How does the Supreme Court decided to take up a case?

Weekly Quiz Responses on Chapter Readings (to be submitted to instructor via email by Wednesday, June 14):

1)    Why is a bureaucracy necessary to the functioning of government?

2)    Why do many people have negative impressions of the US federal bureaucracy?

3)    How does the Supreme Court decided to take up a case?

4)    Discuss a Supreme Court case from within the past year (for information on the Supreme Court, go to one of these or another website about the Supreme Court : http://supremecourtreview.com/; or the SCOTUS Blog: http://www.scotusblog.com/; or the New York Times: http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/s/supreme_court/index.html)

Reading: Barbour and Wright, Chapters 11 and 12 (to be read by our sixth week of class, which begins on Monday, June 19)