The NJSBA Annual Meeting in Atlantic City featured a program today on the “nuts and bolts” of appellate practice.  The panel of speakers was headed by Judges Carchman and Messano.  Naturally, many of the “nuts and bolts” were the kinds of things that, though useful, have been said elsewhere, such as here and here.  At least three pointers, however, were about

Yesterday’s New York Times contained a column by Adam Liptak, who covers the Supreme Court of the United States, entitled “Are Oral Arguments Worth Arguing About?”  That column makes the point that, ultimately, whether an appellate oral advocate delivers his or her oral argument seamlessly matters far less than the merits of the case. 

The specific context of the column was criticism in some quarters of the quality of the oral argument mad

A recent posting about citations to Wikipedia in the federal Circuit Courts of Appeals leads to the question of what the attitude is toward Wikipedia in the Supreme Court of New Jersey, the Appellate Division, and the Third Circuit Court of Appeals.  The answer seems to be that the courts are not necessarily enthusiastic about Wikipedia.

Apparently, no Supreme Court of New Jersey case has relied on Wikipedia.  Only one opinion of the Appellate Division, Palisade