{"id":374,"date":"2015-05-20T20:43:23","date_gmt":"2015-05-20T20:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citeblog.access-to-law.com\/?p=374"},"modified":"2021-12-11T18:12:55","modified_gmt":"2021-12-11T18:12:55","slug":"judges-are-not-like-pigs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citeblog.access-to-law.com\/?p=374","title":{"rendered":"Judges Are Not Like Pigs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar_case?case=914694405058562930\">recent decision of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals<\/a>\u00a0quotes a local\u00a0aphorism that underscores\u00a0the importance of specificity when citing either to the record or legal authority. \u00a0It is to the effect that: &#8220;Judges are not like pigs, hunting for truffles buried in briefs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent decision of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals\u00a0quotes a local\u00a0aphorism that underscores\u00a0the importance of specificity when citing either to the record or legal authority. \u00a0It is to the effect that: &#8220;Judges are not like pigs, hunting for truffles buried in briefs.&#8221; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citeblog.access-to-law.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citeblog.access-to-law.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citeblog.access-to-law.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citeblog.access-to-law.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citeblog.access-to-law.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/citeblog.access-to-law.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":376,"href":"https:\/\/citeblog.access-to-law.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions\/376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citeblog.access-to-law.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citeblog.access-to-law.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citeblog.access-to-law.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}