So far this series has covered the critical opening document of an appendix for a U.S. Supreme Court petition for certiorari. Now we move down the list in Sup. Ct. R. 14.1(i) to other must-have documents. Other Relevant Decisions. After the decision you actually want the Supreme Court to review comes a required category of [...]
Now that you know how to focus your purpose in selecting appendix documents, you have to narrow your selection to the particular categories set out in the Supreme Court Rules. Required: “Relevant” lower court/agency orders. The required petition appendix documents are all court or administrative agency orders of some stripe. Rule 14.1(i)(i-iv). One thing to [...]
When you are putting together a U.S. Supreme Court petition’s “appendix,” forget what you know about collections of documents going by the same name under lower federal court and state court appellate rules. Just read Supreme Court Rule 14.1(i). The rule’s limited categories of required documents reflect the high court’s unique role and the narrow [...]
To read this Supreme Court petition, click the heading to open this post, then follow the link! Sandoz Inc. v. Amgen Inc., filed on February 16, 2016
Justice Antonin Scalia This Saturday, the owners and staff of Cockle Legal Briefs heard the news that Justice Antonin Scalia had passed away in the night. Our thoughts and prayers turn to his family, friends, and colleagues, and we join the rest of the nation in solemn remembrance of this iconic Supreme Court justice. Appointed to [...]
To read any of these Supreme Court petitions, click the heading to open this post, then follow the links! Welborn v. Texas, filed on February 10, 2016 Sunrise Children’s Servs., Inc. v. Kentucky, filed on February 10, 2016
To read any of these Supreme Court petitions, click the heading to open this post, then follow the links! Tarasenko v. Univ. of Arkansas, filed on February 1, 2016 Knight v. Thompson, filed on February 2, 2016 Vawter v. Comm’r of the Ind. Bureau of Motor Vehicles, filed on February 4, 2016
Brief of Virginia State Board of Elections Appellees in Wittman v. Personhuballah, No. 14-1504, filed on January 27, 2016 To read this Supreme Court merits brief, or to review the Court’s docket for this case, click the heading to open this post, then follow the links!
Michigan v. Edwards, filed on January 25, 2016 Michigan v. Uyeda, filed on January 26, 2016 Alves v. Bd. of Regents of the Univ. Sys. of Ga., filed on January 27, 2016 Mallards Cove, LLP v. Florida, filed on January 27, 2016 Nagle v. U.S., filed on January 28, 2016 To read any of [...]
Konowaloff v. Yale Univ., filed on January 15, 2016 Washington v. Moi, filed on January 21, 2016 To read any of these Supreme Court petitions, click the heading to open this post, then follow the links!