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Originally Posted by Robbie
I don't know.
But I don't think any cases get to the Supreme Court without being litigated first by lower courts. Isn't that the way it works? I'm not sure...
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I wasn't 100% sure either but being fascinated by the legal system I had to research it because I do remember a few cases not going through the normal process of working their way up through the lower courts. Bush V. Gore was one, although it did go through Florida's Supreme Court first it was fast tracked to the US Supreme Court without going through the circuit courts first.
According to the rules of the SC, Supreme Court Rule 11 provides that a case may be taken by the Court before judgment in a lower court "only upon a showing that the case is of such imperative public importance as to justify deviation from normal appellate practice and to require immediate determination in this Court."
Procedures of the Supreme Court of the United States