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Certpool.com

John Elwood at the Volokh Conspiracy and Kent Scheidegger at Crime and Consequences have noted a new resource for Supreme Court watchers. Certpool.com is a website dedicated to tracking the Court's certiorari docket. The site--developed by Texas attorney Don Cruse--separates SCOTUS petitions into federal circuits or state courts from which the petitions originated. This is a valuable site for SCOTUS [...]

Matters of Practice: Citations and Quotations in U.S. Supreme Court Briefs

Shon R. Hopwood2019-03-18T18:47:58-05:00June 8th, 2011|Tags: "v" in versus, Carter Phillips, citations, John Elwood, matters of practice, Orin Kerr, Paul Clement, quotations, Supreme Court briefs, Tim Coates, Tom Goldstein, Walter Dellinger|

I will be writing a series of posts (entitled “Matters of Practice”) on the most frequently asked questions I receive about filing briefs in the U.S. Supreme Court. This is the first post in the series. At Cockle Printing, I am often asked what citation style the Supreme Court prefers and whether the [...]