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Matt Johnson: This lesson has a lot of positives. There's the responsibility of each student to come up with a brief of a case, so they're going to have to get to know at least one case thoroughly. Then they have to apply that case and others to a situation that we have no answer to. The Court hasn't come out with opinions yet on these hypotheticals. It involves teamwork, working with other students, and coming up with an original argument. I think all of these things, with the verbal communication, are positives. This activity puts a lot of responsibility on the kids. They're the ones who are really taking the material and going with it.