The week of Nov. 8, 1999, will not be remembered at the Supreme Court for superb oral advocacy.

Several of the six cases the Court heard were marked by rollickingly unconventional, sometimes painfully bad lawyering that must have left the justices thinking they could have better spent their time back in their chambers, reading briefs or playing solitaire on the computer.

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