Sentence examples for stack of briefs from inspiring English sources

The case has stirred old passions and prompted the filing of a foot-high stack of briefs by "friends of the court" on both sides of the issue.

So it should be no surprise that after all these years, long after other landmarks of the Warren Court's criminal procedure revolution were comfortably absorbed by the criminal justice system, Miranda v. Arizona still stirs passions, as the foot-high stack of briefs filed in the pending Supreme Court case attests.

She picked up her stack of briefing papers and let them fall on the table with a thud.

"There's not a lot of heavy lifting," he told reporters, "but reading a stack of briefing books can be pretty boring".

Unfortunately (and rather surprisingly, given the government would have known ahead of time that it had no actual business to put on the notice paper) government senators appeared to have left their stack of briefing notes on local worthy people at home.

All we had were a stack of brief email rejections, telling us we'd violated the guidelines, but not exactly sure how.

The only hint of disorder in her house is on the dining room table, where there are stacks of briefing books piled askew.

Witnessing a member of Congress dialing for dollars from total strangers at $500 a pop brought home for me the dimension of our campaign finance problem as no stack of legal briefs ever did.

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The bitter arguing, the turnover of lawyers and the stacks of legal briefs have come to resemble the case at the heart of Charles Dickens's "Bleak House".

The matter began on Sept. 13, when a former Democratic congressman, Thomas Downey, who had been assigned the part of Mr. Bush in the Gore campaign's debate rehearsals, received in the mail a videotape of one of Mr. Bush's debate practice sessions and a stack of related confidential briefing papers.