Cash in on) Speech
- Moderator: Steven Contopulos, Partner, Sidley & Austin, Los Angeles, Calif.
- Guylyn Cummins, Partner, Sheppard Mullin, San Diego, Calif.
- Barry Langberg, Partner, Stroock Stroock & Levan, Los Angeles, Calif.
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| 10:30 a.m. | Q & A
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| 10:40 a.m. | Break
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| 11:00 a.m. |
Nalts Video
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| 11:05 a.m. | Panel 3. Ethics—Do Judges Have First Amendment Rights? Judicial Canons as Vehicles to Curtail Speech
- Moderator: Mike Kautsch, Professor, University of Kansas Law School, Lawrence, Kan.
- The Hon. Deanell Reece Tacha, Chief Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit, Denver, Colo.
- The Hon. Janet Berry, Judge, Second Judicial District Court, State of Nevada, Reno, Nev.
- Judge Robert H. Alsdorf (Ret.), Partner, Davis Wright Tremaine, Seattle, Wash.
- Paul Watler, Partner, Jackson Walker, Houston, Texas
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| Noon | Q & A
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| 12:10 p.m. |
Lunch—Luncheon Address: Ted Rall |
| 1:30 p.m. |
Nalts Video |
| 1:35 p.m. | Panel 4. Shield Wars: Is a Reporter’s Privilege Really Necessary?
- Moderator: Lucy Dalglish, Executive Director, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, Arlington, Va.
- Judith Miller, Adjunct Fellow, Manhattan Institute (formerly ofThe New York Times ), New York, N.Y.
- Lee Levine, Partner, Levine Sullivan Koch & Schulz, Washington, D.C.
- Walter Pincus, National Security Correspondent,
The Washington Post , Washington, D.C.
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| 2:30 p.m. | Q & A |
| 2:40 p.m. | Break |
| 3:00 p.m. | Introduction |
| 3:05 p.m. | Panel 5. "You’ll Speak When We Tell You To Speak"—Executive Branch Constraints on Free Speech
- Moderator: Brant Houston, James L. Knight Foundation Chair in Investigative and Enterprise Reporting, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Ill. Former Executive Director, Investigative Reporters and Editors
- Valerie Plame Wilson, Santa Fe, N.M., former CIA agent, author of Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House, and plaintiff in Wilson v. McConnell (S.D.N.Y., 2007), opposing CIA censorship
- David B. Smallman, Partner, Wollmuth, Maher & Deutsch, New York, N.Y.
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| 4:00 p.m. | Q & A |
| 4:10 p.m. | Closing Remarks |
| 4:15 p.m. | Adjourn |
4:30 p.m.–
6:30 p.m. |
Beer and Wine reception sponsored by ABA TIPS
Media, Privacy and Defamation Law Committee at the InterContinental rooftop lounge
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