Perhaps the biggest development in the modern Supreme Court alongside the great discretion the justices now have in dictating the cases they hear is the role of interest groups. Over the past several decades the Supreme Court has increasingly become the forum for such groups and their attempts at persuasion; the object of persuasion being…
Category: Amici
Successful Cert Amici 2014
With 7,006 cases disposed of during the 2014 Supreme Court term, Supreme Court Justices and clerks had an abundance of cases on their plates. One way that the Justices and clerks find their way to the more important cases (specifically to cases that are important to people beyond the individual parties in the case) is…
Comparing Amicus Briefs in Evenwel v. Abbott
A friend of mine practicing in a large firm recently asked me about comparing documents for similarity. While his interests are from a transactional standpoint, the same methods can be used to compare documents within or between cases. To continue with the amicus brief trope from the last post, I thought it would be interesting…
Amicus Briefs and Oral Arguments in the Roberts Court
Do the Justices and their clerks do their homework by reading and analyzing amicus briefs prior to oral arguments? In preparation for a larger project, I thought it would be interesting to probe this question (this also seems timely given Adam Liptak’s column in the New York Times on a recent study examining amicus briefs). …
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