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G.R. No. 180643 is the case docket number originally assigned by the Supreme Court at the time the action was filed with the Court (G.R. stands for General Register) [18] [19] 25 March 2008 is the exact date the decision of this case was promulgated; 549 is the volume number of the Supreme Court Reports Annotated where the case may be found
Each case is assigned a number in the format D:YY-TT-SSSSS where D=Division Office (most districts are split into divisions), YY=Year, TT=Type (e.g. bk=bankruptcy, cv=civil, cr=criminal), SSSSS=Sequence number. The case number does not contain any type of court identifier, so a two-letter state abbreviation is needed, and when a state has ...
The justices of the Supreme Court have almost complete discretion over the cases they choose to hear. From the large number of cases which it receives, only 70 to 100 will be placed on the docket. The Solicitor General decides which cases to present on behalf of the federal government. [9]
Court historians and other legal scholars consider each chief justice who presides over the Supreme Court of the United States to be the head of an era of the Court. [1] These lists are sorted chronologically by chief justice and include most major cases decided by the court.
For cases from federal circuit and district courts prior to 1880, U.S. courts use Federal Cases. [24] The Federal Reporter, the Federal Supplement, and Federal Cases are all part of the NRS and include headnotes marked with West key numbers. [25] West's NRS also includes several unofficial state-specific reporters for large states like ...
Karen Read, 44, of Mansfield, who is accused of killing her boyfriend John O'Keefe in Canton was in Dedham court Friday ahead of her trial next week. Karen Read makes final court date before ...
The Federal Reporter organizes court opinions within each volume by the date of the decision, and includes the full official text of the court's opinion. West editors add headnotes that summarize key principles of law in the cases, and Key Numbers that classify the decisions by topic within the West American Digest System.
Karen Read returns to court Monday for the first time since her murder case involving her Boston police officer boyfriend ended in a mistrial. Read is accused of ramming into John O’Keefe with ...