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By Lawrence Wrightsman

ISBN-10: 0195368622

ISBN-13: 9780195368628

ISBN-10: 1435657381

ISBN-13: 9781435657380

Of all of the steps within the excellent Court's decision-making approach, just one is seen to the general public: the oral arguments. via rigorously examining transcripts of all of the oral arguments to be had to the general public, Professor Wrightsman offers empirical solutions to a few questions on the operation of oral arguments. This ebook presents a version for figuring out the dynamics of judicial selection making from an empirical point of view.

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8) Oral Arguments 17 In 1833 the Court suggested that the advocates provide “printed arguments,” but this rule was not mandatory, and so the practice of submitting briefs only gradually became standard. But there was another reason for the length of oral arguments, and, inferentially, their impact, being reduced: the Court’s workload increased. It handled 98 cases in 1810 but 253 in 1850. By 1845 the Court was devoting 99 days a year to oral arguments. In comparison, for the term that began in October 2007, it allocated only 39 days for them.

2). And the reason that the vote is predictable, according to the attitudinal model, is that it derives directly from the justice’s attitudes and values. It is certainly true that in some cases the votes of justices are predictable from their values; on matters of civil rights, the death penalty, abortion, and related topics, liberals often vote differently from conservatives. For example, in the October 2001 term, nine cases dealt with defendants’ rights. The three most conservative justices, Rehnquist, Scalia, and Thomas, rarely supported the defendants in these cases; out of 27 votes by these justices in these nine cases, only 3 favored the defendant’s position, and 24 ruled in favor of the government.

Sadly, he caught a severe cold on his trip to Washington for the ceremony, his health deteriorated rapidly, and he died during the next year. The first woman to seek admission to the Supreme Court bar was Belva A. Lockwood, in 1876. The Court’s reaction to her was also less than welcoming. Chief Justice Morrison Waite told her: By the uniform practice of the Court from its organization to the present time, and by the fair construction of its rules, none but men are permitted to practice before it as attorneys and counselors.

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