Legal Briefs

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Where every case is a matter of letters.

Solve clues on law, politics, and the Supreme Court. This puzzle features legal terminology, famous figures, and clever wordplay.

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Start of a lawyer's probing question.
6A
Final say from the judge?
7A
Romance language spoken near the Italian-Austrian border.
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Literary genre subject to First Amendment debates.
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Emphasis in a legal brief, perhaps.
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Sharpen, as one's legal argument.
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Language that gave us "logic" and "ethos."

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What a judge does with a case.
3D
Platform at the center of many modern free-speech debates.
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Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor.
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They form the foundation of a legal argument.
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Patrick who long served on the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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Joey Tribbiani's classic two-word query.
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Bit of evidence for a gumshoe.

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