The Week Ahead
On Monday, the Court will release the remaining orders from the Justices’ private conference last Tuesday. (Click here to see the initial orders list, and here for our list of petitions to watch at the conference.)
November 2008 Archive
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December hearing list
The Supreme Court on Friday released the list of oral arguments in the session beginning Monday, Dec. 1. It can be found here. Hearings will be in the mornings only. Brief summaries of the issues involved are in this post.
Today at the Supreme Court | 11.28.08
No oral arguments are scheduled and no non-capital orders are expected to be released from the Court today. Oral arguments will resume December 1.
Early ruling on detainee process?
A federal judge who is coordinating the cases of some 200 Guantanamo Bay detainees challenging their confinement signaled on Friday that he may act soon on the government’s plea to modify significantly how those cases are processed.
Petitions to Watch | Conferences of 12.5.08 & 12.12.08
This edition of “Petitions to Watch” features cases up for consideration at the Justices’ private conferences on December 5 and December 12. 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.
Today at the Supreme Court | 11.26.08
No oral arguments are scheduled and no non-capital orders are expected to be released from the Court today. Oral arguments will resume December 1.
Detainees want deadlines kept
Accusing government lawyers of a “consistent strategy of obstruction and delay,” attorneys for Guantanamo Bay detainees are urging a federal judge not to relax the timetables he has set to enable the prisoners’ legal challenges to move forward.
AMK Bobblehead Auction
No need to wait for Black Friday . . . SCOTUSblog readers can get a jump on their holiday shopping right now over at Ebay, where John Elwood is auctioning off his Justice Kennedy bobblehead.
FTC pursues computer tech appeal
UPDATE: The petition has now been assigned docket number 08-694. ——————— The Federal Trade Commission has asked the Supreme Court to allow it to police attempts by companies to manipulate for their own advantage the process of setting standards for new technologies built into consumer products, like computers.
U.S. supports voting rights law’s extension
The Justice Department on Wednesday urged the Supreme Court to uphold Congress’ 25-year extension of the key part of federal voting rights law that requires many states and local governments to get clearance in Washington before they change their election laws or methods.