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Oyez Project on Health Care Oral Argument Length

On Monday, we wrote that the U.S. Supreme Court scheduled 5 1/2 hours of oral argument for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act cases. In a brief video, Professor Jerry Goldman of Chicago-Kent College of Law's Oyez Project puts this argument length in historical perspective. According to Oyez Project records, it's the longest scheduled argument since the 1970s. Brown v. Board of Education and Miranda v. Arizona are among the cases with longer oral argument sessions.