League Rules

NB. Because this is the inaugural season of FantasySCOTUS.net, the rules may be subject to change.  But as avid followers of the Supreme Court, you should have no problem with rules that are modified frequently.

Here are the basic rules. For each case the Supreme Court grants Cert, you will predict

    * The Outcome: Affirm or Reverse the lower Court. You will recieve 1 point for predicting the outcome correctly.
    * The Split: 5/4, 6/3, 7/2, 8/1, 9/0, or 4-1-4 , or Fragmented (no discernible majority opinion). You will receive 3 points for predicting the split.
    * Which Justices are in the Majority and which are in the Minority. You will receive 1 point for each Justice correctly guessed. No points for recusals.

For example, in in the mock case of Bosh v. Gure, you predict

    * Affirm the lower Court
    * 5/4 Split
    * Majority- Roberts, Alito, Kennedy, Thomas, and Scalia
    * Minority- Stevens, Ginsburg, Breyer,and Sotomayor

The Court resolves the case as follows:

    * Affirm the lower Court (You get 1 Point)
    * 5/4 Split (You get 3 Points)
    * Majority- Roberts, Alito, Ginsburg, Breyer, and Sotomayor (You only get 2 points, 1 point each for correctly guessing Roberts and Alito)
    * Minority- Stevens, Kennedy, Thomas, Scalia (You only get 1 point for correctly guessing Stevens would dissent)

Total of 7 points.

At the end of the Term, you will be ranked against your fellow Associate Justices, and the winner will receive the venerable title of the Chief Justice of Fantasy SCOTUS.  With this title comes some to-be-determined prize, The Golden Gavel Trophy, and a feature on JoshBlogs that you can brag about to all your friends.

Now you can play like the Tenth Justice.