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Public Citizen Releases Statistical Survey of Public Interest Cases in the Latest Supreme Court Term

By Deepak Gupta

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 Supreme-court The Supreme Court's October 2008 Term ended June 29th, when the Court released the final opinions of the Term. In an attempt to quantify the Court's decisions, Public Citizen's Supreme Court Assistance Project has gone beyond its usual Watch List to conduct a statistical survey of the Court's treatment of public interest cases.

Our survey--prepared by Public Citizen's current Supreme Court Fellow Leah Nicholls--measures how often the Court and each of the Justices decided in favor of expanding individual and environmental rights versus contracting those rights. Via both text and graphs, it examines cases in four categories:

  • Access to Courts and Remedies
  • Civil Rights
  • Constitutional Rights, and
  • Environmental Claims.

The report concludes with a brief discussion of the opinion-drafting assignments in the Term's most important public-interest cases. We hope you find the survey interesting and useful.

Full post as published by CL&P Blog on July 08, 2009 (boomark / email).

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