Each year, a small crop of highly credentialed law school grads arrives at the U.S. Supreme Court to serve as law clerks for the justices. Among their duties: analyzing whether petitions for writ of certiorari are meritorious and should be granted. In this commentary, appellate litigator Howard J. Bashman weighs in on the continuing controversy over the high court's cert pool and its possible hazards.
October 15, 2007 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
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Each year, a small crop of highly credentialed recent law school graduates arrives at the U.S. Supreme Court to serve as law clerks for the nine justices. One significant duty that these clerks perform is analyzing whether petitions for writ of certiorari — written arguments asking the Court to accept a case for review on the merits — are meritorious and should be granted.
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