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Advanced SEARCH TIP: What Do You Know About Justice Sotomayor?

Suppose you want clues about how Justice Sotomayor would approach a particular issue. Where do you start?

Search the Supreme Court Nominee Sonia Sotomayor Opinions and Papers database (SOTOMAYOR-NOM), containing opinions, orders, briefs, and other documents that she authored or joined.

You can narrow your search of SOTOMAYOR-NOM using field restrictions. For example, to narrow your search to opinions and other documents authored by U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Sotomayor that involve the persecution claims of asylum applicants, add an author field (au) restriction to your query, e.g., au(sotomayor) & persecut! /p asylum.