Daniel Epps & William Ortman, The Lottery Docket, 116 Mich. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2018), available at SSRN.

Marin K. Levy

Every year thousands of parties ask the Supreme Court to hear their cases. Every year the Court disappoints the vast majority of them, selecting only about one percent of cert petitions. And every year scholars decry the Court’s choices—arguing that the Justices have taken too few cases and not even the most important ones at that. One can imagine the Justices […]