On March 25 the U.S. Supreme Court heard heated arguments in a key “Contraceptive Mandate” case, which asks:  Can the government require for-profit corporations to provide their employees with health insurance that covers certain contraception methods to which the corporations’ owners object on religious grounds? Among the 400 spectators in the courtroom that day were four members of the SLS Marion Rice Kirkwood Moot Court Board:  co-directors Randee Fenner (BA ’75) and Lisa Pearson, JSM ’83, and co-presidents and Class of 2014 students Thomas Fu (BS/MS ’11) and Leah Judge.  Their SLS-sponsored field trip to Washington, D.C., followed the conclusion of the 2014 Kirkwood Moot Court Competition in which 20 teams of students argued one of the cases heard by the Court—Conestoga Wood Specialties Corp. v. Sebelius. “We thought it was a great case when we picked it last summer,” says Judge, “but we didn’t know whether the Court would grant review.”  The Court granted certiorari in November, just before the students’ final briefs were due, making the Kirkwood competition more exciting and less “moot” than usual.  “After spending months thinking about these issues, it was amazing to see how they played out in the justices’ questions and the attorneys’ responses,” Fu says.