{"id":2175644,"date":"2024-02-13T20:13:02","date_gmt":"2024-02-14T01:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/american-bar-association-asks-federal-judiciary-to-drop-court-appointed-master\/"},"modified":"2024-02-13T20:13:02","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T01:13:02","slug":"american-bar-association-asks-federal-judiciary-to-drop-court-appointed-master","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/american-bar-association-asks-federal-judiciary-to-drop-court-appointed-master\/","title":{"rendered":"American Bar Association asks federal judiciary to drop \u2018court-appointed master\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Famerican-bar-association-asks-federal-judiciary-to-drop-court-appointed-master%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2175644&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The American Bar Association is asking the federal judiciary to stop using the term \u201ccourt-appointed master\u201d because \u201cmaster\u201d has masculine connotations and invokes slavery.<\/p>\n<p>    \u201cCourt-appointed neutral\u201d is the preferred term of the ABA, which told the federal judiciary\u2019s Advisory Committee on Civil Rules that \u201cmaster \u2026 refers to one (male) person who has control or authority over another; and the most obvious example of that is slavery.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>    Courts typically appoint a \u201cmaster,\u201d also known as a \u201cspecial master,\u201d to oversee certain aspects of litigation and often to mediate issues between parties.<\/p>\n<p>    \u201cAlthough no one suggests that the use of \u2018master\u2019 in court settings was intended to have a negative meaning, \u2018master\u2019 carries an extremely negative connotation in situations involving power relationships,\u201d the ABA\u2019s Monday letter states.<\/p>\n<p>    The letter pointed to several other professions that have suggested getting rid of \u201cmaster,\u201d like \u201cmaster sommelier\u201d in wine, \u201cmaster bedroom\u201d in real estate, and \u201cheadmaster\u201d in education.<\/p>\n<p>    Maryland, Delaware, and Pennsylvania have already nixed using the term \u201cmaster,\u201d where Maryland and Delaware opted for \u201cmagistrate,\u201d and Pennsylvania started using \u201chearing officer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>    CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/p>\n<p>    The ABA believes its term, \u201ccourt-appointed neutral,\u201d more accurately described the role of the appointee because \u201cwhere the term \u2018master\u2019 suggests someone brought in to adjudicate, court-appointed neutrals are a multipurpose tool that could be used for quasi-adjudicative work, but could also be used for facilitative, investigative, intermediary, informatory, administrative, monitoring, implementing or various other purposes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>    The Advisory Committee is meeting on April 9, where it could consider the change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Bar Association is asking the federal judiciary to stop using the term \u201ccourt-appointed master\u201d because \u201cmaster\u201d has masculine connotations and invokes slavery. \u201cCourt-appointed neutral\u201d is the preferred term of the ABA, which told the federal judiciary\u2019s Advisory Committee on Civil Rules that \u201cmaster \u2026 refers to one (male) person who has control or<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":179,"featured_media":2175645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/iStock-1351883275-scaled.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2175644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/iStock-1351883275-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2175644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/179"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2175644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2175644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2175645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2175644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2175644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2175644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}