Sentences with phrase «like oral argument»

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Let's hope that when the Supreme Court hears oral arguments on the case on October 2, the Justices will side with regular working people like Hobson, not with the big bosses and corporations who want to use the fine print to rig the rules against the rest of us.

In his words, «Furthermore, since between 95 and 97 percent of the Jewish state was illiterate at the time of Jesus, it must be presumed that Jesus also was illiterate, that he knew, like the vast majority of his contemporaries in an oral culture, the foundational narratives, basic stories, and general expectations of his tradition but not the exact texts, precise citations, or intricate arguments of its scribal elites» (Ibid: 25 - 26).

Shying away from the «quagmire» of intervention in states like New Jersey (noted from the bench during oral arguments), and citing its earlier rejection of a challenge to the state's graduation exams, the court pointedly observed that «protracted litigation» delays the progress of education reform.

Most critics of portfolio assessment say they like the emphasis on demonstrated writing and oral skill, but have seen too many instances in which a refusal to give traditional tests of factual recall leads to charmingly written essays with little concrete information to support their arguments.

If you are the kind of person who likes to distill your oral arguments down to one notecard, this will seem pretty familiar.

Broadcasting only the audio of the oral argument may seem like the Ninth Circuit has quite a ways to go in using technology to stream arguments.

This week, we'd like to ask you: Should U.S. Supreme Court oral arguments be livestreamed?

A good oral argument experience — one that throws you into the mix, with vigorous and challenging questions — is like nothing else.

Moot Courts When oral argument is scheduled, a coordinator from the Appellate Litigation Section will contact the pro bono counsel to determine if he or she would like to participate in a moot court argument with 2 - 3 volunteer lawyers.

After all, if a Supreme Court advocate like Morrison, with twenty oral arguments under his belt and who played a substantial role in researching and drafting the District's 15,000 word brief due at the Court tomorrow is regarded as fungible, what hope is there for the rest of us?

Certain students will react more negatively than others to the Socratic Method and on - demand public speaking scenarios like the first - year oral argument program, based upon their psychological makeup.154 This subset of a given law school student body might experience serious psychological and physiological manifestations155 of stress and anxiety.

Raj Rajaratnam asked the Second Circuit on Monday to toss five of 14 insider - trading counts for which he is serving an 11 - year sentence, but a judge at oral arguments said his latest bid for a shorter prison term did not look like something a prisoner who has exhausted his direct appeal would argue in support of a finding of «actual innocence.»

Confirming an important point conceded by Deputy SG during last Term's oral arguments, the Government's Gall brief states repeatedly that policy disagreements with the Guidelines can be a valid basis for a variance — even though many circuit have held otherwise (like the Tenth Circuit in a split ruling yesterday) and even though many lower court briefs filed by the Government have argued otherwise.

Furthermore, religion does not preclude reasoned argument; its arguments are based on a more - or-less exacting hermeneutic of «revealed» texts (and, sometimes, oral traditions), which is not that much different from the practice of law, since most legal cases are not reasoned from first principles, but from precedent - setting cases like Oakes).

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.»

As U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said during oral argument in this case, judges should be «above the fray,» and Justice Antonin Scalia's remarks were similar, to the effect that «there are things we just don't let judges do, like publish op - eds in newspapers to respond to criticism of the court's decisions.

He argues that good typography is part of being professional in print, just like practicing for an oral argument or selecting a tie is part of being a professional in court.

# 6 NEW JERSEY As New Jersey Supreme Court Justice Barry T. Albin explained to defense counsel during 2016 oral arguments in an appeal of a case based wholly on junk science, out - of - state plaintiffs «like our evidence rules, they like our expert witness rules....»