Equity Tops Law For Ames Crown

Associate Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter LL.B. '06, presided over the "United States Court of Appeals for the Ames Circuit" last Wednesday evening in the final round of the Ames Competition, with Casner Equity Club beating Casner Law. The case concerned the appeal of a federal employee discharged under the loyalty review program.

Second year law students from eight clubs will face each other in the quarterfinal Ames competitions on April 7, 9, 14, and 16.

Oliver S. Oldman and Julian H. Singman of Equity argued for the plaintiff, "Dr. Mildred Rothrock," a psychiatrist employed at the Veteran's Administration hospital in "Langdell, Ames."

"Dr. Rothrock" had been declared disloyal and suspended from her position. The only charge made against her was that she was a member of the Communist party and of an organization on the Attorney General's subversive list.

Though she had been allowed to produce witnesses in her behalf and to appear before various loyalty review boards, she was not permitted to confront her accuser or to cross-examine him.

Oldman and Singman contended that the failure to confront "Rothrock" with particular charges was a violation of the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment. Murray Drabkin and Robert I. H. Hammerman of Casner Law argued that the loyalty review program was constitutional and that the discharge of "Dr. Rothrock" was in accord with the law.