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You have decided to respond to your opponent’s petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Supreme Court. You know that you have 30 days from the petition’s docketing date to file a brief in opposition, but what sections are required? How do you structure your brief? Does there need to be an appendix? [...]
Quick Guide to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals Website For people that are new to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals or are visiting the Court’s website for the first time, the Court offers a Quick Guide to getting started. This Guide is full of valuable resources and links. Here you can find information [...]
McCauley v. Sec’y, Fla. Dept. of Corr., filed on December 2, 2014 Whitaker v. Mississippi, filed on December 4, 2014
At Cockle Legal Briefs we work with a great variety of customers, including incarcerated prisoners appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court as pro se litigants. Prisoners who believe that some aspect of their conviction or confinement is unlawful are entitled to bring their cases to the courts—even as far as the highest Court. Some prisoners [...]
Merrimon v. UNUM Life Ins. Co. of Am., filed on November 21, 2014 Rivera v. Michigan, filed on November 21, 2014 Jones v. Wagner, filed on November 24, 2014 Sarras v. U.S., filed on November 26, 2014
Since the founding of the Republic, the United States Supreme Court has sat atop the federal judiciary, representing one of the three co-equal branches of government. Yet the Court did not get its own, permanent home until 1935. In that year, the Court moved from the Old Senate Chamber in the Capitol Building, and took [...]
Brief For Respondents in Reed v. Town of Gilbert, Arizona, No. 13-502, filed on November 14, 2014.
Oklahoma v. Burwell, filed on November 18, 2014 Kagan v. City of New Orleans, filed on November 18, 2014 Hurst v. Lee Cnty., Mississippi, filed on November 19, 2014 Kot v. U.S., filed on November 20, 2014
The look of the Supreme Court brief has not changed much over the past few decades, but the process used to produce it sure has. For most of the Supreme Court’s history, something other than a computer with word-processing was used to create a Supreme Court brief. Typesetting (known as word-processing today) was a long [...]
Stockbridge-Munsee Cmty. v. New York, filed on November 7, 2014 Baker Cnty. Med. Servs., Inc. v. Morton, filed on November 12, 2014