On December 11, CCL President Robert S. Peck spoke about U.S. Supreme Court practice as the featured speaker for the Delaware ABOTA meeting, whose president, Joseph Weik is a Governor for the American Association for Justice. Peck talked about the peculiarities of practicing before the U.S. Supreme Court and the unusual turns that oral argument can take. Among the examples he used were his own experiences in arguing Jinks v. Richland County (2003) and his two arguments in Philip Morris USA v. Williams (2007 & 2009), in which the Supreme Court sustained a punitive damage award that was 97 times larger than the compensatory damages awarded by the jury.