Fulton County Chief Judge Doris L. Downs stepped in Wednesday evening and unilaterally resolved an increasingly bitter dispute over the national high school mock trial competition that has prompted a resignation from the State Bar Board of Governors, caused a Fulton County State Court judge to withdraw her participation in the event and drawn the attention of the Department of Justice, while tainting the event with allegations of religious discrimination.
The National High School Mock Trial Championship’s board reluctantly agreed to alter a computer-generated mock trial schedule to accommodate the religious observance of the Saturday Sabbath by the Maimonides School team of Brookline, Mass., whose members are Orthodox Jews, after Downs on Wednesday night notified the board that she would withdraw permission to use the Fulton County Courthouse if the board did not ensure that the team could participate fully in the event and honor their Sabbath obligations, which forbid them from engaging in any scheduled mock trial matches on Saturday.
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