Sentences with phrase «because oral argument»

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«It's hard because the (Supreme) Court lays down these rules, and everybody thinks that the court is being hostile to religion, and people get unhappy and angry and agitated,» said Kagan near the end of Wednesday's oral arguments.

Since Nick's earlier posting, lawyers for the Senate Majority filed a request asking to reschedule the April 18 oral arguments to April 19 or 20 because lead counsel Michael Carvin will be out - of - town at a funeral.

Usually, the oral argument starts to organize itself as I do this because I generally refer to other cards as I go.

Even as the U.S. Supreme Court gets ready to hear oral arguments in April to decide the matter, the grate state of Alabama (because, you know, so often Alabama grates) decided it couldn't just remain on the sidelines any longer.

The Supreme Court heard oral argument last term, but announced June 26, 2017, that it was putting the case over for reargument, almost certainly because the justices were split 4 - 4.

More importantly, Reeve made an important step in skills training: he introduced formal moot courts as a part of the Litchfield curriculum, though on an optional basis.53 Initially, the students themselves conducted the moots, though by 1803, when James Gould was teaching at Litchfield, he presided over the arguments.54 The rules Gould imposed for the moots required not only oral argument, but also written argument, because the litigants had to produce writs and pleadings as well.55 Although a far cry from modern legal writing programs, these moot courts at least endeavored to provide some practical training in the production of persuasive writing.56

It's a shame, because I, for one, would have been interested to read his take on the appellate briefing and oral argument process in this one.

Upon first read, the SCOTUS oral argument transcript in Kimbrough is a bit less frustrating because Kimbrough's lawyer did a nice job stressing that Derrick Kimbrough's 15 - year sentence seems in harmony with the sentencing purposes Congress set forth in 3553 (a)(2).

That is because a narrow escape tunnel was constructed at the suggestion of Elias LJ in oral argument at the Mitchell appeal.

The Supreme Court's oral argument on post-Booker issues must have created some kind of distant sentencing karma because numerous circuit on Tuesday issued published sentencing opinions.

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.

I think very practically we see a lot of law firm lawyers encourage their junior associates to volunteer with us because we will give them an opportunity to get hands - on experience, working directly with clients, conducting interviews, gathering facts and then presenting them both in briefing and in oral argument to a court, much faster than a typical defense side large law firm context might provide.

«Because of you and your winning oral argument before the U.S. Supreme Court, I can always honestly say to her that I did everything I possibly could to be there for her.»

OTOH in decades past I know some francophone lawyers would make their oral arguments in English, just because they figured they would be better understood in that language.

I ranked the Seventh Circuit's Web site as one of the two best, because of the easy access the site provides not only to published opinions but also to briefs, oral argument audiotapes, and free docket entry information.

Because of the secret nature of the Court of Review, attorneys for the American Civil Liberties Union and National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers were not permitted to present oral arguments.