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Originally Posted by pwalker8
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) |
Okay, but since the appeal based on saying that the judgment disregarded a previous ruling of the supreme court, that would be a strong reason to hear it. Not hearing it basically means, they don't think it contradicts the previous ruling.