Solving the Puzzle of Interest Group Litigation

by Andrew Jay Koshner

Koshner explores the increase in interest group participation before the U.S. Supreme Court. Since 1953, when less than 13 percent of the Court's full opinion cases were accompanied by friend of the court briefs, there has been a steady increase in interest group litigation. By the 1993 term, interest groups participated in 92 percent of the cases brought before the Supreme Court. While asking whether the rise in interest group activity in this...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313305838
• ISBN13: 9780313305832
• Release Date: February 1998
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"