Carter Phillips

8 Aug, 2011

My Top Three Questions Presented from the Supreme Court’s 2010 Term

Shon R. Hopwood2019-03-18T18:47:55-05:00August 8th, 2011|Tags: 2010 Term, Carter Phillips, Dan Himmelfarb, Dan Ortiz, Elena Kagan, Paul Clement, Peter Keisler, Questions Presented, Robert Owen, Seth Waxman, Theodore Bourtrous Jr.|

As I explained last year, there may be no more daunting task in all Supreme Court practice than distilling a 9,000-word—or hopefully less—cert petition down to one or two Questions Presented. Although crafting QP’s are difficult, you can improve your QP’s by combining a few of the following techniques with lots of [...]

8 Jun, 2011

Matters of Practice: Citations and Quotations in U.S. Supreme Court Briefs

Shon R. Hopwood2019-03-18T18:47:58-05:00June 8th, 2011|Tags: "v" in versus, Carter Phillips, citations, John Elwood, matters of practice, Orin Kerr, Paul Clement, quotations, Supreme Court briefs, Tim Coates, Tom Goldstein, Walter Dellinger|

I will be writing a series of posts (entitled “Matters of Practice”) on the most frequently asked questions I receive about filing briefs in the U.S. Supreme Court. This is the first post in the series. At Cockle Printing, I am often asked what citation style the Supreme Court prefers and whether the [...]