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Daniel F. Attridge (left), dean of the Columbus School of Law at Catholic University of America, and Jan Neuharth (right), chair of the Freedom Forum, with first-place Moot Court winners from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York.
Students at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York took top honors March 19 at the 2016 Seigenthaler Sutherland Cup National First Amendment Moot Court Competition in Washington, D.C.
The two-day competition, co-sponsored by the Newseum Institute’s First Amendment Center and the Columbus School of Law at The Catholic University of America, featured 24 teams of students from law schools across the United States arguing a hypothetical First Amendment case in front of a panel of distinguished judges.
This year’s competition was the debut of a combination of two previous Moot Court contests. The Newseum Institute’s First Amendment Center has sponsored a national First Amendment moot court competition for 26 years named for John Seigenthaler, the founder of the Newseum Institute’s First Amendment Center.
The Columbus School of Law has hosted the Sutherland Cup competition since its inception in 1950. The competition was named for Supreme Court Justice George B. Sutherland, an ardent defender of the U.S. Constitution who served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1922 to 1938.
A team from Cardozo School of Law won the national competition in 2005, when it was conducted at the Newseum Institute’s John Seigenthaler Center in Nashville, Tenn., in partnership with Vanderbilt University School of Law.
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Here is a complete list of this year’s competition winners, runners-up and judges:
Winner
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, New York City
Runner-up
South Texas College of Law
Semi-finalists
George Washington University School of Law, Washington, D.C.
Temple University School of Law, Philadelphia
Winner
George Washington University School of Law
Runner-up
South Texas College of Law
Winner
Andrew Bellis, Duke University School of Law, Durham, N.C.
Runner-up
Ashwin Shandilya, University of Virginia School of Law, Charlottesville