"I think we will be faced with a series of straightforward questions that will best be addressed as they come up.
He said, "The use of pro curiam opinions of this sort, adopting in full the reasoning of a district court without further elaboration, is normally reserved for cases that present straightforward questions that do not require exploration or elaboration by the court of appeals.
Judge Cabranes pointed out that the pro curiam approach that simply adopts the district court's reasoning is reserved for cases that involve only, quote, "straightforward questions that do not require explanation," unquote.
There are two straightforward questions that the simulation results can be used to answer.
Why isn't that a straightforward question of sexual discrimination?
He then followed up with the question, "why isn't that a straightforward question of sexual [not sexual orientation] discrimination?" (Transcript, page 62).
Why isn't that a straightforward question of sexual discrimination?" Donald Verrilli, the Obama administration's solicitor general, likes the equal-protection case.
Why isn't that a straightforward question of sexual discrimination?" Under the Equal Protection Clause, distinctions based on gender must have an "exceedingly persuasive justification".
To modern ears this sounds like a straightforward empirical question that can only be addressed scientifically.
The press secretary also declined to answer a straightforward question about the unemployment rate, suggesting that the number will henceforth be whatever the Trump administration wants it to be.
