It was a difficult year at the U.S. Supreme Court. Not only did Justice Antonin Scalia’s death cast a shadow over the term, but Senate politics left the court with a key vacancy amid a stalled nomination. As a result, the 2015-16 term had several 4-4 ties in some of the biggest cases of the year. The justices even took the rare step of remanding the latest challenge to the Affordable Care Act, instructing the parties to try to work out a compromise.
Despite the unusual term, friends of the court continued to play a key role at One First Street. In our sixth year analyzing the Supreme Court’s amicus curiae docket for The National Law Journal, we found that amici filed more than 860 briefs, participated in more than 90 percent of merits cases, and, more often than not, seemed to capture the justices’ attention.
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