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August 18, 2008
Law-Schools Meeting Finds a Way to Deal With Boycott Threat
The Association of American Law Schools may have found a way out of a sticky situation. The association had contracted with the Manchester Grand Hyatt Hotel, in San Diego, several years ago to hold its annual meeting there next January. But The San Diego Union-Tribune reported in March that the hotel’s owner was a prominent contributor to an effort to amend the California Constitution to ban same-sex marriages, and several groups had threatened to boycott the meeting unless the association moved it to another hotel.
According to a statement adopted by its executive committee late last week, the association had also booked rooms at the San Diego Marriott, and the contracts left the choice of where to locate specific events — such as registration, an exhibit hall, and representatives’ meetings — up to the association. “We will honor our contracts with both hotels, and we have exercised our option to hold all AALS events at the Marriott to ensure the maximum participation by our members,” the statement reads.
The association plans to contact law schools and other groups that are scheduling events at the meeting about locations for those events. People attending the meeting, the statement says, “will soon receive housing information and you will be able to choose your individual hotel room on a first-come, first-served basis.” —Charles Huckabee
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A gutless, cowardly act.
— Anonymous Aug 19, 07:21 AM #
What the AALS failed to research is that the Marriott and Hyatt are BOTH owned by the same person!!! What an incompetent organization.
— anon Aug 19, 08:20 AM #
Doug Manchester owns the Marriott as well at the Hyatt!!!! http://www.dougmanchester.com/
— anon Aug 19, 08:23 AM #
Why is no one surprised?
— why Aug 19, 12:10 PM #
The AALS has a history of caving. See how they wilted when the feds threatened loss of funds for barring military recruiters at campus interview sites on account of “don’t-ask-don’t-tell.”
— Peter Aug 19, 12:14 PM #
AALS has a lame-duck executive director who announced his retirement a year ago. His replacement comes on board September 1. She will inherit this mess.
— Law Prof Aug 19, 01:38 PM #
Lawyers do not know how to reach a decision when it affects them.
— Joe the Screwed Aug 19, 01:58 PM #
When the AALS met in San Francisco in 2005, the headquarters hotel was being boycotted because it would not bargain fairly with its workers.
Only the Labor and Employment Law Section refused to use that hotel and instead took its meeting to a union friendly site. Many of the section members wrote protests to the AALS and refused to stay at the headquarters hotel.
— Law Prof II Aug 20, 07:39 PM #