Makes sense, thanks. Admittedly, I’m not a big follower of the SCOTUS, or any kind of follower at all, actually. Could be wrong, or maybe I’ve just forgotten, but I don’t believe I’ve ever heard of anybody going back to the Court for seconds, and certainly not thirds. Must not happen very often?
“I’ve ever heard of anybody going back to the Court for seconds,”
Even firsts is fairly rare. This one didn’t actually make into the court - they declined to review the circuit decision. That said, I’d say it’s likely that a percentage of the cases that eventually are heard by the court had at one time been turned away with the basic message “let the process run its course before we decide if we want to hear it.”
That might be the case here, although the constitutional issues they raised looked like major reaches to me.
http://www.ca1.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/getopn.pl?OPINION=10-1883P.01A