Endrew F. v. Douglas Co. Sch. Dist. Re-1
- CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS
- It says “some benefit,” but you’re -- you’re reading it as saying “some benefit,” and the other side is reading it as saying “some benefit,” and you know that -- And it makes a difference.
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- JUSTICE KAGAN
- Do you favor a standard with bite?
- MR. KATYAL
- It does have some bite. It does. We’re not trying to --
- JUSTICE KAGAN
- Would that be “some bite” or “some bite“?
https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/2016/15-827_gfbh.pdf
Expressions Hair Design v. Schneiderman
- JUSTICE ALITO
- I mean, suppose some kids have a lemonade stand or they’re washing cars and they say a glass of lemonade, $1 and then somebody comes up to them and says I’d like to buy that with a credit card. It might happen today. I have -- I have never seen anybody younger than me buy anything with cash. But that would be a violation if they put the $1 there on the assumption that everybody is going to pay cash for their lemonade. These are tech savvy kids so they can -- could process a credit card purchase if they wanted to?
- MR. WU
- The statue has no exemption for kids selling lemonade.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/2016/15-1391_5315.pdf
Expressions Hair Design v. Schneiderman
- CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS
- Hold on -- now, hold on. You’re saying that the -- the American people are too dumb to understand that if you say $10 plus a 20-cent surcharge, they can’t figure out that that’s $10.20.
- MR. FEIGIN
- And the second reason, Your Honor, I think addresses that concern directly.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/2016/15-1391_5315.pdf
Expressions Hair Design v. Schneiderman
- JUSTICE BREYER
- Then what’s the problem with saying -- you -- you don’t -- you’re too young to know what the OPA was.
- MR. GUPTA
- I think -- I think so, Justice Breyer.
- JUSTICE BREYER
- It’s called the Office of Price Administration. Ken Galbraith ran it for a while. And they would -- what they would do, he said is they’d go around and they’d smell what the right price was.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/2016/15-1391_5315.pdf
Nelson v. Colorado
- JUSTICE BREYER
- Right. So what happens then? I mean, you -- I grant you have a tough side of this argument. It doesn’t seem very fair.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/2016/15-1256_d1o2.pdf
Lightfoot v. Cendant Mortgage Corp.
- CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS
- Your friend on the other side scares me when he says there are 60,000 cases that are going to be added to the Federal docket.
- JUSTICE KENNEDY
- Don’t tell us we’re not working hard enough.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/2016/14-1055_h3dj.pdf
Texas v. Johnson
- Justice Scalia
- Will you give me an example where one... somebody desecrates the flag in order to show that he agrees with the policies of the United States.
http://www.supremepodcast.com/SupremePodcast.com/A_Weekly_Podcast_Concerning_the_United_States_Supreme_Court/Entries/2011/5/13_Notable_Oral_Arguments_-_Lawrence_v._Texas_files/Texas%20v%20Johnson%20Oral%20Argument%20Transcript.pdf
NLRB v. SW. Gen., Inc.
- Justice Breyer
- I will also assume that for every chef salad there is a countervailing strawberry shortcake; all right? So — so everything balances out.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/2016/15-1251_q86b.pdf
Zubik v. Burwell
- Justice Alito
- But, you know, in the long run we’re all dead.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/14-1418_j4ek.pdf
Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt
- Justice Ginsburg
- Is there really any dispute that childbirth is a much riskier procedure than an early stage abortion?
https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/15-274_l53m.pdf