IT APPEARING to the Court from the Emergency Motion for Stay of Removal, the other submissions,
the arguments of counsel, and the hearing held on the 28th of January, 2017,
When asked at his 2006 confirmation hearings for the appeals court about the kind of judge he considers unacceptable, Gorsuch answered: «Someone who is not willing to listen with an open mind to
the arguments of counsel, to his colleagues, and to precedent.»
After listening to
arguments of counsel, Justice Idris ruled that he was unable to place any value on the application to stay proceedings because the copy presented to the court by Ecobank's counsel was not a certified - true - copy.
After hearing
the arguments of counsel, Justice Abang held that, adjournments were at the discretion of the court.
Having listened to
the arguments of the counsels, Justice Abang noted that the application for adjournment on the basis that counsel to the defence had been changed was baseless.
In addition to
the arguments of counsel, the court considered the law in other jurisdictions, weighing the arguments on both sides.
In addition to incorporating tables, indices, and annotations — features introduced by his predecessor — Cranch supplemented the Court's opinions with «faithful summar [ies] of
the arguments of counsel» and, in his first and fourth volumes, extensive appendices of notes.
«Indeed, I recognize the attractiveness of
the argument of Counsel.
Isn't he supposed to reason on
the arguments of counsel?
«
the arguments of both counsel as to the right of the state of Alabama over navigable water in virtue of her sovereignty, are omitted, because the opinion of the court does not touch upon that point.»
[3] As a result, his biographers conclude that in important, ground - breaking judgments he was more influenced by his clerks than by
the arguments of counsel.