Template:Did you know nominations/Lum v. Rice

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The result was: promoted by Vaticidalprophet (talk) 08:02, 22 October 2021 (UTC)

Lum v. Rice

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... that oral argument of Lum v. Rice before the U.S. Supreme Court was canceled because the Lums' lawyer was a poor public speaker? Source: "Flowers was not like most lawyers. He avoided public speaking at all costs ... The lawyers ceded their right to argue the case before the justices"; from Water Tossing Boulders, pp. 135-136, Adrienne Berard, 2016, Beacon Press. (

ALT1: ... that a brief in Lum v. Rice was so badly written that Justice Louis Brandeis asked Felix Frankfurter to find a lawyer the Supreme Court could appoint to argue the Lums' case? "From inside the sparsity of his home, Brandeis pored over the brief ... The entirety of its twenty-three pages was a disaster ... Upon close inspection, it would seem as if the lawyer was defending the very decision he was assigned to appeal ... Brandeis wrote to Felix Frankfurter, founder of the American Civil Liberties Union, to see if the Chinese plaintiffs could obtain better representation". Same source as above, pp. 134–35

Reviewed: St. John's Terminal

5x expanded by Daniel Case (talk). Self-nominated at 00:49, 11 October 2021 (UTC).

New enough, long enough: 523 to 2833 words. Prefer ALT 1. Ceoil (talk) 11:41, 19 October 2021 (UTC)

Earwig at 67%, but this is largely due to quoting two or three paras from the rulings. Ceoil (talk) 15:05, 19 October 2021 (UTC)