Sentences with phrase «at oral arguments about»

At oral arguments about whether public prayers at a New York town's board meetings are permissible, the high court took a broad look at the country's church - state history and even the Supreme Court's own traditions.

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At Wednesday's oral arguments, the court's conservative majority appeared to have the votes to allow the public prayers to continue in some form, but both sides expressed concerns about the level of judicial and government oversight over prayers presented by members of a particular faith.

The weekly posts here offer an insider's perspective on oral arguments in major cases at the federal appellate level and news stories about sitting Supreme Court justices.

Justice Kagan said that oral argument is about «the justices talking to each other with some helpless person standing at the podium who you're talking through.»

He notes that at the oral argument of the case, one of the plaintiffs» lawyers proudly described himself as a «bounty hunter,» to which the court in its opinion remarked, «We will have more to say about exactly who Proposition 65 was created for later, but it wasn't bounty hunters.»

I think one of the things that has come about for me in doing this over the last 10 or 15 years is that I really noticed and heard a lot of more experienced attorneys complaining to me that they think younger attorneys are less adept at oral arguments because they don't practice formulating their SOPs.

As Linda Greenhouse and others have noted, CJ Roberts» vote is perhaps the biggest SCOTUS - watcher aspect of Cunningham, especially given his apparent hostility to Apprendi expressed at the Cunningham oral argument and Jeff Rosen's recent article in the Atlantic Monthly about CJ Roberts» eagerness for greater consensus.

Barry «is a very active judge at oral argument, which is usually a sign a judge has already read the briefs and is very actively thinking about the case,» said David Fine, an appellate lawyer based in Harrisburg, Pa. «She is very polite in questioning and at the same time also direct.»

Carolyn Elefant stated, «[I'm excited about] new legal research products like CaseText's CARA that take a new approach to legal research — I can't wait to have it scrape the cases from a brief so I can have them all at my fingertips at oral argument.»