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ABOUT:


W
ith the heavy reliance on Reserve and Guard members in today’s fight, ROA sees many challenges with laws affecting part-time warriors. Employers need educating, citizen warriors need advocates, and laws need to be improved. For many years ROA has been the leader in providing these services to citizen warriors. The Service Members Law Center, established June 1, 2009, gives ROA the opportunity to expand these services.  

Services

  • Formulates legislation and military policy regarding legal issues of importance to members of all branches and components of the Armed Forces of the United States, with particular emphasis on the Uniformed Servicemembers Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA), the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (SCRA), and military voting rights.
  • Provides a center of excellence in the areas of legal research, appellate advocacy and continuing legal education (CLE) to attorneys and law schools. 
  • Coordinates the activities of lawyers and legal service providers who seek to help service members in these areas of the law nationwide.
  • Files amicus curiae (friend of the court) briefs on behalf of ROA in USERRA and SCRA cases that have national significance.

NEWS:
Let my people vote: Don’t let the DOJ make service members wait another 58 years
By
Capt. Samuel F. Wright, JAGC, USN (Ret.)
DailyCaller.com, August 5, 2010
In the 2008 general election, as in all other recent elections, a substantial minority (in some places a majority) of the military personnel who tried to vote by absentee ballot were disenfranchised through no fault of their own.
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ROA Submits Brief to Supreme Court for USERRA Case

CAPT Sam Wright submitted an amicus curiae ("friend of the court") brief to the Supreme Court today in support of petitioner Vincent E. Staub in the case Staub v. Proctor Hospital. Staub is the Court's first ever case dealing with the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994
(USERRA).
arrow_right_red Read the brief
arrow_right_red Read the law reviews about the case: 0922, 0922 Update
arrow_right_red Read the original press release

CAPT Wright Interviewed on 'Of Consuming Interest'
CAPT Sam Wright was interviewed on the radio program Of Consuming Interest with Jim Turner July 2. He discussed over the course of an hour veterans' rights and service members' voting rights.
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Military Voting Rights Interview

Washington Times, October 23, 2009
CAPT Sam Wright was recently interviewed by John McCaslin and Melanie Morgan on America's Morning News about Military Voting Rights issues. The 10 minute audio interview is available here in mp3 format.
arrow_right_red Military Voting Rights Interview (MP3)

Some Military Personnel Denied Fair Chance to Vote
HumanEvents.com, October 20, 2009
By Samuel F. Wright
It is shameful that many counties in the Commonwealth of Virginia have neglected or chosen to not give Virginians serving away from home a fair chance to vote this year.
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RESOURCES
 

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CAPT Sam Wright, Service Members Law Center director, has authored and co-authored over 500 law reviews on areas of law affecting citizen warriors. The Law Review Library contains the law reviews organized chronologically and by subject index.

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State Leave Laws
As a service to all serving Citizen Warriors, the Service Members Law Center has compiled
individual states' laws concerning military leave for public employees.

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ROA Current Issues
arrow_right_red USERRA
arrow_right_red SCRA
arrow_right_red Education Benefits
arrow_right_red All Current Issues

Other Resources

arrow_right_red USERRA Law Review Basics: A brief PowerPoint presentation outlining basic USERRA information and the subject index structure of the Law Review Library.
arrow_right_red State Leave Laws: Research laws in your state.
arrow_right_red Fortune 500 Survey: ROA's annual survey of Fortune 500 companies Reserve policies.
arrow_right_red Local military legal assistance: This website will lead you (using your zip code) to the nearest military legal assistance office.
arrow_right_red ESGR: Employer Support for the Guard and Reserve


Captain Samuel F. Wright, JAGC, USN (Ret.)
Director, Service Members Law Center
(800) 809-9448, ext. 730
Email: swright@roa.org

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