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2006 Jerome Prince Memorial Evidence Competition
April 6-8, 2006

The University of Georgia defeated Cleveland Marshall College of Law in the final round of the 2006 Jerome Prince Memorial Evidence Competition. Semi-finalists included Pace University and American University. DePaul University School of Law won the best brief award. University of Georgia wrote the second best brief in the competition and Cleveland Marshall College of Law the third best brief. The Best Oralist awards went to the University of Georgia, Chicago Kent School of Law and Cory S. Simmons of Florida Coastal School of Law.

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The Case:
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Plaintiff's Exhibit A-1
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Rules*

Brief Certification Form*

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Now in its 21st year, the Jerome Prince Memorial Evidence Competition is the premier national appellate advocacy competition that focuses on issues of evidence. Thirty-five teams from law schools across the country argued the case over the course of the three-day competition.

The case involved a drug manufacturer whose top-selling sports supplement resulted in highly adverse side-effects. In an effort to keep lawsuits and bad publicity at bay, the manufacturer destroyed all records relating to the side effects. The plaintiff, a teen athlete who was injured by the supplement, did not have a case without the manufacturer’s records, until an anonymous employee blew the whistle on the drug maker and disclosed all she knew to a journalist, who included the information in her investigative story. The plaintiff also inadvertently received a confidential interoffice email between the company’s executives that supports his case. The crux of the case was whether the court could compel the journalist to disclose her confidential source and whether the email that the plaintiff inadvertently received was protected by the attorney-client privilege.

The final round judges were Judge Douglas Ginsburg of the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, Judge Susan Phillips Read of the New York Court of Appeals, and Judge Robert D. Sack of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.

For more information about the Jerome Prince Memorial Evidence Competition, please contact the 2007 competition coordinator, Althea Bender at althea.bender@brooklaw.edu.

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