Students to argue Supreme Court cases
An audience at Chadron State College will serve as judge when seven U.S. Supreme Court cases are argued by students this week.
“An Evening of Supreme Court Case Arguments” will be 7-8:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 3, in the Chicoine Atrium of the Sandoz Center.
The event, which is open to the public free of charge, will feature arguments by the 14 students of the CSC constitutional law class, taught by Dr. George Watson.
Each student will present a five-minute argument based on U.S. Supreme Court briefs filed by the actual parties in the case. Audience members will be equipped with remote control devices to vote on the cases, and the results will be shown using the Student Response System Technology.
Following is information about each case and the students who will argue the opposing viewpoints:
Safford v. Redding (Strip search of a high school student) Melissa Lohr of Eaton, Colo., and Donna Legas of North Platte
Arizona v. Gant (Search of autos incident to arrest) Lily Amare of Ethiopia and Raymond Doud of Rapid City, S.D.
United States v. Stevens (Animal cruelty videos ban) Trent Ginsbach of Buffalo, S.D., and Darren Willett of Chadron
Morse v. Frederick (Suppressing student speech) Autumn Fessler and Riley Northrup, both of Hot Springs, S.D.
Salazar v. Bueno (Cross on public land) Jacob Schwanke of Alliance and Dean Fankhauser of Chadron
Graham/Sullivan v. Florida (Life sentence for juveniles) Taylor Ziolowski of Custer, S.D., and Allen Mintzmeyer of Alma
McDonald v. Chicago/Heller v. Washington, D.C. (Gun ban) Svyatoslav Kustovinov of the Ukraine and Kelsey Weber of Rapid City, S.D.
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