arcane question

[Mark Graber]

Ted White discusses this in his book on the Marshall Court.  My memory
is that the court reporter asked the lawyer to supply him with copies of
the brief and/or oral argument, but I have forgotten which.

MAG

>>> Fred Shapiro <fred.shapiro at yale.edu> 06/30/05 11:41AM >>>
On Tue, 28 Jun 2005, Scott Gerber wrote:

> Earl Maltz wrote:
> 
> >  The reports of old decisions in S. Ct. begin with descriptions of
the 
> >arguments made by counsel on both sides.  Does anyone know if the 
> >description refer to written briefs or, instead, to oral arguments?

I ask Morris Cohen, who probably knows more about this kind of thing
than 
anyone else, and he says that the description may refer to written
briefs 
(which may no longer be extant) or may refer to oral arguments.  Often 
there is no way of telling which it was for a given old case.

Fred Shapiro


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