The Supreme Court may be on summer recess but that doesn’t mean the justices are free from work-related obligations. Throughout the year some of the most significant decisions the justices make are performed unilaterally. The justices are each assigned to a certain geographic region associated with a judicial circuit or circuits and by virtue of…
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Quick Note: Supreme Court Stay Applications 2015/2016
The Supreme Court regularly receives applications to stay court orders or mandates pending possible upcoming decisions such as those on certiorari. Many of these requests are received from inmates on death row looking to stay executions. Several instances involve multiple applications based around the same underlying cases. Due to the interest in the stay recently granted in…
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