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Primary LanguageJupyter Notebook

Justices

  • John Roberts
  • Clarence Thomas
  • Samuel Alito
  • Sonia Sotomayor
  • Elena Kagan
  • Neil Gorsuch
  • Brett Kavanaugh
  • Amy Coney Barrett
  • Ketanji Brown Jackson

re-do opinions to have a folder for each justice?

Goal: predict the arguments and/or opinions of each justice is specific scenarios. Include how they would vote as well.

process:

  • would need to use Stateful RNN?
  • Long Short-Term Memory
  • Grated Recurrent Unit
  • Transormer Models - BERT - GPT
  • Sequence-to-sequence models
  • SENTIMENT ANALYSIS?
  • RESEARCH!

Links:

oral arguments

opinions:

scotus db:

Glossary: Decision Type

  • decrees
  • equally divided vote
  • judgment of the Court (orally argued)
  • opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • per curiam (no oral argument)
  • per curiam (orally argued)
  • seriatim
  • certiorari
  • special concurrence
  • remanded

JUSTICE / VOTING

Vote Type

  • voted with majority or plurality
  • dissent
  • regular concurrence
  • special concurrence
  • judgment of the Court
  • dissent from a denial or dismissal of certiorari , or dissent from summary affirmation of an appeal
  • jurisdictional dissent
  • justice participated in an equally divided vote

Opinion Type

  • justice wrote no opinion
  • justice wrote an opinion
  • justice co-authored an opinion

Vote Direction

  • conservative
  • liberal

Vote Majority

  • dissent
  • majority

CASE OUTCOME

Winning Party

  • no favorable disposition for petitioning party apparent
  • petitioning party received a favorable disposition
  • favorable disposition for petitioning party unclear

Case Disposition

  • stay, petition, or motion granted
  • affirmed (includes modified)
  • reversed
  • reversed and remanded
  • vacated and remanded
  • affirmed and reversed (or vacated) in part
  • affirmed and reversed (or vacated) in part and remanded
  • vacated
  • petition denied or appeal dismissed
  • certification to or from a lower court
  • no disposition

Declaration Unconstitutional

  • no declaration of unconstitutionality
  • act of congress declared unconstitutional
  • state or territorial law, reg, or const provision unconstitutional
  • municipal or other local ordinance unconstitutional

Precedent Alteration

  • no determinable alteration of precedent
  • precedent altered