The briefer presented President Bush with fifteen to twenty pages of material, but did not read them to him.
By 8 a.m., he is in the Oval Office to be with Mr. Bush when the president first sees his own copy of the brief, presented by another briefer and the director of central intelligence, Porter J. Goss.
To help us better understand this decision, CUpS sat down with Craig Johnston, professor of environmental law at Lewis & Clark Law School, and the lead author (on behalf of the NRDC) of one of the briefs presented to the Supreme Court in this case.
"We've had to use statements by judges [in support of the associates who write the briefs presenting them in court] to convince even our female clients to allow female associates to appear in court," she said, because there was no direct way to call the behavior discriminatory without alienating the client.
The brief demo presented by CEO Sundar Pichai raised far more questions than it answered.
The brief present-day scenes, in which the aging Powell reminisces over drinks and dominoes with the reporter, are full of vivid tropical colors, in contrast with the longer segments from yesteryear, done in more muted tones.
Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. also echoed one of the questions posed in writing in briefs presented to the court when he asked: "If Sue loves Joe and Tom loves Joe, Sue can marry him and Tom can't.
The briefing papers presented to Mr. Berger acknowledged several risks, including the possibility that people would be killed during the raid and that Mr. bin Laden's supporters in Afghanistan might retaliate by kidnapping American citizens in Kandahar.
In a legal brief presented to the Massachusetts court, representatives of the real estate industry said there were thousands of foreclosure cases in the state with facts like those in the Ibanez matter.
Asked by Senator Evan Bayh, Democrat of Indiana, if the briefing would present some concrete suggestion that the level of consulting payments from a client compromised audits of that client, Mr. Levitt responded, "I'd prefer to let the briefing speak for itself".
