Sunday, May 01, 2016 UCLA law students do the legwork to get cases heard by the Supreme Court Four cases brought by the law school’s Supreme Court Clinic were chosen for review this year Maggie Sharpe | February 24, 2016 Christelle Snow/UCLA Of the roughly 10,000 cases presented to the Supreme Court each year, only 60 to 70 are actually heard in court. UCLA Law’s Supreme Court Clinic got four this year. After police detective Jeffrey Heffernan was seen carrying a sign for a mayoral candidate, he was demoted. This appears to be a pretty clear violation of the First Amendment, which protects non-political public employees from being punished for supporting someone running for office. But Heffernan wasn’t actually showing his support for Paterson, New Jersey mayoral candidate Lawrence Spagnol
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