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‘Not there to trip you up’: 10th Circuit judges encourage, warn lawyers about appeal strategy
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Three members of the federal appeals court based in Denver provided a rare glimpse on Thursday into their work of deciding cases, sharing both words of encouragement and warning about how to best present an argument in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit. “Think about oral argument as a conversation,” said Judge…
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Oral arguments, caseloads and bad lawyering: Appellate judges and justices provide peek behind judicial curtain
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Nearly all members of the Colorado Supreme Court and half of the judges on the Court of Appeals convened with attorneys on Friday to give a behind-the-scenes tour of the inner workings of the judiciary, and to voice concern about the escalating number of issues they are being asked to decide in appeals. The topics…
