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Four of the nine justices must vote to grant a writ of certiorari (the so-called Rule of Four). Only a fraction of the petitions submitted to the Supreme Court will be accepted; approximately 7500 petitions are presented each year and somewhere between 80 and 150 are granted.
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How many justices will have to agree before the Court will accept a case?
The US Supreme Court determines whether to hear a case according to the Rule of Four. If at least four of the nine Justices of the Supreme Court agree, they will grant certiorari and hear the case.
How many US Supreme Court justices must agree to hear an appeal?
The US Supreme Court determines whether to hear a case according to the Rule of Four. If at least four of the nine Justices of the Supreme Court agree, they will grant certiorari and hear the case.
How many justices need to give their approval before a case is heard by the court?
Four Justices out of the nine are enough to grant a writ of certiorari (which is the term used for the Supreme Court deciding to hear a case). For more information, see Related Links, below.
How many members of the court are needed to grant a case the Writ of Certiorari?
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How many votes are needed to accept a case in the US Supreme Court?
It requires the vote of at least four of the nine US Supreme Court justices to grant a petition for writ of certiorari. If four Justices agree, the Supreme Court will accept the case. This is referred to as the "Rule of Four."
How many US Supreme Court justices were in office while Ulysses S. Grant was president?
There were nine Supreme Court Justices in 1869, when Ulysses S. Grant became the 18th US president. There have been a maximum of 9 Justices on the court ever since.
Who choose the cases for the supreme to hear?
Theoretically, the justices themselves do. If they are interested in hearing a particular case, they issue a writ of certiorari (sometimes referred to as "granting cert"). If four of the justices believe the case should be heard before the full court, then it is granted certiorari and the case is added to the schedule. In practice, because the court gets about a hundred times as many petitions as it can possibly review, law clerks working for the justices (in what's called the "cert pool") have a significant say in which petitions get recommended for a hearing and which ones do not.
How many writs of certiorari have been granted?
There have been tens of thousands of writs of certiorari granted in the history of the US Supreme Court.
How many cases the US Supreme Court accept out of 900?
The Supreme Court accepts approximately 1-2% of the cases it receives on appeal. The Court may grant certiorari to 9-18 out of 900 cases.
How many US Supreme Court justices are on the Court today?
Currently, there are nine Supreme Court justices on the United States Supreme Court. The number of justices is set by Congress and has varied from five to 10. There have been nine justices since 1869. In 1937, Franklin Roosevelt attempted to add six more justices to the Supreme Court. He felt the court was obstructing much of his New Deal policies and adding more members who would agree with his views would help. This was termed the "Court Packing Plan." However, Congress did not agree and so the number remains at nine.
Should all the US Supreme Court justices agree to hear a case?
No. It would be too difficult, create too many power struggles and too much animosity, and slow the process of creating the docket to a crawl if justices were required to agree unanimously to hear a case. The current "rule of four" (only four of the nine justices must agree in order to accept a case) was designed to ensure the minority faction of the court (whether liberal or conservative) has an opportunity to address cases it considers important without being blocked by the majority.
How many Justices are on the Hawaii Supreme Court?
There are five Justices.
