Today at the Supreme Court | 3.31.08
At 10 a.m., the Court is expected to release one or more opinions, as well as orders from the Justices’ private conference last Friday. We will post copies of both as soon as they become available.
March 2008 Archive
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Today’s Orders
A copy of today’s orders list — including grants of certiorari in two cases — is now available here. As they become available, all available certiorari-stage filings will be posted after the jump. __________________ Docket: 07-665 Case name: Pleasant Grove City, Utah v. Summum Issue: Whether, under the First Amendment, privately donated monuments placed in a public park qualify as private or government speech.
Government rebuffed on Capitol Hill searches
FURTHER UPDATED 11:45 a.m. This update includes, in the concluding paragraphs of the post, a report on an order issued on Sunday by Justice Anthony M. Kennedy in a California parole case.
The Week Ahead
No oral arguments are scheduled this week. On Monday, the Court is expected to release one or more opinions, as well as orders from the Justices’ private conference last Friday. No petitioners’ merits briefs are due this week.
Argument recap: US v. Ressam
Based on the briefs filed in Ressam, the heart of the issue before the Court is the proper interpretation of Section 844(h)(2). The oral argument was brief and did not seem to cover any new ground. Attorney General Michael Mukasey ran into some opposition in his initial argument before the Court.
Today at the Supreme Court | 3.28.08
The Justices are scheduled to hold a private conference at 10 a.m. If any orders are released this afternoon, we will post them promptly. To view our list of petitions to watch at today’s conference, click here.
Argument recap: Riley v. Kennedy
Though this appeal presented two questions to the Court, the first concerning the timeliness of the Governor’s appeal, the justices seemed interested only in the second question: Whether voting-related changes brought about by State court orders are covered by § 5.
Today at the Supreme Court | 3.27.08
No oral arguments are scheduled and no non-capital orders are expected to be issued from the Court today. If any orders are issued in pending cases, we will post them promptly.
Petitions to Watch | Conference of 4.11.08
The latest edition of “Petitions to Watch” features cases up for consideration at the Justices’ private conference of April 11. As always, the list reflects the petitions on the Court’s paid docket that Tom has deemed to have a reasonable chance of being granted.
State of the Practice
As we turn to the Term’s final month of arguments, I thought I would write a short update on the cases in which we’re involved. Akin (either alone or with the Stanford Supreme Court Litigation Clinic) is currently counsel to a party in twelve merits cases.