The Week Ahead

No oral arguments or private conferences are scheduled at the Court this week. Oral arguments will resume December 1.

On Monday, the Court will release at least one opinion, as well as the remaining orders from the Justices’ private conference last Friday. We will provide coverage of all developments at 10 a.m. Eastern. To view the list of cases granted last Friday following the conference, click here.

On Thursday, U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon will deliver an oral ruling on a habeas petition filed by six Bosnian detainees in Boumediene v. Bush — the same Guantanamo detainees at the center of last term’s Supreme Court decision that found Congress could not forbid such challenges. Also on Thursday, a D.C. Circuit panel will hold a hearing in Bismullah v. Gates on the continuing validity of an alternative procedure for challenging detention established in the Detainee Treatment Act of 2005.

Merits briefs for petitioners are due on Monday in Kansas v. Ventris (07-1356), Montejo v. Louisiana (07-1529), Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Company, et al. v. United States; Shell Oil Company v. United States (07-1601; 07-1607), Puckett v. United States (07-9712), Corley v. United States (07-10441), and Vermont v. Brillon (08-88), and on Friday Boyle v. United States (07-1309). No merits briefs for respondents are due this week.

(Links above direct to case pages on SCOTUSwiki.)