BCLS Grimes Moot Court Finals on April 18 4/10/01--Boston College Law School is pleased to announce that this year's Wendell F. Grimes Moot Court Competition will be headed by a panel of three esteemed judges, including Judge Samuel Alito, Judge Ellen Huvelle and Judge Edward Harrington. The competition will take place on Wednesday April 18th at 4pm in East Wing Room 120.

This year's topic to be discussed involves Internet filtering software and the First Amendment. Names of the finalists for the competition are:

Petitioners: Craig Kowalsky and Neil McDevitt

Respondents: Phil Catanzano and John McAdams.

"We could not be more pleased to have such distinguished judges on the panel this year," Dean John H. Garvey said. "The Grimes Moot Court is a very important program which helps prepare our students for national advocacy programs and the courtroom. And Boston College Law School prides itself on the quality and dedication of its alumni, so having two former graduates come back to be a part of the Moot Court is also very special."

After receiving her B.A. from Wellesley College and her M.C. P from Yale University School of Architecture, Ellen Huvelle graduated from Boston College Law School where she earned her J.D. As a Bostonian, Huvelle went on to clerk for the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court before opening her own practice in Washington DC. Huvelle was a lecturer at the University of Virginia School of Law for two years before she became an associate judge to the District of Columbia Superior Court. Huvelle has served on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia for the past two years after having been nominated by Bill Clinton in 1999.

As another former Boston College Law School graduate, Edward Harrington has also held a long list of distinguished positions. Harrington is currently serving on the U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts and has been since 1988. Before becoming a District Court judge, Harrington served in the U. S. Navy JAG Corps, worked as a law clerk for the Massachusetts Superior Court, ran his own private practice in Boston, and served as both the assistant U.S. attorney and the Attorney-in-charge for the U.S. Department of Justice. Harrington served as the U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts from 1977 to 1981 before opening his own practice in Framingham which he ran until he was nominated to serve on the U.S District Court of Massachusetts.

Judge Samuel Alito, originally from Trenton New Jersey, received his A.B. from Princeton and his J.D. from Yale Law School before becoming a law clerk to the Hon. Leonard A. Carth in 1976. Alito then went on to become the Assistant U.S. attorney in the District of New Jersey and followed that with Assistant to the U.S. solicitor general and then deputy assistant U.S. attorney general with the U.S. Department of Justice. Alito served for three years as the U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey again in 1987 before being nominated by George Bush for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit which is where he has served for the past 10 years.

The Grimes Moot Court Competition is an internal competition designed for second-year students aspiring to enter interscholastic competition or who simply want to build their appellate skills.