Word: orals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hours a day, four days a week, two weeks a month, the Supreme Court listens to lawyers argue their cases. For the lawyers, their rigorously controlled time before the bench can be a harrowing ordeal. They are allowed exactly one hour* by the clock in which to make their oral arguments-and during that brief span they must field the penetrating questions of the nine justices. "I made three arguments in every case," the late Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson once wrote about his own appearance before the court as Solicitor General of the U.S. "First came the one that...
When he himself was appointed to the court, Justice Jackson learned that his colleagues had mixed views of oral argument. Some thought it vital, others thought it largely a waste of time. Over the years, written briefs have become less and less brief; the justices have the opportunity-whether they use it or not -of reading a lawyer's whole story before he utters a word in court...
Whether the verbal sparring wins, loses or makes little impression, seldom does the court hear oral argument on so many big and brambly constitutional issues in one four-day session as it did last week...
Although Doty hadn't expected the report to be ready until next month at the earliest, the committee's progress during January and February proved better than he had expected. It reached an "oral consensus" about the beginning of February and spent the last two months drafting their recommendations into final form...
Third, Kennedy said, the Library will house an "oral history of recorded interviews with some 300 of the President's friends and associates. Because most important communications are now made by telephone, Kennedy said, "the Library cold have all the written documents and still not present a true picture...