Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Fall Semester, 2008
MIT 6.805/STS085: Ethics and Law on the Electronic Frontier
Preparation for week of class on October 2
Moot Court Roles
Here are your roles and assignments. For fun, those of you playing
roles of real people should find out about then and try to build that
into your performance.
If you are unclear about your
what you need to do in the Court, please email us at
6.805-staff@mit.edu.
Parties:
- Attorneys for Defendant/Appellee (Armando Samaniego) and (Kats Sasanuma).
- Appellant, United States Solicitor General (Vanessa Esch) and Assistant
Solicitor General (Ian Jacobi).
Each
to argue before the Court for 10 minutes.
The Court (Nine Supreme
Court Justices)
- Chief Justice Roberts (Xiao Xiao)
- Justice John Paul Stevens (Bill Magnuson)
- Justice Antonin Scalia (Josh Levinger)
- Justice Anthony Kennedy (Stephen Woodrow)
- Justice David Souter (Russell Ryan)
- Justice Clarence Thomas (Charles Post)
- Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Kendra Pugh)
- Justice Stephen Breyer (Akash G Shah)
- Justice Samuel Alito (Josh Campoverde)
New York Times Reporter (prepare and present story on the immediate result of the case and the views of
the parties)
- Linda Greenhouse (Caitlin Johnson)
Frontline Reporter (prepare and presnet the in-depth view
as an introduction)
- Hedrick Smith (Michael Morris-Pearce)
Civil Liberties Amici
- American Civil Liberties Union
- arguing before the Court, 5 minutes: (Jiaqi Cui)
- speaking at the press conference, (Eric Schmiedl) and (John Hawkinson)
- Electronic Frontier Foundation
- arguing before the Court, 5 minutes: (Christopher Varenhorst)
- speaking at the press conference, (Rebecca Weiss, Ben Gleitzman )
- Center for Democracy and Technology
- speaking at the press conference, (Michael Medlock-Walton and Benjamin Switala)
- Electronic Privacy Information Center
- speaking at the press conference, (Chris Murphy)
Law Enforcement Amici
- National Association of District Attorneys
- arguing before the Court, 5 minutes: (Andrew Hsiao)
- speaking at the press conference, (Vina Nguyen and Christ Ternus)
- National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
- arguing before the Court, 5 minutes: (Brianna Veenstra)
- speaking at the press conference, (Alexander Patrikalakis)
- The International Association of Chiefs of Police
- speaking at the press conference, (Jesse Sowell and James Stenard)