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Staff Spotlight: Sherry Fletcher

Cockle Legal Briefs employs attorneys, paralegals, typesetters, printers, accountants, and salesmen to produce about 1,300 Supreme Court briefs a year and files documents in every Federal court of appeals in the country. Whatever they do, whatever position they fill, Cockle people share a passion for helping their clients. Meet some of the people who [...]

Friendly Persuasion: The Increase and Influence of Amici Curiae at the Supreme Court

Mathew Planalp2023-01-30T08:56:56-06:00January 14th, 2016|Tags: amici, briefs, legal, rules, SCOTUS, Supreme Court|

During the 2014-2015 Supreme Court term, amicus briefs were filed in 98 percent of merits stage cases. A total of 781 amicus briefs – or almost 12 per case – were filed in controversies set for oral argument last year. “That’s more than double the briefs-per-case filed in the 1990s, and 12 times those [...]