Linda Greenhouse Investigates “The Case of the Dwindling Docket”
on Dec 6, 2006 at 11:08 pm
It’s the function of mulitple factors, she suggests — e.g., few major new complex statutes; more consensus in the courts of appeals; the growing infrequency of government losses in the lower courts; reticence of clerks in the cert. pool; etc.
The Orin Kerr post that Greenhouse quotes about boring times for CONLAW scholars is here.
More on this subject here and here.
