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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Hardly. You misunderstand what the failure to grant cert actually means. The Supreme Court ruling against Apple might have meant what you say, but the Supreme Court declining to hear the case simply means that the ruling has no legal precedence in any other circuit other than the 2nd.
We are already seeing this court decline to hear a number of high profile cases. I suspect that will continue to be the case until we have an odd number of judges again. We really don't know why the Supreme Court declined to hear the case. It could be that it was likely to end up a 4-4 tie, it could be that they felt that they had more pressing cases to hear. I think that it's likely that if a majority of judges wanted to make the statement that you claim, then they would have heard the case and voted that way. Not hearing the case makes no statement at all.
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Okay, I don't know the american law system, but wouldn't not hearing a case mean, that the majority of judges think that the appeal has no chance at all and don't need a full trial to come to that conclusion? Because the case appears to be clear for them?