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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"certiorari"”.
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All the court's cases: a study of Burger court certiorari policy
While many scholars have ignored the cases that constitute the total litigational input to the U.S. Supreme Court, some have examined the possibility of a set policy or agenda for gatekeeping,or determination of which cases will be heard. This study is concerned with the methodological implications …
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The Writ of Certiorari and Its Scope, 1600-1800: For the Orderly Administration of Justice
… legal history methodology to examine the writ of certiorari in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Using legal manuscripts and parliamentary records, it aims to re-evaluate the conventional answers to four key questions: how did the Court of King’s Bench come to use the writ of certiorari to …
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The Impact of Institutional Rules on the U.S. Supreme Court
… to come to it before deciding them. The Court’s certiorari process is, however, a powerful device that provides justices with full discretion over cases they hear and which individual questions within those cases they will decide. Thus, while the justices often grant certiorari on all questions …
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Solicitor Success: The Continuing Exploration of the Determinants of Governmental Success at the Supreme Court, 1986-2005
… success before the Supreme Court, both at the certiorari stage and at the merits stage. These studies offer a variety of explanations for Solicitor General success, but fail to portray accurately the Office of the Solicitor General and to account for variations in governmental success. This …
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The Roberts Court Constitution of Freedom of Speech: Preferences, Principles, and the Study of Supreme Court Decision-making
… voting alignments. Fourth, the Court’s certiorari process in free expression controversies is better explained by jurisprudential concerns rather than ideological cues. However, once disaggregating the Court’s certiorari docket by issue area, there is evidence for both the ideological …
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The inherent review jurisdiction of the supreme court
… the remedy and the (then) English writ of certiorari, neither the latter nor any other English remedy was found to be the direct source of the remedy at the Cape. Apart from its academic interest. the examination of the relevant law and the administration of Justice in Ceylon and strictish …