Army Corps’ Row Could Fuel Rehearing Long Shot

Getting the U.S. Supreme Court to grant a petition for rehearing is an “uphill battle,” Latham & Watkins LLP’s Melissa Sherry told Bloomberg BNA.

“During the 2006–2010 Terms, a total of 3,532 rehearing petitions were filed,” a leading Supreme Court treatise, Stephen M. Shapiro et al., Supreme Court Practice §15.I.5 (10th ed. 2013), says.

“The Court granted only three, two of them in cases that were consolidated,” the treatise said, citing Boumediene v. Bush, 551 U.S. 1160 and Al Odah v. United States, 551 U.S. 1160.

The court last granted a petition for rehearing in 2012, according to research ...