Word: law
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Climaxing a three year career of legal wrangling, the Powell Law Club defeated their sole remaining rival, the Simpson-Sayre Club, in the finals of the Ames Competition last night in the court-room of Langdell Hall before an audience of 500. Their victory brought with it a prize of three hundred dollars, while the runners-up received two hundred...
...Powell Club represented the fictitious Beal Distributing Co. in the suit brought against it by the Langdell Manufacturing Co. whose case the Simpson-Sayre Club presented. Counsel for Langdell maintained that their refusal to abide by the terms of the new Federal Wages and Hours Law did not constitute a breach of contract because the Law was unconstitutional...
...Columbia, Judge Walter E. Treanor of the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, and Judge John C. Knox of the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Their decision was awarded not on the basis of the actual constitutionally of the law, but rather because of the superior quality of the arguments and briefs presented by the Powell Club...
...competition is extremely important to the seniors who reach the finals, for the winners and runners-up are generally given a choice of positions with several of the nation's leading law firms...
...addition to those changes, one other substitution was occasioned by the sudden illness of Professor Edward H. Warren. His place in his two first year Property courses is being filled by Andrew Casner, a visiting lecturer at the Law School this year...