The School of Law will host a special session of the Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, from 9:30-11 a.m. in the Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom in Anheuser-Busch Hall.
The panel of judges will hear oral arguments in three cases: Joanne Zacharewicz et al. v. Sarah Hanley et al., a property dispute over fences in a subdivision; BMK Corp. v. The Clayton Corp., a contract dispute that resulted in a $1.2 million jury verdict; and State of Missouri v. Ervell Hoover, the criminal appeal of a father convicted for his role in the shooting death of his daughter’s abusive husband.
The judges on the panel are the Honorable Booker T. Shaw, the Honorable Lawrence E. Mooney and the Honorable Patricia L. Cohen. The attorneys for the cases will have about 15 minutes each to argue their sides. A Q&A on judicial procedure and an informal Q&A on judicial clerkships will follow, ending at about 11:30 a.m.
The court periodically holds sessions in law schools as part of an educational program.
To limit the amount of disturbances to the proceedings, visitors are asked to enter and exit the courtroom only during breaks between each attorney’s oral argument.
Case briefs for the oral argument session will be on temporary reserve in the law school’s library.
For more information, call 935-6430 or go online to law.wustl.edu.