{"id":6120,"date":"2013-07-03T18:04:01","date_gmt":"2013-07-04T00:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=6120"},"modified":"2013-07-03T18:04:01","modified_gmt":"2013-07-04T00:04:01","slug":"hot-bench","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=6120","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Hot Bench&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"410\" height=\"500\" data=\"http:\/\/www.c-spanvideo.org\/videoLibrary\/assets\/swf\/CSPANPlayer.swf?clipid=4457880\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"id\" value=\"cspan-video-player\" \/><param name=\"align\" value=\"middle\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#ffffff\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"system=http:\/\/www.c-spanvideo.org\/common\/services\/flashXml.php?clipid=4457880&amp;style=full\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.c-spanvideo.org\/videoLibrary\/assets\/swf\/CSPANPlayer.swf?clipid=4457880\" \/><param name=\"name\" value=\"cspan-video-player\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Chief Justice Roberts was interviewed the other day at the Fourth Circuit Judicial Conference.  He was asked about the Supreme Court becoming an increasingly &#8220;hot bench.&#8221;  A hot bench is when the judges or justices are extremely engaged in the oral argument and ask a lot of questions of the advocates.<\/p>\n<p>I think it is fair to say that the Federal Circuit is a &#8220;hot bench&#8221; when certain issues are in dispute &#8212; most notably, 35 U.S.C. \u00a7101.  The oral argument in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Ultramercial v. Hulu<\/span> is a good example:  [<a href=\"http:\/\/oralarguments.cafc.uscourts.gov\/Audiomp3\/2010-1544.mp3\">Listen<\/a>].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chief Justice Roberts was interviewed the other day at the Fourth Circuit Judicial Conference. He was asked about the Supreme Court becoming an increasingly &#8220;hot bench.&#8221; A hot bench is when the judges or justices are extremely engaged in the oral argument and ask a lot of questions of the advocates. I think it is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6120"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6120"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6126,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6120\/revisions\/6126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}