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Grade 8's Study of Constitution Culminates with a Moot Court Exercise in a Federal Court House

Grade 8's study of the Constitution culminated in a moot court exercise at the Daniel Patrick Moynihan United States Courthouse. Students spent weeks studying Supreme Court cases that define the parameters of the 4th Amendment, protection against unreasonable search and seizure. With briefs and questions they wrote themselves, the students entered the federal courthouse to become lawyers and justices, arguing a case in which public school students argue that their constitutional rights were violated when school administration searched their cell phones and backpacks, and found evidence of criminal behavior.