First Amendment Rights Moot Court
The mock appellate hearing was based in part on a real Washington, DC case in which a libel suit was brought against a columnist by a Marxist college professor who claimed an article by the columnist was false and defamatory and cost him an appointment to chair his school’s political science department.
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia (Harvard Law, 1960) sat on a three-judge panel hearing the fictitious case of Fletcher v. Hermann. The mock… read more
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia (Harvard Law, 1960) sat on a three-judge panel hearing the fictitious case of Fletcher v. Hermann.
The mock appellate hearing was based in part on a real Washington, DC case in which a libel suit was brought against a columnist by a Marxist college professor who claimed an article by the columnist was false and defamatory and cost him an appointment to chair his school’s political science department. close
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