Supreme Court using poorly Supported Data to support their decisions.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/09/02/1326521/-Supreme-Court-justices-using-poorly-supported-data-in-their-decisions-poorly?detail=facebook

The Supreme Court received more than 80 friend-of-the-court briefs in the Hobby Lobby case. Most of these filings, also called amicus briefs, were dull and repetitive recitations of familiar legal arguments.

More information the better, right? Right????

Some of the factual assertions in recent amicus briefs would not pass muster in a high school research paper. But that has not stopped the Supreme Court from relying on them. Recent opinions have cited “facts” from amicus briefs that were backed up by blog posts, emails or nothing at all.

The report with a bit more information.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/02/us/politics/the-dubious-sources-of-some-supreme-court-facts.html?_r=0