*** MEDIA ADVISORY ***
ATTORNEY GENERAL AND SOLICITOR GENERAL TO SPEAK AT THE
FEDERALIST SOCIETY TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY GALA

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Attorney General John Ashcroft will address the Twentieth Anniversary Gala of the Federalist Society on THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2002 at 7:00 p.m. EST. Solicitor General Ted Olson, the Honorable Robert Bork, Secretary Gale Norton, Secretary Spencer Abraham and the Honorable Antonin Scalia will speak following the Gala Dinner. The Federalist Society's 2002 Convention will be held at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C. on November 14 -16.

WHAT:Attorney General John Ashcroft & Solicitor General Ted Olson's

Address to the Federalist Society's Twentieth Anniversary Gala

WHEN: THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2002

7:00 p.m. EST - Attorney General Ashcroft

Following Gala Dinner -Solicitor General Olson

WHERE: The Mayflower Hotel

Grand Ballroom

1127 Connecticut Avenue NW

Washington, D.C. 20036

NOTE: Interested media can contact Monica Goodling in the Justice Department's Office of Public Affairs at (202) 305-5875.

For on-site media logistics for the Convention and the Gala Dinner please contact Lisa Budzynski with the Federalist Society at (202) 257-9494.

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