UI Law Students Compete in Eighth Annual McNichols Moot Court Competition Feb. 20
Tuesday, February 16 1999
Feb. 16, 1999^^MEDIA CONTACT: Joanne Buteau, University Communications and Marketing, (208) 885-6476 or jbuteau@uidaho.edu. STORY CONTACT: LeAnn Phillips, College of Law, (208) 885-5817^The University of Idaho College of Law will hold its eighth annual Raymond C. McNichols Moot Court Competition, Saturday, Feb. 20 at 3 p.m. in the Law School Courtroom. The public is invited to attend.^^Two UI law student finalists will argue the case "Sedwick v. Estate of Jack Williams," which involves the question of whether the duty of a Catholic priest to report child abuse under a state reporting statute violates the First Amendment. ^^The panel of judges who will hear this year's competition are: Justice Jesse R. Walters, Jr., Idaho Supreme Court, Boise; Judge Faye Collier Kennedy, Washington State Court of Appeals, Olympia; Judge Larry M. Boyle, U. S. Magistrate, Boise; Judge J. Kelley Arnold, U. S. Magistrate, Tacoma; and attorney Michael McNichols, a practicing attorney from Lewiston and son of the late Judge Raymond C. McNichols, for whom the competition is named.^^The winner of the competition will receive a plaque and a monetary prize.^^To make the final event, second-year law students had to write briefs and argue cases in several weeks of preliminary competitions. Semi-finals were conducted in oral elimination rounds. Faculty members and community legal practitioners judged eight semi-finalists: Sandra Baumberg, Kevin Belew, Pat Braden, Summer Emmert, Mark Monson, Matt Pappas, Laura Thompson and Charles Waddams. ^^The annual competition is named in honor of the late Raymond C. McNichols, U.S. District Judge for the District of Idaho. Judge McNichols was a highly respected jurist and a distinguished alumnus of the UI College of Law. In 1984, he received the Outstanding Federal Trial Judge Award presented by the Association of Trial Lawyers of America. McNichols died in 1985.^^- 30 - jb-2/16/99--LAW^
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