Hold Onto Your Knickers: Biglaw Partner Said ‘Damn’ At The Supreme Court
“During Supreme Court oral arguments earlier this week, a Biglaw partner dropped a ‘damn’ to colorfully illustrate his point,” reports Kathryn Rubino in Above the Law’s Courts.
“It happened during the arguments in Opati v. Republic of Sudan. Sudan’s lawyer, White & Case’s Christopher Curran, was in an exchange with Justice Stephen Breyer when he argued SCOTUS had previously held the retroactive assessment of punitive damages was unfair and a ‘draconian step.’ That’s when the juiciness happened:”
“So before we attribute that intention to Congress, we’re going to ask Congress to say it pretty damn clearly.”
“Chief Justice William Rehnquist let it fly in arguments in Donnolley v. Dechristoforo (1974). In fact, according to Law.com, ‘damn’ has been said a handful of times during oral arguments from 1950-2015. However, the majority of the times it was used it was in quoting the record of the case. But at least one other advocate used ‘damn’ for emphasis:”
