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Student News Minnesota Law Wins Thurgood Marshall Memorial Moot Court Competition for First Time in History Two teams of Minnesota Law students performed exceptionally well at the 2021-22 Thurgood Marshall Memorial Moot Court Competition in March. Both teams advanced to the quarterfinal rounds and one team won the national competition for the first time in Law School history. The competition is organized by the Federal Bar Association. It is a national competition of 40 teams from law schools from around the country.
! (Left to right) Hannah McDonald, 2L, Joe Hamaker 3L, Kylee Evans, 2L, and Hannah Fereshtehkhou, 3L # (Left to right) Lauren O’Donnell, 3L, Tim Miles, 3L, Erik Thorsheim, 2L, Paige Haller, 3L, Edmund Pine 3L, and Mia Branca, 3L
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The team advancing to the quarterfinals was composed of Kylee Evans, 2L and Joe Hamaker, 3L. Evans had a strong showing in the Clary Cup oral argument tournament as a 1L. Hamaker competed on the team for the second consecutive year, advanced to the quarterfinals for the second year, and also served as both a managing and student director for Civil Rights Civil Liberties Moot Court. The team that prevailed in the final round was composed of Hannah McDonald, 2L, and Hannah Fereshtehkhou, 3L. McDonald won best oralist for the final round and was the runner-up in last year’s Clary Cup. Fereshtehkhou won the best oralist in last year’s Civil Rights Civil Liberties oral argument tournament and served as a student director this year. The students were coached by two Minnesota alums. Sara Gurwitch, ’95, competed on the team as a student. Connor Shaull, ’20, was a member of the National Moot Court Competition Team.
Minnesota Law Teams Do Well in William E. McGee Civil Rights Moot Court Competition Two teams of Law School students performed exceptionally well at the 2022-23 William E. McGee Civil Rights Moot Court Competition for the second consecutive year. One team advanced to the quarterfinals, one team won best brief, and an individual student won best oralist in the through the quarterfinals for the second consecutive year. The team advancing to the quarterfinals was composed of Tim Miles, 3L, Lauren O’Donnell, 3L and Edmund Pine, 3L. Miles won best oral advocate through quarterfinals round for the second consecutive year. O’Donnell is a student director in Civil Rights Civil Liberties Moot Court and was nominated to the 2020-21 Best Brief competition. Pine is also a veteran of Civil Rights Civil Liberties Moot Court. The team that won best brief was composed of Mia Branca, 3L, Paige Haller, 3L, and Erik Thorsheim, 2L. Minnesota Law Students Help Immigration Client Prevail in 6th Circuit Case Minnesota Law students working through the Federal Immigration Litigation Clinic (FILC) helped win a decisive second victory allowing a man to reunite with family in the United States and potentially sparing others from unlawful repeated removal actions in a key procedural ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. The Sixth Circuit’s opinion in Jasso Arangure v. Garland serves as a significant check on federal prosecutorial power in administrative immigration proceedings, according to assistant visiting professor of clinical law Nadia Anguiano-Wehde ’17.
