Brennan Court Gives Coveted Ames Prize to Casner Club

William J. Brennan, Jr., Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, presided over the three-judge court last night which unanimously awarded the Law School's annual Ames Competition to the Casner Law Club.

The final argument of the two-year competition was "Chamberlin vs. The Dade County Board of Public Instruction," which concerns religious observances in public schools.

The court of Brennan, Nathan L. Jacobs of the New Jersey Supreme Court, and Wade A. McCree, Jr. of the U.S. District Court for Eastern Michigan, ruled in favor of Edward C. Pinkus and M. Laurence Popofsky, counsel for Dade County, but deferred judgement on the merits of the case itself.