[Ecommerce] ABA Business Law Section instructions re UCITA

[Manon Anne Ress]

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ABA Business Law Section Directs Its Delegates to Try to Delay Vote on UCITA

The American Bar Association's Business Law Section has directed its 
delegates to the ABA House of Delegates to move to delay a vote on a 
resolution that would give the ABA's approval for the Uniform Computer 
Information Transactions Act to be submitted to state legislatures for 
adoption.

Instructions handed down by the Business Law Section Council direct its 
delegates to move to delay the UCITA vote at the Feb. 10-11 ABA midyear 
meeting, to be held in Seattle. Alternatively, the delegates are 
directed to vote against the UCITA resolution.
[SNIP]
..the section is not advocating an anti-UCITA position. However, it is 
not prepared to give the ABA's stamp of approval to UCITA at this time.
[SNIP]
                  UCITA 'Put on Probation.'
At its 2001 annual meeting, NCCUSL leadership defeated a movement to 
downgrade UCITA from a uniform act to a model act and asked for one more 
year to try to get the ABA's approval and to try for additional 
enactments in state legislatures. So far it has been enacted only in 
Maryland and Virginia.
[SNIP]
However, Levin, a delegate from another ABA section, expressed his 
skepticism over the future of UCITA even if it manages to win the vote 
in Seattle.
Levin told BNA that given the level of controversy over UCITA since it 
was first completed in 1999, it seems unlikely that it would be passed 
in pristine form by state legislatures.
[SNIP]

http://www.law.upenn.edu/bll/ulc/ucita/2002final.htm.
The text of NCCUSL's report to the ABA House of Delegates is available 
at http://www.nccusl.org/nccusl/ucita/UCITA_Report_to_ABA.pdf.
Documents produced by the UCITA Standby Committee are available at 
http://www.nccusl.org/nccusl/ucita/UCITA_Standby_Comm.htm.

The House of Delegates' agenda is available at the Web site of the 
American Bar Association, 
http://www.abanet.org/leadership/agenda2003.pdf.End of article graphic

By Anandashankar Mazumdar
Copyright © 2003 by The Bureau of National Affairs, Inc., Washington D.C.
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