State high school teams set to compete in annual State Bar Mock
Trial Tournament this weekend
February 7, 2001
After months of preparation, area high school students are gearing up
for the regional round of the State Bar of Wisconsin's Mock Trial
Tournament this weekend.
The tournament is being held at sixteen different regional sites this
Saturday, February 10th, including Eau Claire, Wausau, Green Bay,
Wisconsin Rapids, Appleton, La Crosse, Madison, Sheboygan, Janesville,
Milwaukee, Hudson, Rhinelander, Fond du Lac, Waukesha, Racine and
Sturgeon Bay.
The winning team from each regional will move on to the tournament
semifinals in Madison on Sunday, March 11th. The finals will be held
Monday, March 12th at the Wisconsin Supreme Court, and the state
champion will represent Wisconsin at the National Mock Trial Tournament
in Omaha, Nebraska in May.
This year's case involves a lawsuit by the parents of a high school
student who died after an illness he contracted shortly after swimming
in a nearby creek. The parents are suing a sheep and cattle company that
operates near the creek for wrongful death, claiming the water in the
creek was polluted by the company's runoff from animal waste and
officials from the company knew or should have known about the pollution
and did nothing about it.
For more information, contact any of the participating schools, or
call Dee Runaas at the State Bar of Wisconsin at (608) 250-6191, or
e-mail her at drunaas@wisbar.org.
You can also get more information about the mock trial tournament at
www.legalexplorer.com/education/education-mock.asp.
