[EL] question about US Supreme Court procedure

[Bzall]

Or they could simply call the clerk’s office. Once, long ago, in a similar situation, the Clerk’s office assured me that my brief would be distributed; I will say, however, that it was quite a relief to later see Justice Souter referring to it on the bench.

Barnaby Zall

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> On May 24, 2018, at 1:23 PM, Ilya Shapiro <IShapiro at cato.org> wrote:
> 
> If they were all properly filed, they’ll all be distributed. It could be that the other two came in later in the day or something. 
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> On May 25, 2018, at 5:30 AM, Richard Winger <richardwinger at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>> Yesterday the US Supreme Court received 3 amici curiae briefs in Segovia v US, the case about whether Illinois citizens who move to Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, or Guam should be allowed to continue voting absentee in Illinois.  They can't under current law, but if they move to American Samoa or Northern Mariana Islands, they can.
>> 
>> The conference date for this case in the Supreme Court is June 7.  The web page of the US Supreme Court says that one of the three amici, from 6 law professors, has already been distributed.  But the other two amici, from the government of Puerto Rico and the Bar Assn of the Virgin Islands, has not been distributed.  It seems odd to me that one has been distributed, but the other two haven't been, even though all 3 came in the same day.  Is some official of the US Supreme Court making a decision that the law professor amici needs to go quickly to the justices, whereas the other two don't deserve such treatment?
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