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The Trouble With Amicus Facts, Allison Orr Larsen Nov 2014

The Trouble With Amicus Facts, Allison Orr Larsen

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The number of amicus curiae briefs filed at the Supreme Court is at an all-time high. Most observers, and even some of the Justices, believe that the best of these briefs are filed to supplement the Court’s understanding of facts. Supreme Court decisions quite often turn on generalized facts about the way the world works (Do violent video games harm children? Is a partial birth abortion ever medically necessary?). To answer these questions, the Justices are hungry for more information than the parties and the record can provide. The consensus is that amicus briefs helpfully add factual expertise to the …


2014-2015 Supreme Court Preview: Schedule And Panel Members, Institute Of Bill Of Rights Law, William & Mary Law School Sep 2014

2014-2015 Supreme Court Preview: Schedule And Panel Members, Institute Of Bill Of Rights Law, William & Mary Law School

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2014-2015 Supreme Court Preview: Contents, Institute Of Bill Of Rights Law, William & Mary Law School Sep 2014

2014-2015 Supreme Court Preview: Contents, Institute Of Bill Of Rights Law, William & Mary Law School

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Section 2: Congress & The Obama White House, Institute Of Bill Of Rights Law, William & Mary Law School Sep 2014

Section 2: Congress & The Obama White House, Institute Of Bill Of Rights Law, William & Mary Law School

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Section 1: Moot Court: King V. Burwell, Institute Of Bill Of Rights Law, William & Mary Law School Sep 2014

Section 1: Moot Court: King V. Burwell, Institute Of Bill Of Rights Law, William & Mary Law School

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Section 6: Criminal, Institute Of Bill Of Rights Law, William & Mary Law School Sep 2014

Section 6: Criminal, Institute Of Bill Of Rights Law, William & Mary Law School

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Section 7: Same-Sex Marriage, Institute Of Bill Of Rights Law, William & Mary Law School Sep 2014

Section 7: Same-Sex Marriage, Institute Of Bill Of Rights Law, William & Mary Law School

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Section 5: First Amendment, Institute Of Bill Of Rights Law, William & Mary Law School Sep 2014

Section 5: First Amendment, Institute Of Bill Of Rights Law, William & Mary Law School

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Section 3: Civil Rights, Institute Of Bill Of Rights Law, William & Mary Law School Sep 2014

Section 3: Civil Rights, Institute Of Bill Of Rights Law, William & Mary Law School

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Section 4: Business, Institute Of Bill Of Rights Law, William & Mary Law School Aug 2014

Section 4: Business, Institute Of Bill Of Rights Law, William & Mary Law School

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Allison Orr Larsen On Intensely Empirical Amicus Briefs And Amicus Opportunism At The Supreme Court, Allison Orr Larsen Jul 2014

Allison Orr Larsen On Intensely Empirical Amicus Briefs And Amicus Opportunism At The Supreme Court, Allison Orr Larsen

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Following Lower-Court Precedent, Aaron-Andrew P. Bruhl Jul 2014

Following Lower-Court Precedent, Aaron-Andrew P. Bruhl

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This Article examines the role of lower-court precedent in the US Supreme Court’s decisions. The Supreme Court is rarely the first court to consider a legal question, and therefore the Court has the opportunity to be informed by and perhaps even persuaded by the views of the various lower courts that have previously addressed the issue. This Article considers whether the Court should give weight to lower-court precedent as a matter of normative theory and whether the Court in fact does so as a matter of practice. To answer the normative question, this Article analyzes a variety of potential reasons …


Symposium: Surprising Unanimity, Even More Surprising Clarity, Adam M. Gershowitz Jun 2014

Symposium: Surprising Unanimity, Even More Surprising Clarity, Adam M. Gershowitz

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Measuring Circuit Splits: A Cautionary Note, Aaron-Andrew P. Bruhl Jan 2014

Measuring Circuit Splits: A Cautionary Note, Aaron-Andrew P. Bruhl

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A number of researchers have recently published new measures of the Supreme Court’s behavior in resolving conflicts in the lower courts. These new measures represent an improvement over prior, cruder approaches, but it turns out that measuring the Court’s resolutions of conflicts is surprisingly difficult. The aim of this methodological comment is to describe those difficulties and to establish several conclusions that follow from them. First, the new measures of the Court’s behavior are certainly imprecise and may reflect biased samples. Second, using the Supreme Court Database, which some studies rely on to assemble a dataset of cases resolving conflicts, …