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Oral Argument 106: Legal AsteroidRobert Bolt, A Man for All SeasonsDavid Souter on the Danger of America’s “pervasive civic ignorance” (video)Oral Argument 105: Bismarck’s Raw Material (guest Tim Meyer)Oral Argument 112: Quasi-Narrative (guest Simon Stern)Popov v. HayashiOyez page for NFIB v. Sebelius (select Opinion Announcement, part 1, for the relevant portion of the hand-down)Oral Argument 113: The Entrails of Fowl (guest Charles Barzun)Paul Horwitz, On “The Troublesome Use of Photographs . . . and Other Images” in Federal Court OpinionsBlackmun’s dissent in DeShaney v. Winnebago County Department of Social ServicesJamal Greene, Pathetic Arguments in Constitutional LawThe Oral Argument IndexDavid Ziff, The Worst System of Citation Except for All the Others