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When The Supreme Court Comes Calling: WilmerHale Partner Invited To Argue Next Term
05 August 2015
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When the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to review a Tenth Circuit
decision, it had one problem: neither of the parties actually
agreed with the circuit court's reasoning. So the task of
finding someone to defend the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth
Circuit's position fell to Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the circuit
justice for the Tenth Circuit. She landed on Wilmer Cutler
Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP partner Catherine M.A. Carroll,
Washington, to argue Green v. Brennan, granted, 83
U.S.L.W. 3819 (U.S. April 27, 2015) (No. 14-613). But like so many
other aspects of U.S. Supreme Court practice, how Sotomayor made
her pick is cloaked in mystery.
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Originally published by Bloomberg BNA - August 4, 2015
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