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Lecturer in Law Thomas Goldstein is quoted and the Supreme Court Litigation Clinic is mentioned in this Legal Times story about which cases are put on the Supreme Court docket:
... Thomas Goldstein makes a similar point. "We advocates tend to think it's all about the lawyering. But the most important trend by far is the increasing conservatism and pro-business orientation of the justices themselves." All the highly polished pro-business petitions in the world, he adds, "wouldn't get anywhere on a Court with nine Bill Brennans," a reference to the late liberal lion, Justice William Brennan Jr. [Note: Goldstein is an occasional contributor to Legal Times.]
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In its first year of existence, for example, Goldstein's Stanford Law School clinic worked on four petitions -- and all four were granted.