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...Cooksey suffered visibly from the trouble. In Texas, Cooksey is permitted to practice law on the side, and uses his county-paid secretarial help and office (in a building owned by Friedman). Last year, in a guardianship matter tossed his way by a friendly judge, Cooksey netted a $22,000 fee; that reflected, he said, 440 hours of work, equivalent to 3% months of full-time work. He continued to receive his full $26,100 annual district attorney's salary, of course, which helped pay for a $38,000 private airplane and a private deer-hunting lodge. Sabo, incidentally...
Kenneth F. Maclver, a teaching fellow in Law, wrote the fictitious case, a review of the constitutional validity of a state statute which permits probate courts to give parents guardianship of children influenced by fringe religious groups, such as the Unification Church...
...year-old Ames contest pits third-year law school students in arguments over fictional cases based on actual cases involving constitutional issues. This year's Ames competition will address the issue of the guardianship of a minor who has left her family to join a religious sect...
This year, the case before the Ames Court deals with the guardianship of a 16-year-old woman who left her family for two years to join a religious group...
...parents maintain that she was coerced, and a lower court awarded them guardianship of the woman. The woman, along with her church, is challenging this ruling as an infringement of her constitutional right to freedom of religion...