Elena Kaplan is simply wrong when she says in her May 8 letter “Three Cheers for the Maimonides School” that Nathan Lewin, attorney for the students and their families, is guilty of “mudslinging, name-calling” and insinuations of bigotry by the State Bar of Georgia in its handling of the mock trial championship controversy.
This mischaracterizes what Lewin says. He was making an analogy between the Georgia legal establishment’s “hiding behind legal formalities” to respond to the injustices of the 1960s after all, weren’t the blacks demanding to be served in places of public accommodations guilty of trespass and the State Bar of Georgia’s hiding “behind the legal formality of the written contract “no wiggle room there,” according to Bar President Jeffrey O. Bramlett despite the fact that the liquidated damages provision of the contract would not apply to the requested accommodation.
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