Federal Court is struggling to keep pace with the huge number of cases it agrees to decide. Honourable Court schedules and hears 240 hours of oral argument each year, and 178 hours of next year's term will be taken up by cases left over from this year. Surely, the Court cannot be asked to increase its already onerous hours. The most reasonable long-range solution to this problem is to allow the Court to decide many cases without hearing oral argument; in this way the Court might eventually increase dramatically the number of cases it decides each year.
Which of the following, if true, could best be used to argue against the feasibility of the solution suggested?
Suggested solution to eventually increase
dramatically the number of cases it decides each year -> allow the Court to decide many cases without hearing oral argument.
To increase the number of cases dramatically the oral arguments should consume majority share of the proceedings, if oral arguments doesn't take a lot of time then the solution won't be feasible.
A.
The time the Court spends hearing oral argument is only a small part of the total time it spends deciding a case. - Correct In line with our thinking
B.
The Court cannot legitimately avoid hearing oral argument in any case left over from last year. - incorrectThis talks only about the left over cases from last year. The courts can still avoid current year's cases.
C.
Most authorities agree that 240 hours of oral argument is the maximum number that the Court can handle per year. - incorrectThis information doesn't provide details to evaluate the feasibility of the solution.
D.
Even now the Court decides a small number of cases without hearing oral argument. - incorrectThis states that the solution is plausible since there are instance where cases are decided without oral argument
E.
In many cases, the delay of a hearing for a full year can be extremely expensive to the parties involved. - incorrectIt talks about the cost of the delays to the parties involved. This doesn.t help in arguing against the feasibility of the proposed solution.