[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 5]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 6340]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




       HONORING UNIVERSITY OF PACIFIC McGEORGE SCHOOL OF LAW TEAM

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                            HON. JEFF DENHAM

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                         Friday, April 15, 2011

  Mr. DENHAM. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to again acknowledge and honor 
a University of Pacific McGeorge School of Law team that participated 
at the American Bar Association National Appellate Advocacy 34th annual 
competition held April 7-9, 2011, at the U.S. District Courthouse for 
the Northern District of Illinois in Chicago.
  The team of Caitlin Urie Christian, '11, Jill Larrabee, '12, and Leo 
Moniz, '12, advanced to the round of 16 and took ninth place. They also 
won the Best Brief Award; an outstanding accomplishment in its own 
right, considering over two hundred teams participated in the 
competition.
  The competition involved two issues this year: whether a pre-
enforcement challenge under the First Amendment is ripe for judicial 
review and whether a state statute, passed as a means to tackle a 
crystal methamphetamine epidemic, is constitutional under the Supreme 
Court's commercial speech jurisprudence.
  They were coached by Professors Ed Telfeyan, '75, and Erich Shiners, 
'06, and assisted by Andrea Dupray, '11, a member of the 2009-2010 Moot 
Court Honors Board.
  Previously the winners of a similar award in the San Francisco 
regional, this time the writing of Christian, Larrabee and Moniz faced 
an entire new battery of graders who read all 24 briefs for the finals 
in Chicago. To put the award in perspective, their work was judged the 
best out of 217 teams competing nationally.
  Mr. Speaker, please join me in honoring the students and coaches from 
McGeorge School of Law on their outstanding performance at the 2011 
regional competition in San Francisco and at the national finals in 
Chicago. I'm pleased to honor their hard work and dedication to the 
study of the law.

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