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Date: 04 Sep 2008 10:24:48
From: Sam Sloan
Subject: U.S. Supreme Court brief in SEC vs. Samuel H. Sloan, 436 US 103 (1978)
I am in the process of reprinting the brief I filed in the U.S.
Supreme Court in SEC vs. Samuel H. Sloan, 436 US 103 (1978)

This, plus the oral argument presented to the United States Supreme
Court, resulted in a 9-0 decision in my favor.

My brief when it comes out in about a week will be available at
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0923891226

I have just discovered that an audio recording of the oral argument I
presented before the United States Supreme Court is available online
at:
http://www.oyez.org/cases/1970-1979/1977/1977_76_1607/argument-2/
http://www.oyez.org/cases/1970-1979/1977/1977_76_1607/argument-1/
http://www.oyez.org/cases/1970-1979/1977/1977_76_1607/opinion/
http://supreme.justia.com/us/436/103/case.html
http://laws.findlaw.com/US/436/103.html

On the above tapes you can hear Sam Sloan present his oral argument
before the United States Supreme Court and respond to questions
propounded by Chief Justice Burger and Associate Justices Rehnquist,
Stevens, Powell, Marshall and Stewart.

You can also hear future SEC Chairman Harvey Pitt try to defend the
SEC's actions in this case and even hear the audience laugh in
derision when Harvey Pitt tries to advance some especially ridiculous
contentions.

An article in American Lawyer magazine, October 11, 2002, states that
this was "the last time and apparently the only time in the past
century that the that a nonlawyer argued before the Court. Sloan won,
and the record reveals that the advocate arguing against him was an
SEC lawyer by the name of Harvey Pitt."




 
Date: 10 Sep 2008 10:03:03
From: samsloan
Subject: Re: U.S. Supreme Court brief in SEC vs. Samuel H. Sloan, 436 US 103
My US Supreme Court brief is now online and available at
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0923891226

This is one important accomplishment during my recent trip to San
Francisco August 15-23, 2008. I was able to recover some of my old
possessions including old scrapbooks, old photo albumns, my old hard
disks from 1986 to 1990 and this successful Supreme Court brief which
I filed.

Back when this brief was filed many school libraries acked me for a
copy but I did not have enough extra copies to fulfill all these
requests, so now I have reprinted it and made it available on Amazon.

I need to thank my girlfriend at the time, Anda Baumanis, who later on
became my wife, for typing this Supreme Court brief. (She was a much
better girlfriend than a wife.)

An audio recording of the oral argument I presented before the United
States Supreme Court is available online at:
http://www.oyez.org/cases/1970-1979/1977/1977_76_1607/argument-2/
http://www.oyez.org/cases/1970-1979/1977/1977_76_1607/argument-1/

I won the case and the decision is at
http://laws.findlaw.com/US/436/103.html

Sam Sloan


 
Date: 04 Sep 2008 10:51:43
From: Sam Sloan
Subject: Re: U.S. Supreme Court brief in SEC vs. Samuel H. Sloan, 436 US 103 (1978)
You should especially listen to the part of the audio recording where
Chief Justice Warren Burger says to me,

"Are you willing to agree that I might be right?"

and I respond.

"Yes. I am willing to agree that you might be right."

http://www.oyez.org/cases/1970-1979/1977/1977_76_1607/argument-2/


  
Date: 04 Sep 2008 15:47:26
From: =?Windows-1252?Q?J=FCrgen_R.?=
Subject: AW: U.S. Supreme Court brief in SEC vs. Samuel H. Sloan, 436 US 103 (1978)
Sam Sloan wrote:
> You should especially listen to the part of the audio recording where
> Chief Justice Warren Burger says to me,
>
> "Are you willing to agree that I might be right?"
>
> and I respond.
>
> "Yes. I am willing to agree that you might be right."

And you are proud of that? And you don't realize that he
is saying you are a jerk and that you should stick to the subject
before the court and not ramble on about other grievances?

>
> http://www.oyez.org/cases/1970-1979/1977/1977_76_1607/argument-2/