JD Journal » justice thomas http://www.jdjournal.com Legal Industry News Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:43:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Sotomayor Issues First Opinion http://www.jdjournal.com/2009/12/08/sotomayor-issues-first-opinion/ http://www.jdjournal.com/2009/12/08/sotomayor-issues-first-opinion/#comments Wed, 09 Dec 2009 01:39:03 +0000 joshua http://www.jdjournal.com/?p=18182 The Supreme Court handed down several decisions today, including the first written by Justice Sotomayor. In keeping with tradition, it was a unanimous decision, although Justice Thomas issued a concurrence. The case was Mohawk Industries V. Carpenter, an attorney-client privilege case in which the Court upheld the lower court’s ruling that a federal judge’s decision releasing documents created by Mohawk Industries’ lawyer could not be appealed.

The highly anticipated ruling in the Citizens United case was not handed down.

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]]> http://www.jdjournal.com/2009/12/08/sotomayor-issues-first-opinion/feed/ 0 Sotomayor Emerges as the Court’s Most Prolific Questioner http://www.jdjournal.com/2009/11/16/sotomayor-emerges-as-the-courts-most-prolific-questioner/ http://www.jdjournal.com/2009/11/16/sotomayor-emerges-as-the-courts-most-prolific-questioner/#comments Mon, 16 Nov 2009 08:53:48 +0000 joshua http://www.jdjournal.com/?p=17895 Nobody expected her to be a wallflower, but Justice Sotomayor has exceeded expectations when it comes to questioning lawyers during oral arguments. In a report issued by the National Law Journal, Sotomayor came out on top in the number of questions asked so far this term with 146. Chief Justice Roberts followed with 110 questions.

According to the NLJ, the Court as a whole has become more talkative in recent years, with the number of questions and interruptions steadily increasing – for all except Justice Thomas, who hasn’t asked a question since 2006.

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