Tuesday, May 02, 2006
In the Roberts Court, More Room for Argument - New York Times
'The tone has changed,' Prof. Richard J. Lazarus of the Georgetown University Law Center, where he runs the Supreme Court Institute and teaches a course on Supreme Court advocacy, said on Tuesday.
In common with every other Supreme Court specialist contacted for this article, Professor Lazarus listed several obvious changes. 'They're not stepping on each other,' he said of the justices. 'They take longer before someone asks the first question. They give the lawyers more time to answer.'" ¶ 5/02/2006 07:31:00 PM
In the Roberts Court, More Room for Argument - New York Times: "While it is too soon for substantive appraisals of the first year of the Roberts court, it is not too soon for stylistic observations about what is clearly, in the view of lawyers who have appeared there this term, a different court.
'The tone has changed,' Prof. Richard J. Lazarus of the Georgetown University Law Center, where he runs the Supreme Court Institute and teaches a course on Supreme Court advocacy, said on Tuesday.
In common with every other Supreme Court specialist contacted for this article, Professor Lazarus listed several obvious changes. 'They're not stepping on each other,' he said of the justices. 'They take longer before someone asks the first question. They give the lawyers more time to answer.'" ¶ 5/02/2006 07:31:00 PM
