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Email CAPT Wright: SWright@roa.org
With 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. This Center, established June 1, 2009 will give us the opportunity to expand these services. ROA is the primary voice on Capitol Hill for these issues with this Law Center.
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SERVICES:
- The center will help formulate 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.
- As a center of excellence in the areas of legal research, appellate advocacy and continuing legal education (CLE) to attorneys and law schools, the ROA Law Center stands out as a unique operation among other national security focused advocacy groups on Capitol Hill.
- The center will coordinate the activities of lawyers and legal service providers who seek to help servicemembers in these areas of the law nationwide.
- The Center also will file amicus curiae (friend of the court) briefs on behalf of ROA in USERRA and SCRA cases that have national significance.
NEWS
Military Voting Rights Interview - Washington Times, October 23, 2009
CAPT Sam Wright, Servicemembers' Law Center Director, 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.
 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.
Read the full article
RESOURCES:
USERRA Law Review Basics: A brief powerpoint presentation outlining basic USERRA info and the subject index structure of the Law Review Library
Local military legal assistance: This web site will lead you (using your zip code) to the nearest military legal assistance office.
Fortune 500 Survey (pdf): ROA's annual survey of Fortune 500 companies Reserve policies
State Leave Laws: Research laws in your state.
ESGR: Employer Support for the Guard and Reserve
Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA) Training
USERRATraining.pdf [614 KB] provides the basic information to be used by Federal executive branch agencies in conducting training required by the Veterans Benefits Improvement Act of 2008, Public Law 110-389, regarding USERRA and Federal employment.
Law Center Military Voting Rights Newsletters 1 and 2
Newsletter 1, Volume 1, July 2009
Newsletter 2, Volume 2, August 2009
Newsletter 3, October 2009
Newsletter 4, November 2009
Newsletter 5, November 2009
Newsletter 6, December 2009
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In 1994, Congress enacted USERRA, codified in title 38, United States Code, sections 4301 through 4335 (38 U.S.C. 4301-4335). It is the law that protects the civilian job rights of veterans and members of the National Guard and Reserve. USERRA protects them from discrimination and gives them the right to reemployment in their civilian jobs after voluntary or involuntary military service. USERRA is more important than ever, as more than 700,000 National Guard and Reserve personnel have been mobilized since September 2001.
Captain Samuel F. Wright, JAGC, USNR (Ret.) is one of the foremost experts on USERRA. He worked for 10 years as a U.S. Department of Labor attorney during which time he and Susan M. Webman drafted the interagency product that eventually became USERRA.
For ROA, Captain Wright has been the primary author of over 500 law review articles, mostly pertaining to USERRA, that have been published by ROA in The Officer magazine and posted to the ROA web site at www.roa.org/law_review.
 Visit the Law Review Library for a comprehensive list of Law Reviews primarily on USERRA and other topics affecting the Reserve Components.
ANNOUNCEMENT:
ROA Establishes Servicemembers Law Center (June 1, 2009)
WASHINGTON -- The Reserve Officers Association of the United States established a law center benefiting service men and women and serving as a resource of expertise for legislators and policy makers on Capitol Hill today.
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