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Stewart, Carrico, Trayner
Judge Moot Court Contest

By Alan Featherstone
Cavalier Daily Staff Writer

Round six of the annual Lile Moot
Court competition will be held on May 1
at the University's law school.

The law students competing have won
the first three rounds of competition
which took place last year and have won
the fourth and fifth rounds which took
place this year. The sixth round marks
the final round of the two year
competition.

The competition is essentially a mock
court case in which University law
students participate. The case is hypothetical.

This year the case involves the right of a 57
year-old man to the use of an artificial kidney
machine. The machine is owned by a state
university and is given for use upon application
of the patient. In this case 18 patients applied
for the use of one kidney machine.

The old man is denied the use of the
machine and disagrees with the state's criteria
in judging who should be able to use the
machine. He contends that the use of the
machine is allocated due to non-medical
criteria. Several criteria include the patient's
ability to pay, his benefit to society upon
rehabilitation, and his being a resident of that
state.

There will be three eminent men of the legal
profession who will judge the competition.
Judge Roger Trayner, former Chief Justice of
California and visiting professor of law at the
University's law school, will judge along with
Justice Carrico of the Virginia Supreme Court
of Appeals, and Justice Stewart of the United
States Supreme Court.

Also, on April 10 the finals of the annual
quadrangular meet will be held at the law
school. The University will oppose the University
of Pennsylvania in an anti-trust court case.
The main judge for this competition will be
Clement Haynsworth, Chief Judge of the Fifth
Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond,
Virginia.

Both these competitions will be open to the
public.