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Legal Briefs

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.

By PuzzledCross

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Across

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

Down

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

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