NEWS> Ucita Withdrawn From Aba Agenda Without Action
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NEWS: Ucita Withdrawn From Aba Agenda Without Action
Ucita Withdrawn From Aba Agenda Without Action
Press Release
<http://www.nccusl.org/nccusl/DesktopModules/NewsDisplay.aspx?ItemID=44>
Monday, February 10, 2003 A resolution concerning the Uniform Computer
Information Transactions Act (UCITA) which was before the American Bar
Associations governing body, the House of Delegates, was withdrawn today
without consideration or substantive debate by the President of the
National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws (NCCUSL).
K. King Burnett, NCCUSL President and the organizations representative to
the House, withdrew the resolution approving UCITA, citing requests by a
number of ABA sections and leaders to defer an extensive debate on the
floor over the substantive merits of the Uniform Act. "For over a century,
NCCUSL and the ABA have worked together to advance the state of the law.
Consistent with our usual practice, we have presented the merits and
substance of UCITA to the ABA. When it became evident that a clear
consensus on the act was unlikely to emerge, we were advised by a number
of ABA Section officers and other leaders that the members of the House of
Delegates would prefer not to take a formal position on UCITA, for or
against, at this time. We withdrew the act from consideration in response
to this advice."
UCITA, which has generated unusually vigorous debate for a NCCUSL act,
would create a standard framework of rules, closely modeled after the
Uniform Commercial Code, applicable to software and other computer
information licensing transactions. It was significantly amended by NCCUSL
in 2002 in response to substantive recommendations made by a Working Group
on UCITA appointed by the ABA. UCITA has been enacted in Maryland and
Virginia, and is under consideration for introduction in a number of
additional states in the 2003 legislative session.
The National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws is now in
its 112th year. The organization comprises more than 300 lawyers, judges,
and law professors, appointed by the states as well as the District of
Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, to draft proposals for
uniform and model laws and work toward their enactment in their
legislatures. Since its inception in 1892, the group has promulgated more
than 200 acts, among them such bulwarks of state statutory law as the
Uniform Commercial Code, the Uniform Probate Code, and the Uniform
Partnership Act.
For further information, please contact Michael Kerr, John McCabe or Katie
Robinson at NCCUSLs offices in Chicago at 312-915-0195.
Sincerely,
David Dillard Research Librarian
david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
ECP RingLeader
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/ringleaders/davidd.html
Temple University
(215) 204 - 4584
jwne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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