Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito Jr., like his predecessor Sandra Day O'Connor, has joined the justices' so-called "cert pool" -- leaving John Paul Stevens once again as the only justice not participating in the controversial case-pooling arrangement. Alito confirmed his action in response to a query from Legal Times. With eight of nine justices participating, critics have said that the arrangement gives too much power to individual clerks to determine the fate of incoming cases.
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Justice Alito Joins Cert Pool Party
Legal Times
April 7, 2006
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