A Busy Year at the OSG

The United States Office of the Solicitor General (OSG) within the U.S. Department of Justice has its hands full with Supreme Court litigation.  Granted, “busy” is a relative term as the OSG has had fewer Supreme Court filings this Term than it has since 2010 (which will almost assuredly still be the case at the end…

Each Case in Approximately Ten Words

Why approximately ten words? Well in reality it is in ten n-grams or phrases of one to a few words.  The words not only provide a pithy synopsis of each case, but they also give the parties’ framings of the cases.  I used a method known as keyword extraction to locate these phrases (more about…