Maryland’s top court will be rescheduling June oral arguments for September — the opening month of its 2020-2021 term —  in light of delays resulting from emergency efforts to stanch the viral spread of COVID-19. As a result, the Court ...

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Maryland’s second-highest court has postponed its pandemic-compelled remote oral arguments for Friday due to concerns about the security of Zoom, the free online videoconferencing site the state judiciary had used until Thursday. The Court of Special Appeals stated in an ...

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The Maryland appellate courts’ pandemic-compelled move to oral arguments by videoconference rather than in person could alter the subtle but often crucial dynamics of these sessions in which attorneys try to convince the judges to see the law their way. ...

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ANNAPOLIS – The Maryland Court of Appeals on Tuesday postponed the eight oral arguments it was scheduled to hear during the first week of April due to the COVID-19 pandemic that has spurred the high court’s chief judge to suspend ...

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Maryland’s second-highest court will soon begin announcing at least one week before oral arguments the names of the three judges who will hear a particular day’s appeals, a break from the court’s long-held practice of withholding the announcement of names until ...

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Much like the sacrifice bunt in baseball or the keytar in pop music, the federal appellate court oral argument is slowly fading away.

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The aspect of pending oral argument that proved the most challenging to prepare for was a horrible affliction of nerves. Here's how I mitigated them.

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News reports that Justice Clarence Thomas ended 10 years of silence during oral arguments Monday reminds me of the story of the 5-year-old boy who had yet to speak a word.

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Do any of you judges and lawyers out there have a favorite all-time oral argument?

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One of my more uncomfortable moments in the appellate courtroom occurred about a year ago when, as I waited for my case to be argued, somebody called my client’s cell phone during the oral argument of the case immediately preceding ours.

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