Today’s Orders
The Court has granted certiorari in the following 10 cases. The full order list is available here.
September 2009 Archive
Every post published in September 2009, most recent first.
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Wednesday Round-Up
Yesterday, the Court held its annual “long conference,” in which the Justices discussed which of last summer’s cert. petitions it will hear this term.
Court to rule on gun rights, terrorism law
Taking on a major new constitutional dispute over gun rights, the Supreme Court agreed on Wednesday to decide whether to apply the Second Amendment to state, county, and city government laws.
Analysis: Making rights grow
Analysis The Supreme Court has a few ways of recognizing — one might say “creating” — new constitutional rights, but it has one that it has not used for 30 years.
Petitions to Watch | Conference of 9.29.09 (Part V)
This is the fifth and final edition of “Petitions to Watch” featuring cases up for consideration at the Justices’ opening conference of September 29. Included in today’s post are cases in which the Solicitor General has filed invitation briefs or letters since the end of last Term.
Tuesday Round-Up
Today’s Supreme Court grants cert. in about half as many cases as it did in the 1980s. In his Sidebar piece, Adam Liptak of The New York Times attempts to explain this mysterious shrinking docket.
Solicitor General briefs in cert. and merits stage cases
The Solicitor General has recently filed the following briefs: Petition Stage Invitation : No. 08-998: Hamilton v. Lanning (supporting certiorari; other cert. filings here) Merits Stage Amicus : No. 08-661: American Needle v. National Football League et al.
Petitions to Watch | Conference of 9.29.09 (Part IV)
This is the fourth edition of “Petitions to Watch” featuring cases up for consideration at the Justices’ opening conference of September 29. We’ll have one final post tomorrow; included in today’s post are the Second Amendment incorporation petitions out of the Second and Seventh Circuits.
Monday Round-up
As the Justices will hold their first private conference this Tuesday, the Supreme Court press corps turns its focus to the upcoming docket. Tony Mauro writes in the National Law Journal on the dominance of business cases in OT09 : more than half of the 45 docketed cases address business issues.
Mystery of The Premature Docket Number
Here’s a piece of Supreme Court minutiae that has always befuddled me. As most know, the Court’s term officially begins the first Monday in October and ends the day before the first Monday of the next October.