{"id":380,"date":"2013-08-12T14:00:23","date_gmt":"2013-08-12T14:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/?p=380"},"modified":"2023-07-25T11:28:36","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T15:28:36","slug":"5-did-you-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/oral-argument\/5-did-you-know\/","title":{"rendered":"(5) Did You Know?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Rhode Island Supreme Court \u201crides the circuit\u201d twice a year, hearing cases in various venues throughout the state.\u00a0 The tradition of riding the circuit \u201cdates to colonial times when the courts and other bodies of government traveled from town to town, taking the people\u2019s business directly to the people.\u201d\u00a0 <em>See<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courts.ri.gov\/PublicResources\/communityoutreach\/Pages\/Supreme Court Rides the Circuit.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Office of Community Outreach and Public Relations<\/a>.\u00a0 For example, when he was a practicing lawyer, Abraham Lincoln traveled the circuit in the Eighth Judicial Circuit of Illinois.\u00a0 See John J. Duff, A. Lincoln: Prairie Lawyer 168 (1960).\u00a0 This term, the Rhode Island Court sat at Exeter-West Greenwich Regional High School.\u00a0 <em>See<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courts.ri.gov\/Courts\/SupremeCourt\/Opinions\/12-56.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cruz v. DaimlerChrysler Motors Corp<\/a>., No. 2012-56-Appeal at 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rhode Island Supreme Court \u201crides the circuit\u201d twice a year, hearing cases in various venues throughout the state.\u00a0 The tradition of riding the circuit \u201cdates to colonial times when the courts and other bodies of government traveled from town to town,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[7,20,14],"class_list":["post-380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oral-argument","tag-appeals","tag-oral-argument","tag-rhode-island-supreme-court"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apslaw.com\/on-appeal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}