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By: Kennedy’s School-Press Incident Wasn’t the First « My Daily Joe

Kennedy’s School-Press Incident Wasn’t the First « My Daily Joe — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:51:04 +0000

[...] The Colonial removed the passage from its Web site but Prof. Orin Kerr, a former Kennedy clerk, preserved it in a blog post. [...]

By: Donald Clarke

Donald Clarke — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:00:50 +0000

I was there, too, and heard the same thing that Orin did, although I thought his point was a little different: that briefs by their nature aren’t the most riveting of reading. After all, never? That suggests the problem is in the genre, not in the lawyers who write them, at least a few of whom must be very, very good at it.

By: Mike McDougal

Mike McDougal — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:41:03 +0000

Goat Scape: Most judges will tell you that the vast majority of briefs are way too long. They’re verbose & repetitive, and they’re chock full of legalisms. Their style is designed to be sleep-inducing.

Most judges are idiots who barely read the briefs in the first instance. Once you get outside of federal practice, you're lucky if the judge applies a bar-exam level of legal knowledge to the case.

By: Bleepless

Bleepless — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:41:07 +0000

Are you sure the operative word was not “muddle?”

By: Leo Marvin

Leo Marvin — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:30:20 +0000

Every Californian forced to winter in D.C. laments the length of the briefs.

By: Malvolio

Malvolio — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:01:15 +0000

Goat Scape: Most judges will tell you that the vast majority of briefs are way too long.

Most lawyers are paid by the hour, not by the victory.

By: krs

krs — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:17:13 +0000

The reporter’s psychic abilities keep interfering with his/her reporting…

By: Anon Y. Mous

Anon Y. Mous — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:42:23 +0000

Fake, but accurate?

By: cboldt

cboldt — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:37:06 +0000

– Rather, he was
suggesting that legal briefs tend to take too long to make their point –
Or that by the time he read half way, he got the point. The second half being repetition.

By: Goat Scape

Goat Scape — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:53:16 +0000

Rather, he was suggesting that legal briefs tend to take too long to make their point, and as a result they can be somewhat tedious to read.

Most judges will tell you that the vast majority of briefs are way too long. They’re verbose & repetitive, and they’re chock full of legalisms. Their style is designed to be sleep-inducing.

By: scotus_ant

scotus_ant — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:50:06 +0000

That GW journalism department. Top of the list those kids…

By: eyesay

eyesay — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:28:42 +0000

Does "go down the middle on" have anything to do with a giant sucking sound? Or, a Slippery slope? Or Foreign Affairs?

By: Tuesday round-up | SCOTUSblog

Tuesday round-up | SCOTUSblog — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:12:42 +0000

[...] Orin Kerr at Volokh posted an afternoon follow-up to the above-referenced Daily Colonial article. Kerr, who attended the conferences, believes [...]

By: anon

anon — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:50:16 +0000

If you’re correct, then that misquote doesn’t seem funny in the slightest.

By: jsimmons

jsimmons — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:32:39 +0000

I am thankful, at least, that they did not take his “one-sixpack and two-sixpack briefs” quote out of context.

I don’t believe there was a single story in which I was quoted by the student newspaper at my undergraduate university in which I was not taken out of context or misquoted entirely. Using shorthand to take down exact quotes is apparently a rare and incredible talent journalists do not acquire until well after leaving college.