SABA Luncheon

The San Antonio Bar Association's February luncheon will take place Thursday at the Plaza Club (in Frost Bank Tower).

U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth, a San Antonio native, will speak at the gathering. It should be interesting.

Among other things, the District of Columbia judge presided over Cobell v. Kempthorne, a class action case in which Native American plaintiffs sued the government for mismanaging an indian trust. His various opinions in that case lambasted the government, as this Mother Jones article from 2005 points out.

He also found that Iran was to blame for the 1983 Marine barracks bombing in Lebanon, ordering the nation to pay the Marines' families billions in damages.

Should be an interesting talk.