Tournament: Greenhill | Round: 2 | Opponent: Loyola AO | Judge: De La O, Dino
Nuclear power is the only way to generate sufficient energy for large-scale desalination
IAEA 15 (widely known as the world's "Atoms for Peace" organization within the United Nations family. Set up in 1957 as the world's centre for cooperation in the nuclear field, the Agency works with its Member States and multiple partners worldwide to promote the safe, secure and peaceful use of nuclear technologies, “New Technologies for Seawater Desalination Using Nuclear Energy,” IEAE TecDoc Series, 2015)
 It is anticipated that …in the Mediterranean region

Water crises cause escalating global conflict.
Rasmussen 11 (Erik, CEO, Monday Morning; Founder, Green Growth Leaders) “Prepare for the Next Conflict: Water Wars” HuffPo 4/12)
For years experts …wars will accelerate.

That goes nuclear
Zahoor 12 (Musharaf, Researcher at Department of Nuclear Politics – National Defense University, Water Crisis can Trigger Nuclear War in South Asia, http://www.siasat.pk)
Water is an ambient …through political will.

Tournament: Greenhill | Round: 2 | Opponent: Loyola AO | Judge: De La O, Dino
Prism is good
Gray ’15, Jane Gray, 3-13-2015, " Game changer: Prism aims to dethrone Mox," Utility Week, http://utilityweek.co.uk/news/game-changer-prism-aims-to-dethrone-mox/1110402#.V7E085grJh0
However, Wileman and …did for aviation.

And, we solve for meltdowns – PRISM makes them scientifically impossible
Nathan ’13, Stuart Nathan, May 2013, "Prism project: A proposal for the UK’s problem plutonium," The Engineer, https://www.theengineer.co.uk/issues/energy-and-sustainability-special/prism-project-a-proposal-for-the-uks-problem-plutonium/
Moreover, Powell said, …to stop the reaction.

Sodium is uniquely a great coolant
Lyans ’12, Mark Lynas (frequent speaker around the world on climate change, biotechnology and nuclear power, and was climate change advisor to the President of the Maldives between 2009 and 2011. In October 2013 he was appointed a Visiting Fellow at Cornell University’s Office of International Programs at the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, and now works with the Cornell Alliance for Science, funded entirely by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.), 7-9-2012, "World’s first nuclear waste-burning PRISM reactor moves a step closer in the UK," Mark Lynas, http://www.marklynas.org/2012/07/worlds-first-nuclear-waste-burning-prism-reactor-moves-a-step-closer-in-the-uk/
Sodium is actually …design of PRISM.

Tournament: GBX | Round: 1 | Opponent: Fenwick IC | Judge: Isis Davis-Marks
A is the interpretation: The Aff may not specify a particular method of limiting qualified immunity
B is the violation… they don’t
C are the standards:
1 Limits- The Aff allows way too many Affs. This EXPLODES aff ground
Bernick ’15 (Bernick, Evan, Contributor, Foundation for Economic Education “To Hold Police Accountable, Don’t Give Them Immunity.” Foundation for Economic Education, April 2015 https://fee.org/articles/to-hold-police-accountable-dont-give-them-immunity/)
There are a...the better debating.

2 Ground- Too much Aff ground

D Voters

Tournament: Badgerfield | Round: 4 | Opponent: Golden Meir | Judge: Dave Mcginnis
A. Interpretation: The Aff must specify the actor or group of actors that implements the aff advocacy in an explicit text in the AC.
B. Violation: this isn’t specified in the AC/doesn’t answer in CX
C. are the standards:
Weighing ground-
Real world application-

Policy education- agent spec is key to nuanced debates over the merits of the aff policy.
Cheshier David M. (Assistant Professor of Communications and Director of Debate at Georgia State University) “Debating Agent Specification”
Defenders of agent...certain legislated outcomes.
That’s key to education- ensures we’re learning about current events and how impacts function in the real world.

D. Voters. Fairness is a voter-
Educations a voter-
Drop the debater: 1.
Competing interps
No RVIs:

Tournament: GBX | Round: 5 | Opponent: Isidore Newman | Judge: Alston, Jonathan
CPText: The United States Congress should amend the FTCA to be the exclusive remedy for alleged torts committed by government employees, by including constitutional torts. 

Our solvency advocate clarifies the advocacy
Black ’91 (Allen Black is a partner in Winston and Strawn’s Washington, D.C. office with strong experience handling the full range of maritime matters, including regulatory issues, cargo and shipping issues, vessel financing and documentation, maritime litigation and arbitration, maritime commercial transactions, marine construction and product liability issues, and general maritime counseling. Mr. Black has handled a wide range of maritime litigation matters, including marine casualties, product liability matters, maritime lien cases, and maritime criminal law matters. He has helped establish a number of key precedents in maritime law concerning the scope of maritime attachments, the availability of punitive and lost-profits damages in admiralty, and the jurisdictional reach of admiralty limitation of liability actions. Mr. Black handles Federal Maritime Commission matters and maritime arbitration matters. Mr. Black assists clients to avoid litigation by conducting shipboard internal investigations and providing timely, practical advice to shipowners and shippers, and by assisting clients with organizational and contracting matters. Mr. Black assists shipowners and lenders in structuring vessel financing transactions to ensure compliance with U.S. shipping and vessel documentation laws. He counsels clients in navigating U.S. and international requirements pertaining to vessel construction, certification, and operations. In addition, he assists clients in designing and implementing international freight transportation agreements and related transactions. Mr. Black served as a seagoing officer, and later as an attorney, in the U.S. Coast Guard, retiring at the rank of Commander in 1996. Before attending law school, Mr. Black served three tours afloat, commanding two Coast Guard cutters and carrying out the full range of Coast Guard missions, from heavy weather rescues to intercepting drug smugglers and deterring mutinies at sea. As a Coast Guard attorney, he handled a number of felony-level trials and advised Coast Guard commanders, before being selected to train and ultimately manage the Coast Guard’s legal workforce. In addition, he developed, coordinated, and presented international law seminars to top-level military and civilian officials in a number of emerging democracies in support of Department of Defense initiatives, traveling to, and working with, a number of countries, including Ukraine, Colombia, Estonia, and Russia. Following retirement from the Coast Guard, Mr. Black worked as a maritime and litigation attorney in Baltimore before joining Winston and Strawn in 1999. Mr. Black’s court admissions include: Eastern District of Virginia, District of Maryland, District of Columbia, Southern District of New York, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First, Second, and Fourth Circuit, and the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces. Mr. Black received a B.S. from the United States Coast Guard Academy in 1979 and a J.D. from the Marshall-Wythe School of Law, College of William and Mary in 1991, where he was named to the Order of the Coif and was a teaching assistant and member of the William and Mary Law Review. Mr. Black has been recognized as a leading lawyer in the field of Transport – Shipping by Who’s Who Legal 2016 and was selected as the 2013 Lawyer of the Year for Admiralty and Maritime Law by Best Lawyers. Mr. Black has also been recognized as a leading admiralty and maritime lawyer by The Best Lawyers in America since 2012, and has been ranked in Chambers USA since 2011 as one of the nation’s top lawyers in transportation litigation practice. Winston and Strawn’s admiralty and maritime group was recognized by U.S. News and World Report – Best Lawyers “Law Firm of the Year” in Admiralty and Maritime Law for 2011-2012. Mr. Black has been an adjunct professor of Admiralty Law at the University of Baltimore since 1997 and previously served as an adjunct instructor for the Defense Institute for International Legal Studies (1993-1999). He is a member of the Maritime Law Association of the United States and currently serves as the chairman of its Subcommittee on Piracy and Secretary of the Regulation of Vessel Operations Committee. He is a past president of the Marine Trades Association of Maryland. He is active in his community as a trustee of the First Presbyterian Church of Annapolis and advisor to World Artists Experience. He is an active sailor and a licensed merchant mariner (Master, 100 tons, power and sail). Mr. Black has written and spoken extensively on maritime law matters ranging from maritime regulatory developments to maritime contracting, legal developments, piracy, and maritime environmental compliance. He is co-author of the “Maritime Law Answer Book,” now coming up on its third printing by the Practicing Law Institute. He also has a great moustache. H. Allen Black, Balance, Band-Aid, or Tourniquet: The Illusion Oo Qualified Immunity for Federal Officials, 32 Wm. and Mary L. Rev. 733 (1991), http://scholarship.law.wm.edu/wmlr/vol32/iss3/5)
In the wake...law enforcement actions. 6

Competition
A) We’re mutually exclusive, constitutional torts are exactly what are brought forth in cases where Qualified Immunity is applicable. Amending the FTCA replaces the cases from going to just civil courts.
B) It also competes through net benefits

Net Benefits
The doctrine of Qualified Immunity fails its original intent. It doesn’t protect police or plaintiffs.
Black 2
The Court did...hears suppression appeals.12

Additionally, QI doctrine sets up a Catch-22 situation. The QI defense is used in cases where the laws are not clearly established, but by using the Immunity defense the laws remain unclear.
Black 3
The qualified immunity...that was unlawful."

The not only does the CP solve all the impacts of the AC, but also it better protects federal employees, stops interference between civil cases and criminal cases, and allows for plaintiffs with legitimate concerns to receive justice
Black 4
Including constitutional...the jury verdict.

Tournament: Badgerfield | Round: 2 | Opponent: Whitefish Bay AP | Judge: IDK
The aff further exacerbates the harms of qualified immunity by adding to the massive constellation of impenetrable case law.
Hassel , (Diana - Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs @ Roger Williams University School of Law, J.D., Rutgers University B.A., Mount Holyoke College "Living a Lie: The Cost of Qualified Immunity", Missouri Law Review Volume 64 Issue 1 Winter 1999 Article 9 Winter 1999, p. 123-124, scholarship.law.missouri.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3402andcontext=mlr
In Part 11I...entitlement to immunity.

And, their focus on the defendant in civil rights liability disputes distracts from broader social awareness
Hassel 2, (Diana - Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs @ Roger Williams University School of Law, J.D., Rutgers University B.A., Mount Holyoke College "Living a Lie: The Cost of Qualified Immunity", Missouri Law Review Volume 64 Issue 1 Winter 1999 Article 9 Winter 1999, p. 133-134, scholarship.law.missouri.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3402andcontext=mlr
These laudable goals...of civil rights.

The activism of the AC is a placebo  
McKeever '95, (Robert J - President of the National Water Safety Congress), "Raw Judicial Power?: The Supreme Court and American Society", Manchester University Press, 1995, p. 16-17, https://books.google.com/books?id=D-nBAAAAIAAJandprintsec=frontcoverandsource=gbs_atb#v=onepageandqandf=false
It is not...new problems emerge.'"

Tournament: Apple Valley | Round: 6 | Opponent: Bettendorf AW | Judge: Parent Judge
Counterplan Text: The Supreme Court should engage in binding regulatory negotiations over excessive force with relevant and appropriate stakeholders. 

Rushin and Edwards ’17, (Stephen and Griffin - Stephen Rushin is an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Alabama School of Law. Professor Rushin holds a Ph.D. in Jurisprudence and Social Policy and a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. Griffin Edwards is an Assistant Professor of Business at the University of Alabama, Birmingham, Collat School of Business. Professor Edwards holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Emory University.), “DE-POLICING”, DRAFT, Forthcoming, Cornell Law Review Volume 102 (2017), p. 51-52
So where do...the implementation process.”204

The counterplan is mutually exclusive
McKinney '99 (Mathew J - Director of the Center for Natural Resources and Environmental Policy at the University of Montana, chair of the university's Natural Resource Conflict Resolution Program, and adjunct professor in the School of Law.), "ARTICLE: Negotiated Rulemaking: Involving Citizens In Public Decisions", Montana Law Review, Summer, 1999, 60 Mont L. Rev. 499
Negotiated rulemaking, sometimes referred to as regulatory negotiation or "reg-neg," emerged...agency and stakeholders.

The counterplan solves aff impacts better and avoids the DAs.
Harter '97 (Philip J. - Professor Emeritus University of Missouri School of Law. Former Director of the Program on Consensus, Democracy and Governance at Vermont Law School. Areas of Expertise Collaboration to Develop Policy for Democracy, Federal Government, Open Government, Regulatory Process) "FEAR OF COMMITMENT: AN AFFLICTION OF ADOLESCENTS", Duke Law Journal, Vol. 46:1389, 1997, scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1007andcontext=dlj
Conclusion: What...their full potential. 

Lack of police buy into measures meant to increase scrutiny of potential misconduct results in a de-policing effect.
Rushin and Edwards ’17, (Stephen and Griffin - Stephen Rushin is an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Alabama School of Law. Professor Rushin holds a Ph.D. in Jurisprudence and Social Policy and a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. Griffin Edwards is an Assistant Professor of Business at the University of Alabama, Birmingham, Collat School of Business. Professor Edwards holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Emory University.), “DE-POLICING”, DRAFT, Forthcoming, Cornell Law Review Volume 102 (2017), p. 51-52
While this Article...these growing pains.

De-policing is a DA to the AC since it results increases crime and decreases public safety.
Sutton '15 (Randy - Senior Sergeant at the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, Nevada. A member of the Screen Actors Guild), "The dangers of de-policing -- will cops just stand down?" New York Post, 05/05/2015, nypost.com/2015/05/05/the-dangers-of-de-policing-will-cops-just-stand-down/
Not only are...defended the shield

Tournament: Blake | Round: 1 | Opponent: WDM EM | Judge: Trevor Martinez
Evaluating a normative statement like the resolution requires context sensitivity. 2 warrants:
First, internal consistency. Abstract ethics fail to account for context create violent contradictions where compliance with the standard entails compromising the value that underpins said standard.
Butler ‘05, Judith. Giving an Account of Oneself. 1. New York: Fordham University Press, 2005. Page 6.
The context is...freedom and particularity.

Second, flexibility. Abstract ethical standards that are not contextually derived fail to guide action since they cannot accommodate for an unforeseeable shift in circumstances.
Berlin ’69, I. (1958) “Two Concepts of Liberty.” In Isaiah Berlin (1969) Four Essays on Liberty. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 170-171
There is little...respect the facts.  
Thus the criterion is consistency with contextual details

I contend that US public colleges and universities ought to restrict some constitutionally protected speech.
First, universities should restrict hate speech, which harms the entire campus community.
Kaplin ‘92, William - Professor of Law, Catholic University of America, “Hate Speech on the College Campus: Freedom of Speech and Equality at the Crossroads,” Winston Howard Lecture, Land and Water Law Review, 1992.
On yet another...sensitivity and care.

Second, constitutionally protected speech that is racist denies equality of education to students of color.
Gordon ’03, Jill - Professor of Philosophy, Colby College, and Markus Johnson Colby College, “Race, Speech, and a Hostile Education Environment: What Color is Free Speech?” Journal of Social Philosophy, Vol. 34, No. 3, Fall 2003.
The grievousness of...the toleration thereof.

Third, US public colleges and universities have different responsibilities regarding speech than the government.
Byrne ‘91, Peter - Professor, Georgetown University Law Center, “Racial Insults and Free Speech Within the University,” Georgetown University Law Journal, Vol. 79, 1991.
The university's relationship...to improve it.85