{"id":547,"date":"2009-05-27T10:07:32","date_gmt":"2009-05-27T15:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cavanaghwilliams.com\/blawg\/?p=547"},"modified":"2009-05-27T10:07:32","modified_gmt":"2009-05-27T15:07:32","slug":"us-study-says-party-who-gets-the-most-questions-from-the-judges-will-lose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cavanagh.ca\/blog\/?p=547","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Study Says Party Who Gets the Most Questions from the Judges Will Lose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an interesting <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/05\/26\/us\/26bar.html?_r=1&amp;hp\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a><\/strong> in the New York Times this week,\u00a0we learn that, in cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, the party to whom the majority of the judges&#8217; questions are directed will lose 86 percent of the time. The observation was first made and tested by a second year law student. It was then picked up by now-Chief Justice Roberts, who confirmed the results for himself. According to the article, the finding has also been substantiated by &#8220;elaborate studies from teams of professors&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>We were curious to know whether the questions of Supreme Court justices in this country are as reliable a predictor. Who better to ask than <a href=\"http:\/\/langmichener.ca\/index.cfm?fuseaction=people.personDetail&amp;id=9678\" target=\"_blank\">Eugene Meehan, Q.C.<\/a> (who has spent some time in the S.C.C., fielding questions from the bench)?<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Meehan was interested in the results of the U.S. studies, but said that he did not see that correlation before the Canadian court. Any enterprising second-year law students out there who can conduct an empirical study?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an interesting article in the New York Times this week,\u00a0we learn that, in cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, the party to whom the majority of the judges&#8217; questions are directed will lose 86 percent of the time. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cavanagh.ca\/blog\/?p=547\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appeals"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cavanagh.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cavanagh.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cavanagh.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cavanagh.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cavanagh.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cavanagh.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cavanagh.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cavanagh.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cavanagh.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}