Sentences with phrase «of appellate arguments»

Some of our appellate arguments have prompted judicial decisions that actually changed Tennessee law.

The format will have two lawyers presenting their cases in the form of appellate arguments to a panel of judges.

It's 20 or 30 minutes of appellate argument.

Not exact matches

Atty. Zelda Soriano, Legal Counsel for the Petitioners discussed the grounds on which the appellate court based their favorable decision, which includes the main argument of the petitioners that the field testing is characterized by «serious scientific uncertainty with regard to its health and environmental effects.»

The seven - member Court of Appeals heard oral arguments yesterday in two cases where a midlevel appellate court unanimously concluded last year that state oil and gas law doesn't trump the authority of local governments to control land use.

Gov. Cuomo's side of the Women's Equality Party argument has won yet another appellate court ruling.

Last week, the petitioners, which also include the Legal Aid Society, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and the New York Civil Liberties Union, submitted a motion for preference to the appellate court, asking that arguments in the case be heard by the end of June.

But she's especially looking forward to a publication forthcoming later this year in the Yale Journal of Law & Feminism titled «Telling Stories in the Supreme Court: Voices Briefs and the Role of Democracy in Constitutional Deliberation,» which will analyze a new, controversial form of appellate narrative argument: briefs that share stories of individuals not parties to the case at hand.

An appellate court in Austin on Thursday, September 24, heard arguments from three open - enrollment charter schools on the constitutionality of Texas Education Code Section 12.115 (c - 1), an automatic revocation provision in Senate Bill 2 passed by the Legislature in 2013.

Instead, he'd been drafted by the federal appellate court to ensure that after ten years of litigation, no sound arguments remained to save Rommy Gandolph's life.

The factually bankrupt rhetoric of environmentalist campaigns is no match for sound science, when claims and arguments are scrutinized at the trial and appellate level.

If you don't have a lot of experience with appellate briefs, or can't objectively identify the best arguments for your motions, it might be wise to hire someone who is experienced and impartial.

With over one hundred trials and fifteen arguments in the federal appellate courts, I have appeared before a lot of judges and seen good and bad practices from the bench and believe that I have learned from them.

Read chooses one aspect of each case (opening statement, direct examination, cross-examination, deposition, closing argument and appellate oral argument) and then reviews relevant transcripts from this «turning point,» analyzing why it was outcome - determinative.

Yet, as we all know, your average case law update spends maybe two paragraphs describing the impact of the ruling and close to 10 or 12 paragraphs setting out the background facts, the arguments by counsel, the findings of the trial judge (with quotes) and the conclusions of any appellate decisions (also with quotes).

Andrew Pincus is a leading light of the appellate Bar, making frequent appearances in high - stakes and high - profile Supreme Court arguments.

Although it focused on appellate argument rather than brief writing, a 1996 American Bar Association program illustrated some aspects of a phenomenological study.

As a Principal of Newman ADR, retired Justice Sandra Schultz Newman uses her experience as a former Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice to help attorneys identify likely points of contention in their briefs, to anticipate questions that will be asked, to organize the appellate argument, and to be primed and ready to give clear, crisp and on - point answers to a judge or justice's queries.

At the end of the opinion, the appellate court dealt with the argument that the application of the privilege to billing records would «wreak havoc» on the procedures for submitting substantiation in support of a fee request.

His impressive tally of arguments before the Supreme Court is supported by a strong presence in wider appellate courts, with experience in cases concerning affirmative action policies, environmental disputes and wider constitutional and regulatory challenges.

Our legal team has extensive experience drafting cogent appellate briefs and a history of making successful oral arguments before appellate judges.

The appellate court disregarded the husband's argument that the award of spousal support was excessive relative to its finding of her monthly exceptions, as his misunderstanding that an award of spousal support is solely designed to maintain the spouse at her former standard of living during the marriage, citing Robinson and Miller v. Cox, 44 Va..

He has written briefs and handled oral arguments in 15 appellate matters in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, the Maryland Court of Appeals and Court of Special Appeals, and the District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

The Virginia Court of Appeals ruled that husband had waived his argument that the circuit court erred in ruling that Husband's adultery was the primary cause of the dissolution of the marriage because Husband failed to cite legal authority in support of his argument in his appellate opening brief as required by Rule 5A: 20 of the Rules of the Supreme Court of Virginia.

The appellate court did agree with husband's argument that the trial court lacked the legal authority to award husband's GI Bill benefits to wife, and reversed that portion of the divorce decree.

There is an argument that this should be in a statement at the front of the case that the appellate judges prepare jointly.

As a follow - up to my last post, I notice that Rory Perry's Weblog has a recently updated list of other appellate courts providing webcasts of oral arguments.

My practice focuses on extraordinary writs, appellate remands, interlocutory appeals, and capital cases, although I supervise all our office's litigation and thus work on all sorts of cases and guide the legal writing and position - taking on behalf of the United States, oral argument training, and attorney development.

Veteran brief - writer Brian Keller gives us the nuts and bolts, from writing to oral argument, expanding on last week's Q&A covering the specialized world of appellate practice.

If you are running an organized program to help improve new lawyers or law students, and your advice will be given in the formal context of mock trials or appellate arguments, that's different.

I would typically spend 4 - 8 hours preparing for a half day hearing, and sometimes more depending on the subject matter, and would spend a similar or greater amount of time preparing for an oral argument of half an hour in an appellate court plus time in court waiting for my client's turn.

In recent months, Akerman's litigation and appellate lawyers introduced new legal products, including Akerman Bench, a mock oral argument product featuring one of the largest teams of former appellate judges assembled in - house by an Am Law 100 law firm.

Our appellate attorneys not only provide monitoring at trial for appellate issues, but they also assist with the preparation and argument of dispositive and pre-trial motions to ensure early and favorable rulings.

EXPERIENCE Newman ADR uses experience to help attorneys identify likely points of contention in their briefs, to anticipate questions that will be asked, to organize the appellate argument, and to be primed and ready to give clear, crisp and on - point answers to a judge or justice's queries.

Of course that's more than enough to get you through any appellate argument.

Noting the strict limits imposed nowadays on appellate briefs and oral arguments, Hughes proposes that appellate lawyers adopt a system of communicating via acronyms in the same way that text messengers use acronyms such as LOL and FWIW.

In the context of lawyering, perhaps you experience flow when you're thinking on your feet in the courtroom, cross-examining a witness or rebutting opposing counsel's arguments, or when you're at your desk writing a trial memo or appellate brief.

Generally speaking, the most difficult aspect of appellate practice isn't the research, which all of us learn to do in law school, or even the oral argument, which frequently resembles law school moot court.

He has argued six times in the Texas Supreme Court (including four arguments in a single Term); multiple times each in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth and Ninth Circuits; and three times in intermediate state appellate courts.

Allen actively participated in different skills competitions during his first year of law school ranging from trial, to mediation, to appellate arguments.

One example of civility in action that comes to mind arose when opposing counsel and I walked out of the courthouse together following an appellate argument in Springfield.

Blocher argues that while this makes sense as a way of allocating decisionmaking authority between trial and appellate courts based on their relative strengths, he does not see how those arguments apply at all to instant replay in sports, which he characterizes as «just appeals of a different kind.»

That's the case with the recent federal appellate argument over the constitutionality (under the Fourth Amendment) of New York's policy of random searches of bags belonging to passengers traveling on the New York subway system.

there is nothing in the plain language of the Martin Act, its legislative history or appellate level decisions in this state that supports defendant's argument that the Act preempts otherwise validly pleaded common - law causes of action»

These cases have been pre-screened by a staff attorney based on a determination that briefing and argument by counsel would benefit appellate review and assist with the fair and efficient administration of justice.

More, nearly 70 percent of our incoming attorneys have served as judicial clerks for federal judges, which provides key insights into arguments that resonate with t rial and appellate judges.

The appellate review model continues to dominate much thinking, argument, and law on the place of courts in the administrative state.

Ms. Wydler has developed an effective appellate practice for the firm through incisive brief writing and presenting oral arguments at the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals and district courts of appeal in Florida.

I switched the bulk of my practice over to appellate matters, where I only needed to show up in court for a 30 - minute argument, on a date scheduled months in advance and when I could work on the briefs from home.

Others would say that experience is unnecessary when the appellate courts routinely dispose of cases without opinions, abdicating their essential two-fold mission: shaping the law and giving litigants the comforting impression that their arguments had been thoughtfully considered.