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<\/a>\u201cMoot Court required a lot of preparation, but overall it was an opportunity I am very glad Mr. Priest presented us with,\u201d Holly Lawson said.<\/p>\n
This competition required that each team write a brief for its side, and that both the appellee and the appellant side give an oral argument in Columbus.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis competition required the learning of many new concepts, which many seniors are resistant to at this point of the year,\u201d senior Amanda Clay said. \u201cOnce we did the work and went to the competition, I was very glad I was able to participate and represent my school and I really enjoyed it.\u201d<\/p>\n
The results of the competition were released following the competition. \u00a0The team consisting of Clay, Hayley Walker, Meredith Arn, and Claire Gamble finished in eighth place. A second team comprised of Holly Lawson, Daniel Patterson, Kaitlynn Hall, and Lexi Meyers placed 11th at the state Moot Court Competition.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am glad I had the opportunity to do Moot Court this year,\u201d Claire Gamble said. \u201cI learned a lot about case law and learned how to apply it into other settings. \u00a0This really helped me learn how courts work and learn more about our government.\u201d<\/p>\n
Priest said he was glad this program was introduced in Ohio this year and was eager for his class to get involved. \u00a0Priest helped in preparation for the competition and helped the entire class develop the concepts and skills needed to succeed at the competition. \u00a0Priest also led this same class to the runner-up position at the \u201cWe The People\u201d competition earlier this fall.<\/p>\n
\u201cMoot Court is nothing like Mock Trial,\u201d Priest said. \u201cI was so very humbled at the depth and difficulty in writing legal briefs.\u00a0 We would not have been successful, if were not for the help of local attorney Kelly Rauch (Diller and Rice Law Firm).<\/p>\n
\u201cKelly was outstanding; she gave hours of valuable time and even met with us on the weekend,\u201d Priest added. \u201cI was so very impressed with our students. Having never done this, I was not sure what to expect.\u00a0 Our kids were awesome!<\/p>\n
\u201cThe work they did is typically done in law school,\u201d Priest went on to say. \u201cTheir level of reading comprehension, critical thinking skills and logical reasoning are the skills employers are searching for.\u201d<\/p>\n
It is not every day that teenagers are asked to argue a murder case in the Ohio Supreme Court, but Van Wert students were given this opportunity and excelled. The Moot Court competition will continue to grow in future years and students of VWHS will continue to represent the community in a positive way through great programs like this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
AUDREY NICOLAI\/special to the VW independent COLUMBUS — Students in Van Wert High School\u2019s AP Government class represented their school well at the first Moot Court Competition held in Ohio May 20 at the Ohio Supreme Court. \u00a0Eight students in Bob Priest\u2019s class volunteered to be on a team where they had the opportunity to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-19 20:58:13","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}