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The Justices are scheduled to hold a private conference this morning, orders from which are expected to be released on Monday. To view our list of petitions to watch at today’s conference, click here. No oral arguments are scheduled and no non-capital orders are expected to be released today.
UPDATE 12:31 p.m. Washington attorney Theodore B. Olson will argue first on Monday afternoon in the case discussed below. The parties notified the Supreme Court on Friday that they had agreed that Olson would represent the governor, the state and the town of Charlestown.
Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., has refused a request by the C-SPAN cable and radio network to release on Tuesday the audiotape of the Court’s oral argument that morning in Federal Communications Commission v. Fox Television Stations (07-582).
No oral arguments are scheduled and no non-capital orders are expected to be released today from the Court. Arguments are next scheduled for November 3.
Unless Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., intervenes, some of the argument in the Supreme Court chamber next Tuesday morning may sound at times like a typical conversation in a seventh grade boys’ restroom — the uninhibited use of four-letter words.
This edition of “Petitions to Watch” features cases up for consideration at the Justices’ private conference on November 14. As always, the list contains the petitions on the Court’s paid docket that Tom has deemed to have a reasonable chance of being granted.
A military commission at Guantanamo Bay refused on Wednesday to reconsider the sentence it imposed on a Yemeni national, Salim Ahmed Hamdan, after his conviction in August.
No oral arguments are scheduled and no non-capital orders are expected to be released today from the Court. Arguments are next scheduled for November 3.
At 1 p.m. next Monday, an attorney will step to the Supreme Court’s podium to open the argument in a case pitting the rights of states against the rights of Indian tribes and the power of the federal government.
No oral arguments are scheduled and no non-capital orders are expected to be released today from the Court. Arguments are next scheduled for November 3.