It is true that the oral argument (available online) is striking and revealing. And, it is true that at least one person involved should be embarrassed.
Rick Sent from my iPhone On Feb 14, 2014, at 5:49 AM, "Steven Jamar" <stevenja...@gmail.com<mailto:stevenja...@gmail.com>> wrote: Judge Posner gives 1L lesson on oral advocacy to Notre Dame's lawyer on oral in freedom of religion case. Pretty basic 1L stuff. Embarrassing for the attorney — and his firm and school. http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/Posner_tells_BigLaw_chief_stop_babbling_threatens_to_end_7th_Circuit_arg/?utm_source=maestro&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=weekly_email -- Prof. Steven D. Jamar vox: 202-806-8017 Director of International Programs, Institute for Intellectual Property and Social Justice http://iipsj.org Howard University School of Law fax: 202-806-8567 http://iipsj.com/SDJ/ "Enduring high school is not the same as growing up Jewish in Prague or fighting in the French Resistance. I had no solid basis for being cool in that existential motorcycle James Dean absurdist chain-smoking hero sort of way, so I gave up being cool and settled for being pleasant." Garrison Keillor _______________________________________________ To post, send message to Religionlaw@lists.ucla.edu<mailto:Religionlaw@lists.ucla.edu> To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/religionlaw Please note that messages sent to this large list cannot be viewed as private. Anyone can subscribe to the list and read messages that are posted; people can read the Web archives; and list members can (rightly or wrongly) forward the messages to others.
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