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Pictured above are Chief Judge Linda Ann Wells of the Florida Third District Court of Appeal, and Sanjeev Shah ’12.

Sanjeev Shah, valedictorian of the 2012 evening class at the Florida International University College of Law, received one of the highest scores in the latest Florida Bar exam. Due to this, he was invited to offer a few remarks on behalf of the Bar inductees by Chief Judge Linda Ann Wells of the Florida Third District Court of Appeal.

Shah, who is principal in the Lea+Elliott, Inc. Miami office, plans to merge his legal and engineering skills to inform the firm’s strategic decisions and policy making process.

We recently sat down with Shah to reflect on his time at FIU Law.

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Pictured from left to right: Benjamin Crego, Brittany Dancel, Senior Circuit Judge A. Raymond Randolph, Senior Circuit Judge Douglas H. Ginsburg, Chief Judge Linda Ann Wells, Altanese Phenelus, and Chanel Rowe.

In the final round of the 10th Annual Moot Court Competition, held Saturday, Feb. 9, two teams of second-year law students presented arguments before a distinguished panel of judges at Rafael Diaz-Balart Hall.

Senior Circuit Judge Douglas H. Ginsburg, of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, presided as chief justice. Joining him on the panel were Senior Circuit Judge A. Raymond Randolph of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and Chief Judge Linda Ann Wells of the Florida Third District Court of Appeal.

The four students, who worked in teams of two, included: Benjamin Crego and Brittany Dancel, arguing for the petitioner, and Altanese Phenelus and Chanel Rowe, arguing for the respondent (the Sunshine County School Board).

The issues presented were whether the School Board violated the First Amendment rights of its students by: 1) preventing the wearing of “Islam is the Devil!” t-shirts under its dress code policy; and 2) suspending the students for speech communicated online while outside of school grounds.

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