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Justice Alito jumping out of the cert pool!!

By Douglas A. Berman

Though it won't garner as much attention as a big ruling, Adam Liptak reports here some huge news coming from the Supreme Court: Justice Samuel Alito is getting out of the cert pool.  Here's more from Liptak's story in today's New York Times:For almost 20 years, eight of the nine justices on the Supreme Court have assigned their law clerks to a shared legal labor pool that streamlines the work of reviewing incoming cases.  Only Justice John Paul Stevens has declined to participate.  He relies on his own clerks to help cull perhaps 80 worthy cases from the thousands of appeals, called petitions for certiorari, that reach the court each year. The justices who participate in the arrangement, known around the court as the ?cert. pool,? receive a common ?pool memo? on each case from a single clerk...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on September 26, 2008 (boomark / email).