I continue my blogging of some excerpts from Mayer Brown’s Federal Appellate Practice treatise. Today’s item is also about amicus briefs, and in particular amicus briefs supporting petitions for discretionary review (such as petitions for certiorari) rather than amicus briefs on the merits:
In the Supreme Court, amicus briefs likely have a greater impact at the petition stage than at the merits stage. A recent study found that a