Letters,
Appellate Practice
Sep. 16, 2010
Abolishing Oral Argument Is Disservice to Justice
Norman L. Epstein and Richard M. Mosk of the 2nd District Court of Appeal comment on the need for oral argument.
Richard Mosk
Norman L. Epstein
Justice (retired)
I am writing in response to the guest column by Professor Myron Moskovitz about oral argument in the appellate courts ("Abolish Oral Argument?" Sept. 9). In it Moskovitz presents his proposal about the practice in succinct terms: "[L]et's just abolish it." This is because, he says, the justices on the panel hearing the case already have made up their minds and, in fact, an opinion already is written and ready to go as soon as oral argument is over. Besides that, he says, the justice...
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