Please refrain from bringing the following items into the courtroom when the court is sitting: cameras, radios, pagers, mobile phones, iPods, MP3 players, other electronic devices, hats, coats, magazines, books, briefcases and luggage. A cloakroom and lockers are available on the first floor. Visitors should be aware that the falls can attract large crowds, with queues forming before the building opens. Of course, there are inevitable delays associated with processing and welcoming a large number of visitors, and your cooperation and patience will be appreciated. The court police will endeavor to let you know as soon as possible if you can expect to get a place in the courtroom. Numerous Supreme Court pleadings and/or transcripts are also available in the published multi-volume sentence Landmark Briefs and Arguments of the Supreme Court of the United States: Constitutional Law, edited by Professors Gerald Gunther and Gerhard Casper.6 The volumes of this sentence contain oral transcripts of the reasoning and all written procedural documents submitted to the Court (including amicus Curiae`s briefs). for important cases in constitutional law that were considered “milestones” by the drafters. This set is also available in various law libraries.7 3 The Supreme Court`s website is located at www.supremecourt.gov (click first on Oral Arguments and then on “Argumentation Protocols”). GEDRUCKTE TRANSKRIPTE: Heritage Reporting Corporation 1220 L Street, NW, Suite 206 Washington, DC 20005-4018 Telefon: (202) 628-4888 Fax: (202) 371-0935 Website: www.hrccourtreporters.com Email: contracts@hrccourtreporters.com Alderson Reporting Company, Inc. Eisenhower Parkway Ann Arbor, MI 48106 Phone: (334) 303-7217 Website www.proquest.com MICROFILM/MICROFICHE U.S. Supreme Court Oral Arguments Proquest 789 E.

Eisenhower Parkway Ann Arbor, MI 48108 Phone: 1-800-521-0600 or 734-761-4700 (above) Visitors should be aware that cases can attract large crowds, with queues forming well before the building opens. Courtroom seating is limited and business can attract crowds of different sizes. Therefore, it can be difficult to predict an arrival time that guarantees seats. Seating for one session begins at 9:30 a.m. Visitors can queue at the Front Plaza as soon as they feel comfortable. You will go through a security check when you enter the building and again when you enter the courtroom. Weapons or other dangerous or illegal objects are not allowed on the premises or in the building. Visitors are not allowed to bring electronic devices into the courtroom when the court is in session: cameras, mobile phones, tablets, pages, recorders or similar items. Visitors are also not allowed to bring hats, coats, magazines, books, briefcases or luggage.

Sunglasses, identification tags (except military), display buttons and inappropriate clothing should not be worn. On the first floor, a cloakroom is available to check coats and other personal items. Lockers for cameras and other valuables are available. The cloakroom closes 30 minutes after the adjournment of the court. Where can I find information on how to sit in the courtroom and attend the oral proceedings? The court hears about 70 to 80 cases orally each year. Arguments are an opportunity for judges to ask questions directly to lawyers representing the parties to the case, and for lawyers to highlight arguments that they deem particularly important. Consultations are usually scheduled on certain Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday mornings, starting on the first Monday in October and ending until the end of April. As a rule, the court holds two oral arguments each day from 10:00 a.m., each lasting one hour. The days of negotiation are indicated in the Court`s annual calendar.

The specific cases to be heard each day and the lawyers to prosecute them are indicated on the hearing lists for each meeting and the day of the convocation for each reasoning session. Courtroom seating is available to the public on a first-come, first-served basis. Many pleading recordings are also available on the Oyez project website.5 This website provides access to over 5,000 hours of audio in mp3 format. Cases cover a wide range of periods and areas of constitutional law and are digitized from actual copies of the official records of argumentation of the National Archives. To access the arguments on the website, click on “Case” on the home page to search by title, quote, subject or date. Starting on the first Monday in October, the court usually hears two one-hour oral arguments a day, at 10 a.m. and 11 a.m., with occasional afternoon sittings scheduled if necessary. Consultations take place on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays at two-week intervals until the end of April (with longer breaks in December and February). Trial schedules are published on the Court`s website under the link “Oral Proceedings”. During breaks between argument sessions, judges are busy drafting expert opinions, deciding which cases to hear in the future, and reading arguments for the next argument session.

They grant consideration to approximately 80 of the more than 7,000 to 8,000 applications submitted to the Court during each legislature. No one knows exactly when the court will make a decision in a litigated case, nor is there a set time limit for judges to make a decision. However, all cases heard during a court term are decided before the start of the summer recess, usually at the end of June. During a week of reasoning, judges meet in a private conference, which is even closed to staff, to discuss cases and hold a preliminary vote on each case. If the Chief Justice has a majority in a case decision, he or she decides who writes the opinion. He may decide to write it himself, or he may delegate this task to another majority judge. If the Chief Justice is in the minority, the majority judge, who has the highest seniority, assumes the duty of duty. The Supreme Court`s calendar can be found on the home page. To find out which cases are on the Court`s note for the hearing, click on the days of motivation highlighted in red. The list of cases appears below the calendar. For more information about each case, click the case name, and then click the Featured Questions link again. Beginning in October 2010, audio recordings of all oral submissions from the U.S.

Supreme Court will be made available to the public free of charge on the Court`s website, www.supremecourt.gov.