Article: Costco has decided not to further challenge before the U.S. Supreme Court the state-based beverage alcohol regulations in Washington State, effectively letting stand the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that affirms the right of states to regulate alcohol consistent with the 21st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.(Business Briefs)

Article: Avoiding missteps in the Supreme Court: a guide to resources for counsel.
Journal of Appellate Practice and Process;  September 22, 2005 ;     700+ words ...I. INTRODUCTION An argument in the Supreme Court is an extraordinary thing. That is...in only eighty or so cases a year, a Supreme Court argument is likely to be a once-in-a-life...appellate advocates. The rarity of Supreme Court appearances, of course, makes them...

Article: Joining the bar of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Florida Bar Journal;  February 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ......dreamed of appearing before the U.S. Supreme Court but thought you would never have the...to admission to the Bar of the U.S. Supreme Court. If you choose to be admitted to the U.S. Supreme Court Bar in person, the experience is thrilling...

Article: First-Ever 2008 Supreme Court Wall Calendar Features History, Architecture, Cases and People of Nation's Highest Court.
Business Wire;  November 5, 2007 ;     453 words ......justices and workings of the Supreme Court are attracting increasing attention across the country. Now the Supreme Court has another kind of visibility...architecture, cases and people of the Supreme Court. The 2008 calendar, an ideal...

Article: First argument impressions of the Supreme Court. (First Arguments at the Supreme Court of the United States)
Journal of Appellate Practice and Process;  March 22, 2003 ;     700+ words ......most disconcerting thing about the Supreme Court is that it is truly a court of last...realized before my first appearance at the Supreme Court just how comforting it is in day-to-d...this premise, but when I got to the Supreme Court, its absence loomed large. This was...

Article: Paper chaser: how a young, self-employed lawyer became the best Supreme Court litigator in Washington.(10 Miles Square)
Washington Monthly;  July 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...If you happened to drop by the Supreme Court session on April 26, during which the...level. Lawyers who argue before the Supreme Court often describe it as the pinnacle of...he became a justice himself.) But if Supreme Court advocacy has always been the Matterhorn...

Article: Why me? (First Arguments at the Supreme Court of the United States)
Journal of Appellate Practice and Process;  March 22, 2003 ;     700+ words ......I was asked to write about my first Supreme Court argument, I wondered what could possibly...to ask anyone about his or her first Supreme Court argument: Why were you hired? That...the world would anyone entrust their Supreme Court case to someone who had never argued...

Article: An unknown but not a secret process: appointment of Supreme Court Justices.
Canadian Parliamentary Review;  June 22, 2004 ;     700+ words ......implement prior review of appointments of Supreme Court of Canada judges. In March and April...method of appointing Justices of the Supreme Court in an appearance before the Committee...importance to our country. For the Supreme Court--as the highest appellate court and...

Article: The Supreme Court of Canada: its history, powers and responsibilities.
Journal of Appellate Practice and Process;  March 22, 2002 ;     700+ words ......INTRODUCTION In September 2000, the Supreme Court of Canada celebrated its 125th anniversary...steps taken through which the modern Supreme Court of Canada has emerged from its unpromising...hope, afford an understanding of the Supreme Court of Canada's tradition as well as a...

Article: A rarefied kind of dread. (First Arguments at the Supreme Court of the United States)
Journal of Appellate Practice and Process;  March 22, 2003 ;     700+ words ......representing death-row inmates. But when the Supreme Court grants certiorari in a death-sentenced...matter. But if the legal claim that the Supreme Court has agreed to consider seems very strong...your claim only seems strong because Supreme Court precedent suggests that you're ...

Article: The Supreme Court Shot Itself in the Foot While Shooting Down Al Gore.
Reason;  March 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......constitutionalist, the proper reaction to the U.S. Supreme Court's majority opinion in Bush v. Gore...deciding disputed elections, the U.S. Supreme Court has done more than exceed the bounds...blame Bush or his team for what the Supreme Court did wrong--I'd be first in line to...

Article: Supreme Court
West's Encyclopedia of American Law;      700+ words ...SUPREME COURT An appellate tribunal with high powers...government and each state government has a supreme court, though some states have given their highest court a different name. A supreme court is the highest court in its jurisdiction...

Article: Supreme Court: Linder.(Editorials)(Appeals court judge is best qualified candidate)(Editorial)
The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR);  April 22, 2006 ;     687 words ......for the Position 6 seat on the Oregon Supreme Court makes an articulate case that the state...case for her kind of diversity on the Supreme Court. She can simply hold up a photo of...and winning a case before the U.S. Supreme Court in 1992. Her accomplishments led to...

Article: Reflections on the role of appellate courts: a view from the Supreme Court.
Journal of Appellate Practice and Process;  March 22, 2006 ;     700+ words ......discussing the jurisprudence of the modern Supreme Court. One of the professors addressed what...professor, I understand that analyzing the Supreme Court is part of a legal academic's job and...attention on the ways in which the Supreme Court is similar to and different from other...

Article: Tort tales: the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Wyeth v. Levine will raise the costs for product liability litigation across a host of industries, according to legal experts, but insurance buyers aren't likely to feel its effects for now as there's still plenty of capacity in the market.(INDUSTRY RISK REPORT: PHARMACEUTICALS)
Risk & Insurance;  June 1, 2009 ;     700+ words ......empt federal regulations, the U.S. Supreme Court finds in Wyeth. * Litigation costs...turn out this way. In March, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the right of state courts to...products. Long-time observers of the U.S. Supreme Court were stumped. Include among them Philip...