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Justice Alito Opts Out of the Cert Pool

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In Legal Times, Tony Mauro reports, "Justice Alito Changes Mind, Gets Out of Pool."On his first anniversary on the Supreme Court, Justice Samuel Alito Jr. told Legal Times that he was satisfied with the Court's long-standing law clerk pooling arrangement, known as the "cert pool." That's the plan, started more than 30 years ago, whereby justices' law clerks divide up incoming petitions and one law clerk summarizes each petition for the benefit of all the justices in the pool. Those pool memos can be the only documents justices read before deciding to grant or deny review in the case. Only Justice John Paul Stevens has remained outside the pool, preferring to have his own clerks take an independent look at the petitions to be sure worthy cases are not missed and flawed cases are not granted...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 29, 2008 (boomark / email).