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University of Michigan Law School University of Michigan Law School Scholarship Repository Res Gestae Law School History and Publications 1989 Vol. 37, No. 25, April 12, 1989 University of Michigan Law School Follow this and additional works at: http://repository.law.umich.edu/res_gestae Part of the Legal Education Commons Recommended Citation University of Michigan Law School, "Vol. 37, No. 25, April 12, 1989" (1989). Res Gestae. Paper 296. http://repository.law.umich.edu/res_gestae/296 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Law School History and Publications at University of Michigan Law School Scholarship Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Res Gestae by an authorized administrator of University of Michigan Law School Scholarship Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. L I ,... For Rent: 725 S. State Street. Good Ventilation. Vol. 3 7 No. 2 5 The University of Michigan Law School Ap ril 12. 1989 Bazany, Lattin, Hammer Win Campbell Competition By Ellen Marks Second Circuit. and Judge Kenneth W. The opportunity to see well-prepared ·cases are won on the merits [not on Winners of the Sixty-Fifth Annual Starr. of the United States Court ofAppeals advocates argue before a knowledgeable litigating strategy} If the judges are in fact Henry M. campbell Competition were for the D.C. Circuit, represented the fed bench was not lost on the students who doing Uleir jobs,· he added. announced on Monday. after four teams eral judiciary In heartng the arguments. attended. "I wish this had taken place Dean Bollinger also complimented the made final arguments. MichaelA. Bazany. Judge Starr is about to become the next before we had to do our case club oral student competitors. stating that "it make Jr. and Margaret A Lattin. representing Solicitor General of the United Slates. arguments.· commented frrst-year Kathryn those of us on the faculty who see you the United States, and Peter Hammer. also The adjudicating panel also included Dessayer. perform very proud of our student body.· representing the United States. took first Dean Bollinger and Professors Jerold Is· A closed reception and banquet fol ~inety-three students had originally place in the competition. The teams of rael and Samuel Gross. lowed the final arguments on Monday entered the quarter-final round of the Mark E. Boulding and Robert E. MaJch The teams argued the validity of a eve rung. competition. while 27 students represent man. and ofJ osephS. Berman and Martha government freeze on the assets ofa doctor In a speech during the banquet. Judge ing 16 teams advanced to the semi-final LeeJames, finished second. Approximately who had been indicted by a grand jwy for Starr acknowledged that the fmal argu round. The quarter-finals required sub 300 people attended the arguments. the illegally selling prescription drugs. The ments were "the culmination and consum misslonofabriefwllli a 10-page argument. culmination of a year-long event. freeze made it impossible for the doctor to mation ofan extraordinary amount ofwork. • while later rounds allowed a 25-page argu A distinguished panel of judges. in· pay the attorney of her choice to represent He addressed the current state of the menL \ited by Dean Bollinger. heard the final her In her upcoming criminal trial. The legal profession. ·our profession . .. has The S. Anthony Benton Awards for presentations in the competition. Mr. John doctor was the petitioner in the case. while been under considerable criticism ... for a best briefs were also given at the banquet. H. Pickering, a senior partner in the Wash the United States was the respondent. substantial period of time .... I am corning Jerry Decker and Charles McPhedran won ington. D.C. law finn of Wilmer. Cutler & The two questions argued were whether to the view that much of the criticism of the for best brief submitted in the quarter-final Pickering, presided over the court. Picker legitimate attorney fees are e.xempted from profession Is misguided.· round. while MlchaelBazany and Margaret ing is a graduate of Michigan Law School. criminal forfeiture under the Comprehen Judge Starr also addressed the impor Lattin won the award for the semi-final and, according to Dean Bollinger. "proba sive Forfeiture Act, and whether restraint tance of hones ty when facing the bench. round. bly its mos t loyal alumnus." and forfeilure of attorney fees violates the "The sole thought I want to leave you with The Henry M. Campbell Competition is Judge Arnalya L. Kearse. a U-M law U.S. Constitution. The constitutional tonight [Is} the virtue of candor," he said, supported by the Detroit law firm of Dick school graduate who Is now sitling on the question was added to the competition complimenting the competitors on their inson. Wright. Moon. VanDusen & Free United States Court of Appeals for the during the semi-final round. responsiveness to questions from the bench. man. Edwards Condemns Racism in A Farewell to Staffers This issue of TheResGestaeends our Heading the graduation list ts J ohn I American Sports publication for this academic year. It also "Jocko" Kn appmann. Jocko served the By Clinton Elliott values. marks the last issue for our third year ~tali RC as Managing Ed.ltp~ (or tile 1988 calen members. Therefore, we·d like to share dar year. Be&ldes adding new entries to Dr. Hany Edwards. a noted sports Edwards. who serves as a special as some parting words about them. the English language. Jocko lent both sociologist and professor ofsociology at the sistant to the ComrnlssionerofMajor League ntrwsp\\per C.'q?Cdence. gained while edi !:ni\·ersity of California at Berkeley. was at Baseball and a staff consultant to both the tor of (he Mc8ilgan Journal (U-M Dear the Law School last week to deliver three San Francisco Forty Niners and the Golden lectures entitled 1lle Politics and Econom State Warriors. charged that modem col born). and colorful ties to all around him. ics of Sports and Blac-k America.· lege athletics is a racially exploitative sys \HealSl)lson~ o{oprmp~t dlllgentdevotees <>f Dark Cas tle and :R9g.ue. Delivered in the wake of Mlchigan·s tem the consumes the talents and competi '•lctory in the NCAA Basketball Champion tiveness of black athletes in a modem day Don Wheaton has handled many as ship. Edwards spoke at length on the role "plantation system.· with blacks in pro signments at the RC. Reporter. colum- 1 rust. cartoonist. layout person. second of black athletes In American society and ductive roles and whites acting as overse baseman: Don approached whateverwork the relationship between sports and the ers and administrators. asked of hlnl cheerfully and skillfully. mtemational projection of soclo cultural In his first lecture. called "Sports, Poli Tim Connors has challenged all com- 1 tics and International Relations.· Edwards -, ers with hts crossword puzzles the last two 1 sought to outline the evolution of political I considerations In international sports years. His quiet dependability was appre competition. He insisted that sports and ciated by students and many an editor. Lisa Batey wrote a great deal for the politics are indistinguishable at the inter RC her first two years at ~lchlgan. Her national level and that the Western coun good nature and front page stories will be tries have attempted to monopolize the remembered. projection of favorable images while deny Robert Malchman lent his insight. good Ing the role of politics in sports. humor and durable pitching arm to the RG According to Edwards. this contradic this year. When not hanging around with tion became unworkable when. in 1952. newspaper types. Robert spent his leisure the Soviet l.inion and the Eastern Bloc hours at the Journal ofLaw Reform states decided that they would advance l\e.xt year's crew \\ill once again ha\·e their political and ideological agendas Paul Czarnota as editor-in-chief. Lisa through excellence in international sports. J Greifenberg and Stephen Tsal return as plloto l>r Cll.otoll !l!Tott On the race issue. Edwards said that business manager and features editor, Harry Edwards. a sports sociologist and blackAmerican athletes began using sports respectively. Other positions ofgreat trust professor of sociology at Berkeley. makes as a forum to express their political con and responsibility will be decided upon as a point during a lecture In Hutchins Hall See SOCIOLOGIST, page SEVEN the fall semester commences. ~----------------------------- -----------~ The Re. Ge1tae - Apri112, 1989 - ~e two fidl%0" In CIVJ Pnl C:Uraota MtliVl(lfng f.dJur. J am .. B.tadei'IOD Blalne$S M~ Llaa Grcl/eDbuf NeLliS fidUDr. CllDtoD Elliott Asstltanl NCUIS f:dUors: Elkn MaW, EWIIce Parlr. Op(nlol\ fidUDr: Robert Goldbe'll f'eatUI'CS f:dUDr: 8tcphcD Tul SporU: Harold Billiter. Stne OIJoa /..aw In rhe Raw: Colla Zlclr.. Tom Putcraalr. Stqff: Paul Adclmu, Chuclr. Ba~~uorth, MoDica Bau.m, Amlt Bhan, J eaa Br<D.D&ll. Tim CoDDon, :foreen Date-Wurlclr.. Chrlatlu Drylle, Tony Ettoro, lnDDA OuapetiaJl, ltatblcea O.n!IAer, Seott Oe aJ!er. lllarlr. Gottlleb, J oclr.o KAappiii&AA. Anc!rcw Kolr.. LcooanlltuyYeahona. Robert Kalch.m&A. Klurcea KcAndrcw, MAry llofd'arlaad, Chr!J W:cGuln. CUfl W:oore, John Paaowtla•· Jerome I'!J1A, DoUf Poaeclr.. Usa IILI'fla, !:rie lhoclr.lcy, Due IIJaoa. Sarah &omen. Toay Twuldl. Doa Wheaton. Jill Whutoa. £rlk Johli.H!1- TM R<o c ...., 11 publ~ t.'WZ'f w~ c1urtr1 the o<hool 'fUl by •tuclm~ oC1b: t:n.""""Y ofYJ<h:pn lAw School. Opinlant ~ In byhoo! anldt.o art~!-. of thc authors and do n""...nly "11"""' thc optnJan of the cdltortai•IAlT. Suboa1pt!on pice• art 110 a acmatcr and 115 (or.