Her lawyer, Bert W. Rein, was questioned closely by the more liberal justices about whether she suffered the sort of injury that gives her standing to sue.
What ensued was a disagreement among the state's justices about whether a small business could be exempt from the state law that prohibits sex discrimination.
Mr. Gore's chief lawyer in the case, David Boies, had to answer questions from five of the seven justices about whether the court had a proper role in the appeal, whether it could legitimately overrule the trial judge who ruled decisively against Mr. Gore on Monday, and whether the court could count disputed ballots from only a few counties.
With only 30 minutes to make their final case, lawyers for Vice President Al Gore returned today to the Florida Supreme Court to plead his contest of the state's presidential election, but encountered repeated skepticism from several justices about whether the court should get involved at all.
He was defending the individual mandate while also attempting to address an earlier question from Justice Anthony Kennedy about whether "this is a step beyond what our cases have allowed, the affirmative duty to act to go into commerce".
In answering Justice Alito about whether the government was building on earlier precedents, Mr. Dreeben may have been signaling the government would prefer to lose the Skilling case on narrow grounds than to have the court strike down the law in its entirety as too vague.
ANNALS OF JUSTICE about cutting prison education programs, which opens the debate of whether a prison is for rehabilitation, or for retribution and deterrence.
DAVIDSON: I want to go back five years, to the moment right after 9/11 when we talked a lot about justice, about bringing the perpetrators to justice, and to the question of whether there has been justice for 9/11.
Oral arguments before the court came to a conclusion with the justices hearing arguments about whether the law would be viable without the mandate.
Several justices sounded puzzled about whether these laws, or the New York agreement with the shippers, might themselves be pre-empted.
