Standing before a panel of three judges, Courtney Mascarenas argued that the legal decision against a teenager whose cell phone had been confiscated by a teacher, after assuming a text message was about drugs, should be overturned because it violated the Fourth Amendment of the US Constitution. Her colleague, Hannah Schweitzer, also argued that the school violated his First Amendment rights.

Chris McMahon isn’t your typical Deputy County Attorney.  He recently graduated from law school and became a Deputy County Attorney.  But he didn’t begin pursuing his law degree at Creighton University until he was 45 years old – a couple of decades after graduating with his bachelors’ degree from Midlands University.  He jokes that he’s a long-term planner.