Sentences with phrase «understanding judicial opinions»

Students will also practice basic lawyering skills to provide a taste of what they would do in law school or as lawyers, including reading and interpreting constitutional provisions, statutes, or regulations, reading and understanding judicial opinions, and mapping out and making basic forms of legal arguments.

Not exact matches

«As I understand the various opinions today: One Justice holds that two - parent notification is unconstitutional (at least in the present circumstances) without judicial bypass, but constitutional with bypass; four Justices would hold that two - parent notification is constitutional with or without bypass; four Justices would hold that two - parent notification is unconstitutional with or without bypass, though the four apply two different standards; six Justices hold that one - parent notification with bypass is constitutional, though for two different sets of reasons; and three Justices would hold that one - parent notification with bypass is unconstitutional.»

I'm usually able to see both sides of an argument, but here, honestly, I just can not understand the logic of the other side given the pervasive utilization in the legal profession of junior colleagues to write judicial opinions, briefs, motions, articles, letters, etc. on which senior folks sign off.

Rather, everyone understands that such practices are de rigueur because the senior folks are simply way too busy handling other senior - level tasks to undertake the very time - consuming process of researching all of the relevant facts and legal issues pertinent to a judicial opinion, legal brief, or law journal article, and crafting all that raw material into persuasive prose.

He argues that if carefully crafted, the use of metaphors in judicial opinions assists in understanding.

For exactly this reason, Advocate General Léger rightly advised in his opinion in the Baustahlgewebe case that the jurisdiction of the General Court must be understood «as not extending to actions for compensation relating to judicial acts of that Court itself» (para 70).

«I am proud to have promoted a pragmatic approach to judging during my time on the court, and to have had the opportunity to apply my view that judicial opinions should be easy to understand and that judges should focus on the right and wrong in every case,» he wrote.

If the student understood how a judicial opinion was created, how legislation was produced, how administrative rules and regulations were made, then she could deal with these materials in any format.

And I don't mean that we can't read statutes, judicial opinions, or briefs or represent clients based on all of this information, but the volume of the information being generated by lawyers, judges, legislators, etc. can no longer be found, digested, disseminated, or understood without software and algorithms.

The fourth article, «Understanding Voice: Writing in a Judicial Context,» by Andrea McArdle, introduces us to judicial voice, and does so by leading off with a number of questions, including «does a judicial opinion have a «voice,» and if so, what are its attJudicial Context,» by Andrea McArdle, introduces us to judicial voice, and does so by leading off with a number of questions, including «does a judicial opinion have a «voice,» and if so, what are its attjudicial voice, and does so by leading off with a number of questions, including «does a judicial opinion have a «voice,» and if so, what are its attjudicial opinion have a «voice,» and if so, what are its attributes?

On so grave a subject as this, I feel obliged to say that, in my opinion, such an exertion of judicial power transcends the limits of the authority of the court as described by its repeated decisions, and as I understand, acknowledged in this opinion of the majority of the court.