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William C. Bullitt ’68, the Philadelphia lawyer representing Miller and Joseph Clark III’s estate, said yesterday that his clients are filing for a reargument of the case before the entire 15-judge Superior Court. The petition must be approved by a vote of the judges and will be decided within 60 days, according to the court’s internal operating procedures...
...circumstances cited in the court’s procedures in which it would grant reargument is “where it appears that a panel may have overlooked or misapprehended one or more material facts of record...
...petition for reargument is not granted, Bullitt said his clients would then have 30 days to appeal to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court...
About one year after the Court first heard Brown, the case had to be reargued because the Court could not make a unanimous decision. But in September 1953, two months before the reargument was to begin, Chief Justice Vinson died of a heart attack, and Chief Justice Earl Warren was appointed...
...itself was a case that had to be argued twice before a decision was announced. The court hears arguments in about 150 cases each term, and since 1977 has held over at least one case each year for reargument the following term...