{"id":8119,"date":"2016-09-21T12:43:41","date_gmt":"2016-09-21T18:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=8119"},"modified":"2016-09-21T12:43:41","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T18:43:41","slug":"oral-argument-in-mandarin-at-the-federal-circuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=8119","title":{"rendered":"Oral Argument in Mandarin at the Federal Circuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A<em> pro se <\/em>appellant recently showed up at the Federal Circuit to present oral argument &#8212; the only problem was that he only speaks Mandarin. \u00a0I don&#8217;t know if there is an official rule; but, generally oral arguments at the Federal Circuit are conducted in English. \u00a0As luck* would have it, one of Judge O&#8217;Malley&#8217;s clerks, Dr. Glenn Cheng, was able to step in and translate for the appellant.<\/p>\n<p>The oral argument is short, approximately five minutes, and is available [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/2016-17831.mp3\">here<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>The decision is available [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafc.uscourts.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/opinions-orders\/16-1783.Opinion.9-1-2016.1.PDF\">here<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>*Perhaps &#8220;luck&#8221; isn&#8217;t the best word choice &#8212; Mandarin is the world&#8217;s most popular language and spoken by 14% of the world&#8217;s population. \u00a0English comes in a distant third at 5.5%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pro se appellant recently showed up at the Federal Circuit to present oral argument &#8212; the only problem was that he only speaks Mandarin. \u00a0I don&#8217;t know if there is an official rule; but, generally oral arguments at the Federal Circuit are conducted in English. \u00a0As luck* would have it, one of Judge O&#8217;Malley&#8217;s [&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\/8119"}],"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=8119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8122,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8119\/revisions\/8122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}