Sentence examples for justices interest from inspiring English sources
Granting a stay of a lower court's decision is usually a strong indication of the justices' interest in eventually hearing the case.
But the justices' interest was quite clearly elsewhere, in part because in the years since the case began in 1986, abortion clinics have acquired a new protective legal tool in a 1994 federal law, the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, making this case prospectively less relevant to abortion providers and protesters.
While the case, Lorillard Tobacco Co. v. Reilly, No. 00-596, offers the court an opportunity to set new rules for the constitutional protection of commercial speech, that did not seem to be the focus of the justices' interest during the argument.
Given the justices' interest in those refinements, the court seemed unlikely to rule broadly on the larger issues in the case: whether the agency and other federal regulators set minimum safety standards that states are free to augment or whether they make judgments about the optimal balance between risks and benefits that states must follow.
The focus of the justices' interest today was entirely on the legal questions raised by the case and on the implications of accepting Alabama's argument that the lower courts should never have permitted the lawsuit to proceed in the first place.
As journalists and lawyers chase down leads on whom the White House is vetting for the upcoming nomination of a Supreme Court justice, interest groups, lobbyists, and political organizations prepare to elevate their issues and causes in the vetting and confirmation processes.
At the argument last Tuesday, it emerged that several justices were interested in a larger question.
Other justices were interested in the narrower issue of whether the land transfer would be proper.
Some of the justices seemed interested in addressing these larger questions.
At the argument, it turned out that some of the justices were interested in addressing a broader point.
Several justices seemed interested in a third way DNA could be used: to assist judges in making bail determinations.
