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Use the official docket link for later case activity."],"sources":[{"evidence_type":"Transcript","label":"Official Supreme Court Transcript — file page 10, lines 10-22","official_url":"https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/2013/13-461_97l5.pdf","page_label":"file page 10, lines 10-22"},{"evidence_type":"Transcript","label":"Official Supreme Court Transcript — file page 3, lines 44-46","official_url":"https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/2013/13-461_97l5.pdf","page_label":"file page 3, lines 44-46"},{"evidence_type":"Transcript","label":"Official Supreme Court Transcript — file page 3, lines 8-18","official_url":"https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/2013/13-461_97l5.pdf","page_label":"file page 3, lines 8-18"},{"evidence_type":"Transcript","label":"Official Supreme Court Transcript — file page 4, lines 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