court battles

Just came back from court. The "Supreme Court" that is. :)

We had to argue on behalf of the "Santa Fe Independent School District" that their policy allowing for non-sectarian and non-proselytizing (I actually had to look up these words...) benedictions and invocations does not violate the Establishment Clause and the Free Speech Clause in the First Amendment. I had 5 minutes. Wasn't enough obviously. They said we did a good job, with my co-counsel, Mr Eishi Takahasi. Even though the "presiding judge" was biased against us, he used to try civil rights litigation cases arguing for the plaintiffs.

Good exercise, though.