Today at the Supreme Court | 9.30.08
The Court is in the final week of the summer recess. Oral arguments are scheduled to resume Monday, October 6. To view the list of arguments scheduled thus far, visit our case list on SCOTUSwiki.
September 2008 Archive
Every post published in September 2008, most recent first.
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No orders today
The Supreme Court will not be releasing any orders today on actions taken at Monday’s opening Conference. Readers are advised to check daily at 10 a.m.
SCOTUSwiki Preview: Locke v. Karass
Below, Georgetown 3L and 2008 Akin Gump summer associate Michael Bonsignore previews Locke v. Karass, scheduled to be the second of three cases heard by the Court on Monday, October 6th. Please check back with SCOTUSwiki following oral argument for additional updates.
Assistant to Solicitor General Moves to Private Practice
Congratulations to Kannon Shanmugam, who is leaving the Office of the Solicitor General after four years to become a partner at Williams & Connolly. Appropriately, Kannon’s first day at Williams & Connolly is October 6 — i.e., the first Monday in October.
Conference Call: Do Guilty Verdicts Have to Be Unanimous?
The following column, featuring a selected petition up for consideration at the Justices’ opening conference, appears in today’s edition of Legal Times (available to subscribers here). To see the full list of “petitions to watch” for today’s conference, click here.
The Week Ahead
The Court will hold its opening conference of the upcoming term on Monday, where, in addition to the hundreds of petitions that have amassed during the summer recess, the Court will consider the petition for rehearing in Kennedy v. Louisiana (07-343).
Final brief on Kennedy v. Louisiana
In the final brief to be filed before the Supreme Court decides whether to reconsider a major ruling on the death penalty, the state of Louisiana cautioned the Justices not to make the issue depend solely upon the Court’s own constitutional perceptions, arguing that Congress and the state
GTMO Conditions and Transfer Claims
A slight amplification on Lyle’s thorough post below: Lyle writes that “[i]f Judge Hogan’s rulings withstand appeals, they would wipe out many of the claims that detainees have made since Boumediene – challenges to transfers, to transfers without first notifying detainees’ lawyers, to a lack of
UPDATE: Davis execution blocked
UPDATE 5:17 p.m. The Supreme Court blocked the scheduled execution Tuesday evening in Georgia of Troy Anthony Davis, giving itself time to consider his appeal challenging his conviction for the murder of an off-duty police officer in Savannah. The stay order is here.
Test of “Sarbanes-Oxley”
A case that a federal judge described as “the most important separation-of-powers case regarding the President’s appointment and removal powers to reach the courts in the last 20 years” is bound, ultimately, for the Supreme Court.