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Originally Posted by dickloraine
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?
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Actually not, at least not for the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court only hears a small percentage of the cases that they are asked to review, on a yearly basis, they hear between 100-150 out of the some 7,000+ cases that they are asked to hear.
This link gives some the criteria that the Supreme Court uses.
http://litigation.findlaw.com/legal-...ar-a-case.html
When you read some of the interviews of the various Supreme Court justices and they talk about what cases they hear or don't hear, they never talk about whither or not the case has any chance. They talk about is the case important, or is there a disagreement between two different circuits, is it of particular to one judge or another or does it fly in the face of another Supreme Court decision (it's going to be very interesting to see what happens with Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin)