query: what current member of the supreme court was once the solicitor general

pos: Solicitor General of the United States is among the most influential and knowledgeable members of the legal community with regard to Supreme Court litigation. Six Solicitors General have later served on the Supreme Court: William Howard Taft (who served as the 27th President of the United States before becoming Chief Justice of the United States), Stanley Forman Reed, Robert H. Jackson, Thurgood Marshall, and Elena Kagan. Some who have had other positions in the office of the Solicitor General have also later been appointed to the Supreme Court. For example, Chief Justice John Roberts was the Principal Deputy Solicitor General during the George H. W. Bush

pos: Elena Kagan Supreme Court nomination Elena Kagan Supreme Court nomination On May 10, 2010, President Barack Obama announced his selection of Elena Kagan for Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, to replace retiring Justice John Paul Stevens. Kagan's nomination was confirmed by a 63–37 vote of the United States Senate on August 5, 2010. When nominated, Kagan was Solicitor General of the United States, to which she had been appointed by Barack Obama. She had previously been a contender for the retiring David Souter's seat in 2009, but was passed over in favor of current Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. Prior

pos: Solicitor General of the United States administration and Associate Justice Samuel Alito was an Assistant to the Solicitor General. The last former Solicitor General to be successfully nominated to the court was Justice Elena Kagan. Only one former Solicitor General has been nominated to the Supreme Court unsuccessfully, that being Robert Bork; however, no sitting Solicitor General has ever been denied such an appointment. Eight other Solicitors General have served on the United States Courts of Appeals. Within the Justice Department, the Solicitor General exerts significant influence on all appeals brought by the department. The Solicitor General is the only U.S. officer that is statutorily required

pos: Neal Katyal the Affordable Care Act and won a unanimous decision from the Supreme Court defending former Attorney General John Ashcroft against alleged abuses of civil liberties in the war on terror in "Ashcroft v. al-Kidd". Katyal is also the only head of the Solicitor General's office to argue in the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. As Acting Solicitor General, Katyal succeeded Elena Kagan, whom President Barack Obama chose to replace the retiring Supreme Court Associate Justice John Paul Stevens. On May 24, 2011, speaking as Acting Solicitor General, Katyal delivered the keynote speech at the Department of Justice's Great

pos: Solicitor General of the United States at oral argument before the Court, the Solicitor General and his or her deputies traditionally appear in formal morning coats, although Elena Kagan, the only woman to hold the office, elected to forgo the practice. During oral argument, the members of the Court often address the Solicitor General as "General." Another tradition, possibly unique to the United States, is the practice of confession of error. If the government prevailed in the lower court but the Solicitor General disagrees with the result, he or she may confess error, after which the Supreme Court will vacate the lower court's ruling and send

pos: Barack Obama Supreme Court candidates a press conference alongside Sotomayor and Joe Biden. On May 10, 2010, Obama nominated Elena Kagan, the Solicitor General of the United States, to replace retiring Associate Justice John Paul Stevens. Solicitor General Elena Kagan was confirmed by the Senate by a 63-37 vote. On April 9, 2010, Associate Justice John Paul Stevens announced that he would retire at the conclusion of the Supreme Court's term in June 2010. This announcement had been widely anticipated since September 2009 when Stevens confirmed that he had hired only a single law clerk for the Supreme Court term beginning in October 2010. (Full-time

pos: Court dress the Solicitor General maintained the practice. When the Solicitor General (or any of the deputies) appears before the U.S. Supreme Court, they wear morning dress, with striped trousers, grey ascot, waistcoat, and a cutaway morning coat. A feminized version is sometimes worn by female deputies, which consists of the same garments tailored to female measurements. Former Solicitor General Elena Kagan, the only woman to hold the office to date, appeared before the Court in pantsuits in lieu of morning dress. The traditional female equivalent of morning dress, "softly flowing dresses with hats", is strictly for social purposes and would be

neg: Solicitor General of the United States the case back for reconsideration. Solicitor General of the United States The Solicitor General of the United States is the fourth-highest-ranking official in the United States Department of Justice. The current Solicitor General, Noel Francisco, took office on September 19, 2017. The United States Solicitor General represents the federal government of the United States before the Supreme Court of the United States. The Solicitor General determines the legal position that the United States will take in the Supreme Court. In addition to supervising and conducting cases in which the government is a party, the office of the Solicitor General also

neg: Solicitor General of the United States Solicitor General of the United States The Solicitor General of the United States is the fourth-highest-ranking official in the United States Department of Justice. The current Solicitor General, Noel Francisco, took office on September 19, 2017. The United States Solicitor General represents the federal government of the United States before the Supreme Court of the United States. The Solicitor General determines the legal position that the United States will take in the Supreme Court. In addition to supervising and conducting cases in which the government is a party, the office of the Solicitor General also files "amicus curiae" briefs in

neg: Solicitor-General of New Zealand Justice Arnold was appointed to the Supreme Court in June 2013). Solicitor-General of New Zealand The Solicitor-General of New Zealand is the second law officer of state in New Zealand. The Solicitor-General is also head of the Crown Law Office, that comprises lawyers employed to represent the Attorney-General in court proceedings in New Zealand. The current Solicitor-General is Una Jagose. Under section 9A of the Constitution Act 1986 the Solicitor-General can exercise almost all of the statutory functions conferred on the Attorney-General. As the non-political Law Officer, the Solicitor-General has traditionally assumed responsibility for the exercise of those functions that

neg: Jenner & Block a Washington D.C. practice specifically focused on appeals before the U.S. Supreme Court. It was once headed by Bruce Ennis, Jr., who argued more than a dozen cases before the Supreme Court, including three cases arising under different provisions of the same law, the landmark Telecommunications Act of 1996. The appellate practice is led by Paul M. Smith, a partner with the firm. The outgoing U.S. solicitor general, Donald Verrilli Jr., is a former member of the practice. A number of lawyers in the Washington D.C. office have served as clerks to the US Supreme Court. The firm has a

neg: Edward Williams (Victorian judge) was also appointed chairman of the Court of Quarter Sessions in January 1852. Williams would become a member of the Legislative Council from 13 April 1852, when he succeeded Redmond Barry as Solicitor-General of Victoria, after Barry was appointed a judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria. Williams was Solicitor-General for barely three months, however, since he was himself made a judge of the Supreme Court on 21 July 1852, bringing the Court to its full complement of three judges. As a judge, Williams was recognised for his diligent and efficient work at the circuit sittings of the Supreme Court

neg: Carolyn Kuhl member of the Order of the Coif and an editor of the Duke Law Journal. From 1977 to 1978, Kuhl clerked for future Supreme Court Justice, Anthony M. Kennedy, when he was an appellate judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. From 1981 to 1986, she served in the United States Department of Justice. She served as Deputy Solicitor General, Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Civil Division, and as Special Assistant to Attorney General William French Smith. As Deputy Solicitor General of the United States, she argued cases before the United States Supreme Court

neg: Solicitor-General of Australia High Court. Solicitor-General of Australia The Solicitor-General of Australia is the country's second highest-ranking law officer, after the Attorney-General for Australia. The position is often known as the Commonwealth Solicitor-General in order to distinguish it from the state solicitors-general. The current officeholder is Stephen Donaghue, who took office on 16 January 2017. The Commonwealth Solicitor-General gives the Australian federal government legal advice and appears in court to represent the Commonwealth's interest in important legal proceedings, particularly in the High Court. Unlike the attorney-general, the solicitor-general is not a member of parliament. The office was created in 1916 with the appointment

neg: Solicitor-General of Australia Solicitor-General of Australia The Solicitor-General of Australia is the country's second highest-ranking law officer, after the Attorney-General for Australia. The position is often known as the Commonwealth Solicitor-General in order to distinguish it from the state solicitors-general. The current officeholder is Stephen Donaghue, who took office on 16 January 2017. The Commonwealth Solicitor-General gives the Australian federal government legal advice and appears in court to represent the Commonwealth's interest in important legal proceedings, particularly in the High Court. Unlike the attorney-general, the solicitor-general is not a member of parliament. The office was created in 1916 with the appointment of Sir

neg: Florida Solicitor General Florida Solicitor General The Solicitor General of Florida or Florida Solicitor General is the top appellate (appeals) solicitor (lawyer) for the U.S. State of Florida. It is an appointed position in the Office of the Florida Attorney General and the individual serves at the pleasure of the Attorney General. Many of the cases handled by the Solicitor are argued in the United States Supreme Court and the Supreme Court of Florida. However some cases within the Solicitor's responsibilities are under the jurisdiction of the United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit and the state appellate courts. The Solicitor

neg: Solicitor General of the United States Although there is no deadline by which the Solicitor General is required to respond to a CVSG, briefs in response to the CVSG are generally filed at three times of the year: late May, allowing the petition to be considered before the Court breaks for summer recess; August, allowing the petition to go on the "summer list", to be considered at the end of recess; and December, allowing the case to be argued in the remainder of the current Supreme Court term. Several traditions have developed since the Office of Solicitor General was established in 1870. Most obviously to spectators

neg: Solicitor General of Ohio Solicitor General of Ohio The Solicitor General of Ohio, Ohio Solicitor General, State Solicitor of Ohio, or Ohio State Solicitor is the top appellate solicitor or lawyer for the U.S. State of Ohio. It is an appointed position in the Office of the Ohio Attorney General that focuses on the office's major appellate cases. The majority of the cases handled by the Solicitor are argued in the United States Supreme Court and the Supreme Court of Ohio. However some cases within the Solicitor's responsibilities are under the jurisdiction of the United States Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit and

neg: Michigan Solicitor General Michigan Solicitor General The Michigan Solicitor General or Solicitor General of Michigan is the top appellate lawyer for the State of Michigan. It is an appointed position in the Office of the Michigan Attorney General, with supervision over all of the office's major appellate cases and amici briefs. The majority of the matters that the Solicitor General handles are argued in the United States Supreme Court and the Michigan Supreme Court, although the Solicitor General is also responsible for Michigan's filings in the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, Michigan's appellate courts, and other federal and state

neg: Solicitor General of the United States Dreeben, Edwin Kneedler, and Malcolm Stewart. The Solicitor General or one of the deputies typically argues the most important cases in the Supreme Court. Cases not argued by the Solicitor General may be argued by one of the assistants or another government attorney. The Solicitors General tend to argue 6–9 cases per Supreme Court term, while deputies argue 4–5 cases and assistants each argue 2–3 cases. The Solicitor General, who has offices in the Supreme Court Building as well as the Department of Justice Headquarters, has been called the "tenth justice" as a result of the close relationship between the

neg: Solicitor General of Texas Solicitor General of Texas The Solicitor General of Texas is the top appellate solicitor or lawyer for the U.S. state of Texas. It is an appointed position in the Office of the Texas Attorney General that focuses on the office's major appellate cases. The majority of the cases handled by the Solicitor are argued in the United States Supreme Court and the Supreme Court of Texas. However some cases within the Solicitor's responsibilities are under the jurisdiction of the United States Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit and the state appellate courts. The Solicitor represents the Attorney General of

neg: Eva Wanasundera General and the first woman Solicitor General and first ever woman Attorney General of Sri Lanka. Eva Wanasundera served as Acting Attorney General 16 times before her appointment as Attorney General. she represented Sri Lanka at key conferences abroad. On 7 July 2012 she was appointed as a judge of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka. Wanasundera, being a senior member of the Supreme Court, has acted as Chief Justice in the absence of Chief Justice K. Sripavan. She retired two months early from the Supreme Court on 14 December 2018. Eva Wanasundera Shanthi Eva Wanasundera PC (b. January 1954)

neg: Columbia Law School government executive cabinets, including U.S. Secretary of State, Secretary of Treasury, Secretary of War (now U.S. Secretary of Defense), and Attorney General, amongst others. Three of the school's graduates have served as Chief Justice of the United States: Charles Evans Hughes, Harlan Fiske Stone and John Jay. Columbia Law School is the only law school to have graduated more than one chief justice. Nine alumni of Columbia Law School have served on the Supreme Court of the United States, including current member Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Several alumni have served as United States Solicitor General. There are over 90 current and

neg: Florida Solicitor General active cases and receive up to six hours of course credit while gaining practical experience in appellate procedures and constitutional law. The following is a table of Florida State Solicitors. Florida Solicitor General The Solicitor General of Florida or Florida Solicitor General is the top appellate (appeals) solicitor (lawyer) for the U.S. State of Florida. It is an appointed position in the Office of the Florida Attorney General and the individual serves at the pleasure of the Attorney General. Many of the cases handled by the Solicitor are argued in the United States Supreme Court and the Supreme Court of

neg: Richard Cordray ruling. In 1993 the government of Ohio created the office of state solicitor general to handle the state's appellate work. The state solicitor, appointed by the Ohio attorney general, is responsible for cases that are to be argued before the Ohio Supreme Court and the United States Supreme Court. Until 1998, the Solicitor worked without any support staff. Cordray, who had earlier worked for a summer in the office of the United States solicitor general, was the first Solicitor to be appointed, in September 1993. He held the position until he resigned after Ohio Attorney General Lee Fisher was defeated

neg: Rex E. Lee Clark Law School, before resigning to accept an appointment as an Associate Justice of the Utah Supreme Court. Another son, Mike, graduated from BYU as an undergrad and a law student, before clerking for Judge Dee Benson at the United States District Court, District of Utah, and for Justice Alito, once while he was still judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and once on the U.S. Supreme Court. In 2011, Mike became a United States Senator from Utah. Lee was an avid runner throughout his life (he was nominated to be Solicitor General two

neg: Anil Goonaratne Senior States Counsel, Deputy Solicitor General and Additional Solicitor General before being appointed to the Court of Appeal as a Judge in January 2007. Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa overlooked him several times for the post of President of the Court of Appeal as he was a member of the bench which issued a certiorari quashing the report of the Parliamentary Select Committee on the impeachment against the then Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake. In January 2015, as the most senior Appeal Court Judge, he was appointed to the Supreme Court. He retired from judiciary in December 2017. In February 2018, he

neg: Office of Defense Mobilization The Supreme Court heard oral argument for two days, May 12 and May 13. Arguing the case for the government was Solicitor General Philip B. Perlman, and representing the union was Arthur Goldberg, general counsel for the USWA and the Congress of Industrial Organizations (and a future Supreme Court justice). Former Solicitor General John W. Davis argued the case for the steelmakers. On June 2, 1952, the Supreme Court handed down its decision. In "Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer," 343 U.S. 579 (1952)—a landmark case on the scope of presidential powers—the Court ruled that the president lacked the

neg: Charles Fried had previously served as Deputy Solicitor General and Acting Solicitor General. As Solicitor General, he represented the Reagan Administration before the Supreme Court in 25 cases. In 1989, when Reagan left office, Fried returned to Harvard Law School. From September 1995 until June 1999, Fried served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, while teaching constitutional law at Harvard Law School as a Distinguished Lecturer. Prior to joining the court, Fried held the chair of Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence at Harvard Law School. On July 1, 1999, he returned to Harvard Law School as a

neg: Valentine Fleming (judge) He became solicitor-general in 1844, attorney-general in 1848, an official member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council in 1851 and chief justice of the Supreme Court of Tasmania in 1854. He was knighted in 1856 and retired on a pension of £1000 a year at the end of 1869 but was acting chief justice from 1872 to 1874. From March to May 1874 administered the government. He died near Reigate, England on 25 October 1884. He married twice: once to Elizabeth Oke, daughter of Charles Buckland, and second to Fanny Maria, daughter of William Seccombe, who survived him. Additional sources listed

neg: Daniel D. Domenico governors from both the Democratic and Republican parties. During his time as Solicitor General, he argued in state and federal courts, including the United States Supreme Court, and received the Supreme Court Best Brief Award from the National Association of Attorneys General. At the time of his appointment, he was the youngest state solicitor general in the country, and his nine years of service made him the longest serving solicitor general in Colorado history. He has also served as an adjunct professor of natural resources and advanced constitutional law at the Sturm College of Law. In early 2017, President Donald

neg: Francis Gurry Francis Gurry Francis Gurry (born 17 May 1951) is an Australian national and the fourth and current Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). He is also Secretary-General of the International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV). Gurry previously served as a Deputy Director General of WIPO from 2003 to 2008. Gurry graduated in 1974 from the University of Melbourne with a Bachelor of Laws and was admitted as a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria, Australia in 1975. He worked in Melbourne as an articled clerk and solicitor at Arthur

neg: Sidley Austin was known as Sidley Austin Brown & Wood until the name was rebranded as Sidley Austin in 2006. In 1985, U.S. Solicitor General Rex E. Lee founded Sidley Austin's Appellate Practice Group to represent clients in all appellate courts, including the United States Supreme Court, the federal courts of appeals, and state appellate and supreme courts. Following Lee's death, the group was led by Carter Phillips, who has argued more cases before the Supreme Court than any lawyer in private practice and who now chairs the firm's executive committee. The current co-chairs of the practice group are former Acting Attorney

neg: Pratik A. Shah Pratik A. Shah Pratik A. Shah is an American lawyer and current co-head of Akin Gump's Supreme Court and Appellate Practice. A graduate of Princeton University with highest honors in chemical engineering, and University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, Boalt Hall (class of 2001), Shah clerked for Judge William A. Fletcher of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit and Stephen G. Breyer of the U.S. Supreme Court in the 2003 Term. Before joining Akin Gump, Shah argued 13 cases in front of the U.S. Supreme Court as an assistant to the Solicitor General, including "United States

neg: Earl Warren Supreme Court of the United States. Warren turned down the position of Secretary of Interior in the new administration, but in August 1953 he agreed to serve as the Solicitor General of the United States. In September 1953, before Warren's nomination as solicitor general was announced, Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson died. To fill the critical position of chief justice, Eisenhower considered either elevating a sitting Supreme Court justice or appointing another individual with judicial experience, but he ultimately chose to honor his promise to appoint Warren to the first Supreme Court vacancy. Explaining Warren's qualifications for the Court, Eisenhower

neg: John J. Bursch with Warner Norcross & Judd, where he founded and chaired the firm's Appellate Practice and Public-Affairs Litigation groups. From 2011 to 2013, Bursch served as Michigan's 10th Solicitor General. As Michigan Solicitor General, Bursch argued 12 times in the Michigan Supreme Court and eight times in the U.S. Supreme Court. Afterwards, he returned to private practice with Warner Norcross & Judd until 2016, when he formed his own private law firm. , Bursch has appeared in front of the Michigan Supreme Court 27 times, and in front of the US Supreme Court 11 times. He has since represented the respondents

neg: Charles Fahy as a member of the Petroleum Administrative Board, and then served as its president from 1934-1935. As general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board from 1935–1940, Fahy began his career in Supreme Court litigation on behalf of labor rights. Upon the enactment of the Wagner Act in 1935, Fahy, on behalf of the NLRB, often appeared in front of both Houses of Congress to offer testimony and litigated cases in the Supreme Court brought against the government. By the time he was appointed assistant solicitor general in 1940, Fahy had already appeared eighteen times in front of the Supreme

neg: Seth P. Waxman the Anti-Defamation League's Benjamin N. Cardozo Certificate of Merit. Waxman joined the United States Department of Justice in May 1994. Prior to being appointed Solicitor General, he served in a number of other positions in the Department of Justice, including Acting Solicitor General, Acting Deputy Attorney General, Principal Deputy Solicitor General, and Associate Deputy Attorney General. Waxman made the oral argument to the Supreme Court in "Boumediene v. Bush" which upheld habeas corpus rights for detainees at Guantanamo Bay. Waxman also made oral arguments to the Supreme Court regarding arbitrary application of FCC sanctions on public nudity. In these arguments

neg: Stinson v. United States Stinson v. United States Stinson v. United States, 508 U.S. 36 (1993), is a decision of the United States Supreme Court that held Sentencing Commission guidelines may be cited as binding authority when courts issue sentences for criminal defendants. The case was argued at the Supreme Court March 24, 1993 by William Mallory Kent on behalf of Stinson and Paul J. Larkin for the Solicitor General of the United States. With Mr. Larkin on the Solicitor General's brief were also Acting Solicitor General Bryson, Acting Assistant Attorney General John Keeney, and John F. DePue. Robert Augustus Harper filed a brief

neg: Solicitor audience before all courts. Before the creation of the Supreme Court of Judicature under the Supreme Court of Judicature Act 1873, solicitors practised in the Court of Chancery, attorneys practised in the common law courts and proctors practised in the ecclesiastical courts. After 1873 the offices of "attorney" and "proctor" disappeared as terms relating to legally qualified persons, being replaced by "Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales", except for the unique government offices of Queen's or King's Proctor (now generally Treasury Solicitor which is co-held with the title), and Attorney-General. Since the replacement of the judicial aspect

neg: Attorney General of Indonesia Court's order. The Attorney General is also a Solicitor General. Thus, the Attorney General can represent the Government in the Supreme Court. The Attorney General has the power to indict and prosecute outlaws and law breakers. The term of office of the Attorney General was determined by the Constitutional Court of Indonesia in 2010 to be concurrent with the term of office of the President of Indonesia. The current Attorney General of Indonesia of Indonesia is HM Prasetyo, who assumed office in 2014. Attorney General of Indonesia The Attorney General of Indonesia (Jaksa Agung Republik Indonesia) is the competent authority

neg: Confession of error Confession of error Confession of error is a legal practice whereby the United States Solicitor General in his or her role representing the federal government before the Supreme Court of the United States admits a lower court incorrectly decided a case and it is thereby sent back for reconsideration. By confessing error, the Solicitor General declares that the federal government's position, which prevailed in the lower court, was wrong. The Supreme Court typically then vacates the lower court's judgment and remands the case to allow the lower court to consider it in light of the confession of error. One example

neg: Florin Hilbay issues of public injustice and to oversee the appointments process in the judiciary. He also served as the editor-in-chief of the Philippine Law and Society Review and an editor of the IBP Law Journal. Hilbay took over as acting Solicitor General on August 20, 2014, replacing Francis Jardeleza who was appointed as a Supreme Court Associate Justice. President Benigno Aquino III formally appointed Hilbay as Solicitor General on June 16, 2015. As a senior state solicitor under Jardeleza, he defended the Reproductive Health Law before the Supreme Court in 2014. He was also the principal lawyer for the Enhanced Defense

neg: Solicitor-General of New Zealand was appointed in July 2012. Mr Heron was a former partner of Meredith Connell (the firm that holds the Crown Prosecution warrant in Auckland) and more recently, Russell McVeagh. In turn, his predecessor was Dr David Collins QC, who was appointed as a Judge of the High Court in March 2012. There has been a usual practice of appointing the Solicitor General as a Judge of the High Court, although former Solicitor-General Terrence Arnold's predecessor, John McGrath QC, was appointed to the Court of Appeal in July 2000 (Justice McGrath was subsequently appointed to the Supreme Court in May 2005.

neg: Joseph Horsford Kemp the competitive examinations. In 1904, Kemp was appointed Registrar of the Land Court in Hong Kong and in 1904 Registrar of the Supreme Court of Hong Kong.He was called to the bar of Lincoln's Inn in 1911 and became Crown Solicitor in Hong Kong.In 1913, he was appointed puisne Judge of the Supreme Court of Hong Kong. Two years later, in 1915 he was appointed Attorney General of Hong Kong a position he held until 1930. In this position he was also a member of the Hong Kong Legislative Council. He was appointed a King's Counsel in 1918. He was

neg: Paul Clement biography on the website of his Washington law firm, Bancroft PLC, more than any other lawyer in private practice. Clement was mentioned as a potential Supreme Court nominee of Republican presidential nominees John McCain and Mitt Romney. In 2014, Jeffrey Toobin named Clement a likely Supreme Court nominee in the event of a Republican victory in the 2016 presidential election. Paul Clement Paul Drew Clement (born June 24, 1966) is an American lawyer. He is a former United States Solicitor General and current partner at the law firm of Kirkland & Ellis after its acquisition of his previous firm Bancroft

neg: Florida Solicitor General represents the Florida Attorney General before the Florida Supreme Court and other appellate courts, as needed. He also decides whether the State of Florida has an interest in all cases filed in the Florida Supreme Court and if the state should file or join an amicus brief. The position was created in July, 1999 at the request of Florida Attorney General Bob Butterworth and was first filled by Tom Warner. It is a similar position to Solicitors in many states and is modeled after the United States Solicitor General. By 2003, twenty-nine states had Solicitors General, although only eight had

neg: United States v. Ballin The circuit court reasoned that the act Congress had passed "expressly confined the exercise of its powers to the Secretary of the Treasury, in exclusion of any other officer" and that the collector had overstepped his bounds. The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on December 2, 1891, with Attorney General William Miller and Solicitor General William Howard Taft arguing the case for the government. Edwin B. Smith represented Ballin, Joseph & Co. Two questions were presented to the Court: "Was the act of May 9, 1890, legally passed?", and "What was the act's meaning?" On February 29, 1892, the Court

neg: Confession of error is that of Solicitor General Drew Days III, who argued in a petition for certiorari in "Knox v. United States" that the Circuit Court's decision had been wrong, even though the Circuit Court had found in favor of the government. He urged the Supreme Court to vacate Knox's conviction for possession of child pornography; they remanded the case to Circuit Court. Confession of error Confession of error is a legal practice whereby the United States Solicitor General in his or her role representing the federal government before the Supreme Court of the United States admits a lower court incorrectly decided

neg: Law Officers of the Crown the trustee of default where a sole trustee has died, and can also take cases to the Supreme Court where points of general legal importance need to be settled. The Attorney General's deputy is the Solicitor General for England and Wales, currently Robert Buckland. Under the Law Officers Act 1997, the Solicitor General may do anything on behalf of, or in the place of, the Attorney General, and vice versa. Under the Government of Wales Act 2006, the Counsel General for Wales is the chief legal adviser to, and a member of, the Welsh Government. Under the recent constitutional reforms,

neg: Irving L. Gornstein Irving L. Gornstein Irving "Irv" L. Gornstein is the Executive Director of the Supreme Court Institute and a Visiting Professor at Georgetown University Law Center. He teaches Criminal Justice, Constitutional Law I, and co-teaches a Supreme Court Institute Workshop with Williams & Connolly's partner Kannon Shanmugam. Prior to coming to the Georgetown Law Center in 2012, he worked at O'Melveny & Myers where he specialized in appellate advocacy and U.S. Supreme Court litigation. Prior to that, Gornstein spent 13 years in the United States Solicitor General's as a Deputy Solicitor General where he argued 36 cases before the Supreme Court.

neg: John J. Bursch (NAAG) awarded Bursch and three colleagues a Supreme Court Best Brief Award for their petitioner's brief in "Howes v. Fields". In 2013, NAAG again awarded Bursch and two colleagues a Supreme Court Best Brief Award for their cert. petition in Schuette v. Coalition to Defend, and in 2014, Bursch was again awarded the Best Brief Award for his brief in "Burt v. Titlow". John J. Bursch John J. Bursch (born 1972) was the 10th Michigan Solicitor General. He was appointed by Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette on February 28, 2011. Prior to being Michigan Solicitor General, Bursch served as chair

neg: Office of the Solicitor General of the Philippines the Solicitor General. Under Section 40 of this Act, the Attorney General, as head of the Bureau of Justice, was vested with the powers and functions of today's Solicitor General. At the time, the Solicitor General was second only to the Attorney General in the office the former would eventually head. Appropriately, Section 41 of the Act required an "officer learned in the law" to assist the Attorney General. This law specifically provided that "it should be the special duty of the Solicitor General to conduct and argue suits and appeals in the Supreme Court, in which the Philippine Government

neg: John W. Davis U.S. Supreme Court during his career. 73 were as Solicitor General, and 67 as a private lawyer. Lawrence Wallace, who retired from the Office of the Solicitor General in 2003, argued 157 cases during his career but many believe that few attorneys have argued more cases than Davis. Daniel Webster and Walter Jones are believed to have argued more cases than Davis, but they were lawyers of a much earlier era. One of Davis' most influential arguments before the Supreme Court was in "Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer" in May 1952, when the Court ruled on Truman's seizure

neg: Solicitor General of Texas Texas before the Supreme Court of Texas and other appellate courts, as needed. The Office of the Solicitor General writes most of the amicus briefs filed by the Texas attorney general’s office. The position was created in January 1999 by Texas Attorney General John Cornyn and was first filled by Greg Coleman. It is a similar position to solicitors in many states and is modeled after the Solicitor General of the United States. The office has two deputies and other assistant solicitors general. The following is a table of Solicitors General of Texas. (6) Solicitor General of Texas The Solicitor

neg: Edwin Kneedler Kneedler joined the Office of Legal Counsel in the United States Department of Justice. He then joined the office of the Solicitor General in June 1979. He was appointed a Deputy Solicitor General in 1993. On March 17, 2008, he argued his 100th case before the Supreme Court. Kneedler became Acting Solicitor General on January 20, 2009, with the expiration of the presidential term of George W. Bush. Kneedler was appointed by Bush on January 16, 2009 to replace Gregory G. Garre, whose term as Solicitor General concluded on January 16, 2009. Kneedler's tenure as Acting United States Solicitor General

neg: Burton v. United States but instead opted for a direct appeal to the Supreme Court. On July 2, Judge Adams certified Burton's direct appeal on the grounds that Burton was convicted of an "infamous offense." Burton posted a $10,000 bond. On July 11, Justice Brewer allowed the direct appeal. Before the Supreme Court, on November 30 and December 1, 1904, Burton was represented by (former judge) John Forrest Dillon and (future Solicitor General) Frederick William Lehmann at oral argument, with Harry Hubbard and W.H. Rossington also on the brief. Solicitor General Henry M. Hoyt represented the United States. On January 16, 1905, the Court

neg: Gopal Subramanium later under Soli Sorabjee, former Attorney General. In 1993, Mr. Subramanium was designated a Senior Advocate (the equivalent of a Queen's Counsel in the UK) suo motu by the Supreme Court, one of the youngest to be so designated in the Supreme Court's history. His varied work-experience includes: Between 2005 and 2009 he held the office of Additional a Solicitor General of India, and subsequently served as the Solicitor General of India from 2009-2011. During his tenure as Solicitor General, he also served as the Chairman of the Bar Council of India. As a senior law officer to the Government

neg: Charles Fahy Court, where his arguments were wholly sustained sixteen times and partially upheld twice. Fahy was appointed Solicitor General by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on November 1, 1941. While Solicitor General, Fahy continued to advocate for worker's labor rights, and was involved in cases regarding the constitutionality of wiretapping and the citizenship of American Communists. Fahy served as Solicitor General until 1945, after having argued more than 70 cases in front of the Supreme Court before being called upon by General Dwight D. Eisenhower to serve as director of the legal division of the U.S. Group Control Council in Germany in

neg: T. S. Fernando T. S. Fernando Justice Thusew Samuel Fernando, QC was a Sri Lankan judge and lawyer. He was a judge of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka and Solicitor General of Ceylon. Fernando was educated at the Royal College, Colombo and at the Colombo Law College. He became a Crown Counsel and went on to become the Solicitor General of Ceylon in the Attorney General's Department and was appointed a Queen's Counsel. Later he was made a judge Supreme Court of Sri Lanka. During his tenure he was appointed to the first Trial at Bar following the 1962 coup d'état attempt,

neg: César Bengzon to Solicitor General in 1932 and Undersecretary of Justice under Governor-General (later U.S. Supreme Court Justice) Frank Murphy in 1933. He was later appointed in 1936 to the Court of Appeals, and became an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court in 1945. He left the Supreme Court in 1948 to become Secretary of Justice under President Elpidio Quirino, but was reinstated a few months later. César Bengzon César Fernando Bengzon (May 29, 1896 – September 3, 1992) was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines from April 28, 1961 until May 29, 1966. In November 1966, a

neg: Law Commission of India amid allegations of abuse and arbitrary use of the law. The Law Ministry had urged the Commission to study the usage of the provisions of Section 124A (Sedition) of the IPC. Former Supreme Court judge Balbir Singh Chauhan was appointed Chairman of the 21st Law Commission. Mr. Justice Ravi R. Tripathi, retired judge of the Gujarat High Court was appointed as Full-time Member. On 10 June 2016, Mr. Satya Pal Jain, Additional Solicitor General of India was appointed as Part-time Member of the Commission. The Law Commission works in close co-ordination and under the general instruction of Ministry of Law

neg: Rohinton Fali Nariman Nariman was of 55 years of age when he was appointed the Solicitor General of India. After being at the post of Solicitor General of India for eighteen months, Nariman resigned on 4 February 2013. The reason for this is not known though it was said that he shared a poor rapport with the Law Minister Ashwani Kumar Nariman was elevated as a Judge of the Supreme Court on 7 July 2014. He is the fifth Supreme Court judge to be elevated directly from the Bar. He will retire on attaining the age of 65 years on 12 August 2021.

neg: Yuwanjana Wijayatilake Raja Wanasundera respectively. Yuwanjana Wijayatilake Yuwanjana Jawaharlal Wanasundera Wijayatilake PC was the 44th Attorney General of Sri Lanka and 43rd Solicitor General of Sri Lanka. Wijayatilake became an attorney in 1979 and joined the legal department as an Acting State Counsel in 1980. Having previously served as the deputy solicitor General and additional solicitor general. He was appointed Solicitor General in 2012, succeeding Palitha Fernando. In 2014 Wijayatilake was made Attorney General of Sri Lanka and served until January 2016 when he retired from the Attorney-General's Department. Wijayatilake is the son and nephew of the former Supreme Court Justices S.

neg: Yuwanjana Wijayatilake Yuwanjana Wijayatilake Yuwanjana Jawaharlal Wanasundera Wijayatilake PC was the 44th Attorney General of Sri Lanka and 43rd Solicitor General of Sri Lanka. Wijayatilake became an attorney in 1979 and joined the legal department as an Acting State Counsel in 1980. Having previously served as the deputy solicitor General and additional solicitor general. He was appointed Solicitor General in 2012, succeeding Palitha Fernando. In 2014 Wijayatilake was made Attorney General of Sri Lanka and served until January 2016 when he retired from the Attorney-General's Department. Wijayatilake is the son and nephew of the former Supreme Court Justices S. R. Wijayatilake and

neg: Rex E. Lee Rex E. Lee Rex Edwin Lee (February 27, 1935 – March 11, 1996) was an American lawyer, law clerk for former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Byron White, and the United States Solicitor General during the Reagan administration. He argued 59 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. A member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), Lee was an alumnus and the tenth president of Brigham Young University (BYU). Lee was a first cousin of politicians Mo Udall and Stewart Udall. Lee was born in St. Johns, Arizona, the son of Mabel (née Whiting) and Rex E.

neg: Virginia Linder 1980. Then in 1984 Linder was appointed as assistant solicitor general of Oregon. In 1986, at the age of 33, she was appointed Oregon Solicitor General, being the first woman to hold that position and serving in that office for longer than anyone else in state history. During her time as Solicitor General, she represented the state of Oregon in front of the United States Supreme Court, winning "Oregon v. ACF" in 1994. In 1997, she was appointed to the Court of Appeals by Governor John Kitzhaber, and was re-elected in 1998 and 2004. Her campaign for a seat on

neg: Walter E. Dellinger III Walter E. Dellinger III Walter Estes Dellinger III (born May 15, 1941) is the Douglas B. Maggs Professor of Law at Duke University School of Law and head of the appellate practice at O’Melveny & Myers in Washington, D.C. He also currently leads Harvard Law School's Supreme Court and Appellate Litigation Clinic. He served as the acting United States Solicitor General for the 1996-1997 Term of the Supreme Court. Prior to his appointment as acting Solicitor General, Dellinger was an Assistant Attorney General and head of the Office of Legal Counsel under President Bill Clinton. He has also appeared as

neg: Richard Cordray Columbia Circuit, and after that, Justice Anthony Kennedy of the Supreme Court of the United States. In 1987 he became an undefeated five-time "Jeopardy!" champion. Cordray was elected to the Ohio House of Representatives in 1990. After redistricting, Cordray decided to run for the United States House of Representatives in 1992 but was defeated. The following year he was appointed by the Ohio Attorney General as the first Solicitor General of Ohio. His experience as Solicitor led to his appearance before the United States Supreme Court to argue six cases, where he had previously clerked. Following Republican victories in Ohio

neg: John Campbell Allen John Campbell Allen Sir John Campbell Allen (October 1, 1817 – September 27, 1898) was from 1865–1896 a justice of the colonial and then provincial Supreme Court of New Brunswick, serving as Chief Justice of New Brunswick from 1875 to 1896. He was born in Kingsclear Parish, New Brunswick, a grandson of Isaac Allen, a New Brunswick Supreme Court judge. He studied law in the office of John Simcoe Saunders. He was a member of the New Brunswick House of Assembly from 1856 to 1865, Solicitor General in 1856 to 1857, Speaker of the House from 1863 to 1865, and

neg: William Howard Taft most were mainly Supreme Court justices, rather than the arbiters of Washington society such as Theodore Roosevelt, John Hay, Henry Cabot Lodge and their wives. Although Taft was successful as Solicitor General, winning 15 of the 18 cases he argued before the Supreme Court, he was glad when in March 1891, the United States Congress created a new judgeship for each of the United States Courts of Appeal and Harrison appointed him to the Sixth Circuit, based in Cincinnati. In March 1892, Taft resigned as Solicitor General to resume his judicial career. Taft's federal judgeship was a lifetime appointment, and

neg: Rex E. Lee days after completing the Boston Marathon), and an annual race is held in his honor at BYU to raise proceeds for cancer research. Rex E. Lee Rex Edwin Lee (February 27, 1935 – March 11, 1996) was an American lawyer, law clerk for former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Byron White, and the United States Solicitor General during the Reagan administration. He argued 59 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. A member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), Lee was an alumnus and the tenth president of Brigham Young University (BYU). Lee was a first cousin

neg: Erwin Griswold Erwin Griswold Erwin Nathaniel Griswold (; July 14, 1904 – November 19, 1994) was an appellate attorney who argued many cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. Griswold served as Solicitor General of the United States (1967–1973) under Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard M. Nixon. He also served as Dean of Harvard Law School for 21 years. Several times he was considered for appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court. During a career that spanned more than six decades, he served as member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and as President of the American Bar Foundation. Griswold was born

neg: Korematsu v. United States Court explicitly grants to his court submissions. Eleven lawyers who had represented Fred Korematsu, Gordon Hirabayashi, and Minoru Yasui in successful efforts in lower federal courts to nullify their convictions for violating military curfew and exclusion orders sent a letter dated January 13, 2014, to Solicitor General Donald Verrilli Jr. In light of the appeal proceedings before the U.S. Supreme Court in "Hedges v. Obama", the lawyers asked Verrilli to ask the Supreme Court to overrule its decisions in "Korematsu", "Hirabayashi" (1943) and "Yasui" (1943). If the Solicitor General shouldn't do this, they asked that the United States government to

neg: Rohinton Fali Nariman Rohinton Fali Nariman Rohinton Fali Nariman (born 13 August 1956) is a judge of the Supreme Court of India. Before being elevated as a judge, he practised as a senior counsel at the Supreme Court. He was appointed the Solicitor General of India on 23 July 2011. He also served as a member of the Bar Council of India. He was designated as a Senior Counsel by Justice Venkatachaliah (the then Chief Justice of India) in 1993 at the early age of 37. Nariman is the son of Fali Sam Nariman, a distinguished Indian Jurist. He received his early education

neg: Rohinton Fali Nariman Rohinton Fali Nariman Rohinton Fali Nariman (born 13 August 1956) is a judge of the Supreme Court of India. Before being elevated as a judge, he practised as a senior counsel at the Supreme Court. He was appointed the Solicitor General of India on 23 July 2011. He also served as a member of the Bar Council of India. He was designated as a Senior Counsel by Justice Venkatachaliah (the then Chief Justice of India) in 1993 at the early age of 37. Nariman is the son of Fali Sam Nariman, a distinguished Indian Jurist. He received his early education

neg: Querube Makalintal Querube Makalintal Querube C. Makalintal (December 22, 1910 – November 8, 2002) was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines from Oct. 31, 1973 until December 22, 1975 and Speaker of the Interim Batasang Pambansa from June 12, 1978 to June 30, 1984. Makalintal was a member of the Upsilon Sigma Phi fraternity. Makalintal served as Solicitor General, before being appointed as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court by President Diosdado Macapagal in 1962. After reaching the compulsory retirement age of 65 under the 1973 Constitution, he served as Speaker of the Interim Batasang Pambansa from 1978

neg: District of Columbia v. Heller Myers, also a professor at Duke University Law School and former Acting Solicitor General, argued the District's side before the Supreme Court. Dellinger was assisted by Thomas Goldstein of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, Robert Long of Covington & Burling and D.C. Solicitor General Todd Kim. The law firms assisting the District worked "pro bono". Alan Gura, of the D.C.-based law firm Gura & Possessky, was lead counsel for Heller, and argued on his behalf before the Supreme Court. Robert Levy, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, and Clark Neily, a senior attorney at the Institute for Justice,

neg: Elena Kagan there is a colorable (plausible) argument to be made, even though she might not personally agree with the policy she was obligated to defend. As Solicitor General, Kagan's job was to act as the lawyer for the United States and defend legislation and executive actions in appeals before the Supreme Court. Thus, the arguments Kagan made as Solicitor General were not necessarily indicative of her personal beliefs. She made her first appearance before the Supreme Court on September 9, 2009, one month before the typical start of a new term in October, in the re-argument of "Citizens United v. Federal

neg: Rex E. Lee was survived by his wife, Janet, seven children and ten grandchildren. During a memorial service for Lee, former Acting Solicitor General Walter Dellinger stated that even after years of separation, Lee's influence was still felt in the Office of the Solicitor General. According to Dellinger, "Some few people have influence that lasts well beyond their time. One is Rex Lee." Associate Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito served as an assistant to Solicitor General Lee from 1981 to 1985, where Alito argued 12 cases before the Court. Like his father, Thomas would later teach at the Brigham Young University J. Reuben

neg: Bishwajit Bhattacharyya J. S. Verma. In the same he alleged that full case files were not given to law officers and the briefs were given just minutes before the court hearing, leaving little time to prepare for arguments. http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/centres-probe-into-harshad-mehta-fraud-eyewash-says-supreme-court/article4974892.ece Bishwajit Bhattacharyya Bishwajit Bhattacharyya was an Additional Solicitor General of India. He has been a country manager at ANZ Grindlays bank, Senior Advocate of the Supreme Court of India and a visiting faculty at Indian Law Institute, New Delhi. He is also a Visiting Professor at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. As Additional Solicitor General of India (Indirect Taxes), he is credited

neg: Supreme Court of Puerto Rico Sila Calderón. Previously, he served as an Associate Justice from 1985 to 2004. In this capacity, Chief Justice Hernández Denton has sworn in Governors Aníbal Acevedo Vilá and Luis Fortuño. Chief Justice Fiool-Matta is also the administrator of the Judicial Branch of Puerto Rico. With the arrival of Associate Justice Oronoz, the four female justices constitute the largest number of women in history to serve on the Court simultaneously. Of the eight current Associate Justices, five have served on the Puerto Rico Court of Appeals. Justice Anabelle Rodríguez served as Solicitor General and Attorney General of Puerto Rico, Justice Kolthoff

neg: Solicitor-General of New Zealand clarification by the Supreme Court. In 1854 the General Assembly introduced a bill to establish, among others, the position of Solicitor-General. James O'Neill opposed the establishment of the position because each Province had its own Solicitor and thought that they together with the Attorney-General were sufficient. Whether the position was established is difficult to determine. Papers in 1854 refer to Sewell as the late Solicitor-General, yet his biography says he was Attorney-General. Also, in 1861 reference is made of Travers being offered the position, but Travers had not been in office since 1859. When William Cunningham MacGregor was appointed judge

neg: Yasui v. United States Department's 1943 ethical lapse in the Supreme Court. Minoru Yasui died on November 12, 1986. Lawyers who represented Fred Korematsu, Gordon Hirabayashi, and Minoru Yasui in successful efforts in lower federal courts to nullify their convictions for violating military curfew and exclusion orders sent a letter dated January 13, 2014 to Solicitor General Donald Verrilli Jr.. In light of the appeal proceedings before the U.S. Supreme in "Hedges v. Obama", the lawyers asked Verrili to request the Supreme Court overrule its decisions in "Korematsu" (1943), "Hirabayashi" (1943) and "Yasui" (1943). If the Solicitor General should not make the request, the

neg: David Frederick Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and Justice Byron R. White of the U.S. Supreme Court. In 1995, he was named counselor to the Inspector General. One year later, he became the assistant to the Solicitor General, a position he held until 2001. During his time with the Solicitor General's Office he earned the Department of Justice Inspector General’s Award for Exceptional Service, the Attorney General’s Distinguished Service Award and the Coast Guard Medal for Distinguished Public Service. Frederick has argued fifty cases in the Supreme Court of the United States, across a wide range of issues and industries. Frederick's victories

neg: Frank H. Easterbrook In 1974, along with Danny Boggs, he joined the United States Solicitor General's office as an Assistant to the Solicitor General, and was promoted in 1978 to Deputy Solicitor General. The solicitor general at the time was Robert Bork, and Easterbrook has reminisced that when he joined the Solicitor General's office, ""The Washington Post" noted that around the same time the SG's Office had hired three lawyers either fresh from clerkships or lacking the customary appellate experience. None of us had clerked on the Supreme Court. The "Post" concluded that good lawyers were no longer willing to work for the

neg: Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co. held liable for violations of customary international law: Kiobel petitioned the Supreme Court for review of the Second Circuit's decision. It was granted on October 17, 2011. Oral arguments were held on February 28, 2012, with Kathleen Sullivan arguing for Shell and Deputy Solicitor General Edwin Kneedler arguing as a friend to Kiobel. The arguments received considerable attention in the legal community. Unexpectedly, the Supreme Court announced, on March 5, 2012, that it would hold additional argument on the case during the October 2012 term. It directed the parties to file new briefs on the question "Whether and under what

neg: Robert Flanders the town solicitor for Glocester, Rhode Island and general counsel to the Rhode Island Solid Waste Management Corporation. In 1987, he founded his own business and government litigation firm, Flanders and Medeiros. In 1996, after serving as special prosecutor for the Judicial Tenure and Discipline Commission and being chosen as one of five finalists by a judicial merit-selection commission, Governor Lincoln Almond named Flanders to a vacant seat on the five member Rhode Island Supreme Court. On March 29, 1996, Flanders was sworn in as one of the five Justices of the Rhode Island Supreme Court. In 2004, after eight

neg: Wade H. McCree which identifies promising middle school students and provides them with college scholarships. McCree left the Sixth Circuit when President Jimmy Carter appointed him United States Solicitor General. As Solicitor General, McCree served as the head appellate lawyer for the United States Government and represented the administration in cases before the United States Supreme Court. McCree personally argued 25 cases before the Supreme Court, including the Richard Nixon presidential tapes case and the "Regents of the University of California v. Bakke" affirmative action case. In "Bakke", McCree argued that race could be one factor in deciding whether an applicant was admitted

neg: Samuel Alito other as judges on theThird Circuit.) While an Assistant U.S. Attorney for New Jersey, he prosecuted many cases involving drug trafficking and organized crime. From 1981 to 1985, Alito was Assistant to U.S. Solicitor General Rex E. Lee. In that capacity he argued 12 cases before the Supreme Court for the federal government. In "Thornburgh v. American College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists" (1986), the Supreme Court ruled against Charles Fried after he rejected a memo by Alito urging the Solicitor General to avoid directly attacking the constitutional right to an abortion. Alito lost only two of the cases he argued

neg: Colorado Supreme Court state attorney general, and questions referred to it by the federal courts. Furthermore, the Colorado Supreme Court has general supervisory and budget authority over the judicial branch, the court rule making process, and the regulation of attorneys. Finally, the Colorado Supreme Court makes appointments to a number of boards and commissions, which often has the effect of providing a tie breaking member in situations where the other appointees are equally divided on partisan lines. The current Colorado Supreme Court's membership, and the date each Justice was appointed, is as follows: When a vacancy on the court occurs, a Blue Ribbon

neg: Michael Dreeben John Roberts, who later became Chief Justice. In 2016 Dreeben became only the seventh person to argue 100 cases before the Supreme Court (the others including Edwin Kneedler and Lawrence G. Wallace). Dreeben has taught as visiting faculty member at Duke Law and as adjunct professor at Georgetown Law. Michael Dreeben Michael R. Dreeben (born 1954) is the Deputy Solicitor General in charge of the U.S. Department of Justice criminal docket before the United States Supreme Court. He is recognized as an expert in U.S. criminal law. In 2017, he was enlisted by special counsel Robert Mueller to assist the

neg: Gregory G. Garre arguing before the Supreme Court that U.S. federal courts lacked jurisdiction over two U.S. citizens being held by the military in Iraq based on "Hirota v. MacArthur", a 1948 Supreme Court case that "rejected habeas corpus petitions from Japanese prisoners who had been convicted of war crimes by an international tribunal". He also won "Baze v. Rees" (2008). He became Acting Solicitor General on June 19, 2008, when his predecessor Paul Clement resigned. The same day, President George W. Bush nominated him to be Solicitor General. He was confirmed by the U.S. Senate unanimously on October 2, 2008. According to

neg: Antonio Eduardo Nachura unsuccessful candidate for re-election to the 13th Congress. In February 2006, Nachura was named Chief Presidential Legal Counsel by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. The following month, Nachura was appointed Solicitor-General by on March 17, 2006, replacing Alfredo Benipayo. In his capacity as Solicitor-General, Nachura has represented the Republic of the Philippines in various cases pending before the courts, including such high-profile cases before the Supreme Court as the People's Initiative cases decided in October, 2006. Antonio Eduardo Nachura Antonio Eduardo Bermejo Nachura (born June 13, 1941) is a former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines. He took his

neg: Department of Justice and Attorney-General (Queensland) 1922 with the establishment of the Magistrates Court in the civil arena while the criminal jurisdiction was transferred to the Supreme Court. The State Reporting Bureau was established in 1926 to provide court-reporting and hansard services. In 1958, the District Court of Queensland was re-established by Parliament. In 1959, the Offenders Probation and Parole Act 1959 was introduced with provisions on juvenile justice. In 1970, the department developed the Consumer Affairs Bureau. In 1984, the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions was created. The first Solicitor-General of Queensland was appointed under the Solicitor-General Act 1985. In the early 1990s,

neg: Satya Pal Jain its comprehensive recommendations to the Government of India. Satya Pal Jain Satya Pal Jain is the Additional Solicitor General of India & Member of the Law Commission of India. He is a Member of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) National Executive Committee. He was elected Member of Parliament from Chandigarh in 1996 (11th Lok Sabha) and 1998 (12th Lok Sabha). He is a practising Senior Advocate in the Supreme Court of India and the Punjab and Haryana High Court at Chandigarh. Born at Kharar (District Ropar, Punjab) on 15 June 1952, he did his schooling from Christian High School, Kharar. He

neg: Satya Pal Jain Satya Pal Jain Satya Pal Jain is the Additional Solicitor General of India & Member of the Law Commission of India. He is a Member of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) National Executive Committee. He was elected Member of Parliament from Chandigarh in 1996 (11th Lok Sabha) and 1998 (12th Lok Sabha). He is a practising Senior Advocate in the Supreme Court of India and the Punjab and Haryana High Court at Chandigarh. Born at Kharar (District Ropar, Punjab) on 15 June 1952, he did his schooling from Christian High School, Kharar. He passed his BA (with honours in Political Science)

neg: Murdhu Fernando College, becoming the first in the order of merit and winning the First Scholarship, the Sir Lalitha Rajapakse Memorial Prize and the A. B. Cooray Memorial Prize. He would later gain a LLM from King’s College, London. Joining the Attorney General's Department as a State Counsel, she served for over 30 years having being promoted to Senior State Counsel, Deputy Solicitor General, Additional Solicitor General and Senior Additional Solicitor General. She was appointed a President's Counsel while serving as an Additional Solicitor General. Fernando was appointed as a Justice of the Supreme Court by President Maithripala Sirisena in March 2018.

neg: Robert H. Jackson Deal, litigating against corporations and utilities holding companies. He participated in the 1934 prosecution of Samuel Insull, the 1935 income tax case against Andrew Mellon, and the 1937 anti-trust case against Alcoa, in which the Mellon family held an important interest. In March 1938, Jackson became United States Solicitor General, serving until January 1940 as the government's chief advocate before the Supreme Court. During his time in this post, he argued 44 cases to the Supreme Court on behalf of the federal government, and lost only six. His record of accomplishment caused Justice Louis Brandeis to once remark that Jackson

neg: Official Solicitor statutory officer of the then-Supreme Court of England and Wales appointed by the Lord Chancellor under the name of Official Solicitor to the Supreme Court. The offices of the Official Solicitor to the Supreme Court and the Public Trustee are now housed in one office building, but they continue to have separate functions. On 1 April 2007 the Official Solicitor and Public Trustee merged with the Court Funds Office to become the Offices of Court Funds, Official Solicitor and Public Trustee. This new organisation was an associated office of the Ministry of Justice. They were split up again on 1