Court in session: NE Supreme Court brings Law Day to Aurora

Justices hear real cases at AMS theater

Jeff Funk, center, chief justice of the Nebraska Supreme Court, speaks in a Q&A session during last week’s Law Day at Aurora High School.
Jeff Funk, center, chief justice of the Nebraska Supreme Court, speaks in a Q&A session during last week’s Law Day at Aurora High School.

The Aurora Middle School theater hosts a wide variety of meetings and events throughout the school year, but for the first time ever last week it turned into a Nebraska Supreme Court courtroom. Seven Supreme Court justices, all wearing black robes in a formal courtroom setting, took the stage to hear oral arguments on two pending cases as part of the Nebraska Supreme Court High School & Law Sc…