The Alan Morrison
Supreme Court Assistance Project
The Alan Morrison Supreme Court Assistance Project (SCAP) has the unique mission of offering free, pro bono legal assistance at the pre-certiorari stage, both to oppose petitions for certiorari in order to protect public interest victories in lower courts, and also to file petitions for certiorari asking the Supreme Court for review of important open legal questions. SCAP also frequently provides assistance in public interest cases at the merits stage, both helping on briefs and conducting moot courts. Click here for further description.
S.Ct. Watch List
- Sign up here to join the Supreme Court Watch List and receive an update about pending cert. petitions of public interest before each Supreme Court conference.
- View the current S.Ct. Watch List and read about recent Supreme Court conferences.
- View previous S.Ct. Watch Lists.
View our
Statistical Survey for the 2008 Term.
The Supreme Court's 2008 Term ended June 29th when the Court released the final opinions of the Term. In an attempt to quantify the Court’s decisions, Public Citizen’s Supreme Court Assistance Project has gone beyond its usual Watch List to conduct a statistical survey of the Court’s treatment of public interest cases.
Our survey measures how often the Court and each of the Justices decided in favor of expanding individual and environmental rights versus contracting those rights. Via both text and graphs, we examine cases in four categories: Access to Courts and Remedies, Civil Rights, Constitutional Rights, and Environmental Claims. The report concludes with a brief discussion of the opinion-drafting assignments in the Term’s most important public-interest cases.
We hope you find our survey interesting and useful.
For a list of all cases granted and decided during the 2008 Term, visit the Supreme Court's website.
2008 Supreme Court Term Statistics
Court Cases
- Our Active Supreme Court Cases on the Docket
- Chronology of Cases Public Citizen Litigation Group Has Argued Before the Supreme Court
- Questions Presented in the 2006 Term [outside link: click on docket number for Questions Presented]
- Questions Presented in the 2007 Term [outside link: click on docket number for Questions Presented]
- Guide to Opposing Supreme Court Review by Litigation Group lawyer Scott Nelson
- Click here to make your tax-deductible contribution.
More Information
For Legal Assistance, Contact:
SCAP Coordinator
Public Citizen Litigation Group
1600 20th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20009
(202) 588-7727
E-mail the SCAP Coordinator
About the Fellowship:
About Our Attorneys:
- Attorney Biographies
- Public Citizen Litigation Group Argues 50th Supreme Court Case
- May 2004 Legal Times article about Alan Morrison
- Program from Alan Morrison's July 2004 Farewell Dinner
