Word: thumbprint
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1990
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...very heady feeling for a 24-year-old to be arguing with a Supreme Court Justice about what constitutional law should be," says San Francisco lawyer Dean Gloster, who clerked for Justice Byron White, himself a former clerk. The possibility always exists of placing one's thumbprint on the jurisprudence of the nation...
...what a thumbprint it can be. Each term the court must choose the 150 or so cases it will consider out of more than 4,000 petitions. The Justices -- six of whom pool their clerks for this purpose -- lean on the memos of their young assistants to help them pick the cases to hear. Once the docket is ^ selected, the clerks turn out even more detailed documents, called bench memos, exploring and analyzing all possible sides of the disputes, to prepare their Justices for the oral arguments...