Wabash College: Rhetoric 2000 Moot Court Crawfordsville, Indiana

2000 Moot Court

Overview

The legal issues raised by this year's Wabash College Moot Court Competition, which is written by alumni, concern the constitutionality of posting the Ten Commandments on a civic monument on the grounds of a city hall building. The problem is based on an Indiana case and a similar case in Kentucky, and references a statute permitting local Indiana governments to post the Ten Commandments if made part of an effort to educate the public on the influence of the Ten Commandments on the development of the state and federal Constitutions and other American jurisprudence.

Click here to view the case for this year or here for a copy of a memo on the competition from Wabash alumnus Matt Griffith of Thrasher, Griffith, and Voelkel. Click here for a hints sheet and there for the calendar.

This year the competition will be held on Saturday, October 21st with the finals round on Tuesday evening, October 24th.

Judges for the finals round include:

Dr. Paul McKinnney, Professor of Chemistry, Wabash College
Dr. James Bond '64, former Dean of the School of Law, Seattle University
The Honorable Brent Dickson, Indiana Supreme Court
The Honorable Patrick Sullivan, Indiana Court of Appeals