{"id":563,"date":"2015-10-07T08:35:44","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T12:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/colorandmoney\/"},"modified":"2015-10-07T09:24:14","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T13:24:14","slug":"round-7","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/colorandmoney\/simulation\/round-7\/","title":{"rendered":"round 7: debate legal briefs on Lattimore v. The College"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four legal teams will publicly debate their &#8220;friend of the court&#8221; briefs regarding\u00a0the case of Jean Lattimore vs. The College, to improve their arguments for their final drafts.<\/p>\n<p>The case:\u00a0Jean Lattimore, who was not offered admission\u00a0by the Admissions Committee, has brought a discrimination lawsuit against The College and argues that:\u00a0a) The College offered admission to racial minorities\u00a0who had lower academic qualifications than the plaintiff, a white student; and\u00a0b) the plaintiff&#8217;s constitutional rights under the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment were violated because The College treated\u00a0him differently than other applicants based on their\u00a0race.<\/p>\n<p>Team 1: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cir-usa.org\/\">Center for Individual Rights<\/a>: advocates for color-blind admissions<\/p>\n<p>Team 2: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.naacpldf.org\/\">NAACP Legal Defense Fund<\/a>: advocates for color-conscious admissions<\/p>\n<p>Team 3: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcf.org\/experts\/detail\/richard-d.-kahlenberg\">Richard Kahlenberg<\/a>, The Century Foundation: advocate for class-based affirmative action<\/p>\n<p>Team 4: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/faculty\/cashin-sheryll-d.cfm\">Sheryll Cashin<\/a>, Georgetown University: advocate for place-based affirmative action<\/p>\n<p>Format:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Opening arguments: Up to 4 minutes per legal team, but no more than one minute per person. All members of the team must participate.<\/li>\n<li>Rebuttals: Teams may directly challenge any\u00a0other team&#8217;s arguments for 1 minute each, with a 1 minute response.<\/li>\n<li>Direct questioning of legal team by judges (time at their discretion)<\/li>\n<li>Closing arguments: Up to 2 minutes for representatives of each legal team to restate their strongest arguments.<\/li>\n<li>Judges will break for deliberations, then announce the most persuasive legal team.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four legal teams will publicly debate their &#8220;friend of the court&#8221; briefs regarding\u00a0the case of Jean Lattimore vs. The College, to improve their arguments for their final drafts. The case:\u00a0Jean Lattimore, who was not offered admission\u00a0by the Admissions Committee, has brought a discrimination lawsuit against The College and argues that:\u00a0a) The College offered admission to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/colorandmoney\/simulation\/round-7\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">round 7: debate legal briefs on Lattimore v. The College<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":90,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/colorandmoney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/563"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/colorandmoney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/colorandmoney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/colorandmoney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/colorandmoney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/colorandmoney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2319,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/colorandmoney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/563\/revisions\/2319"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/colorandmoney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/90"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/colorandmoney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}