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Any provocative predictions for the big SCOTUS week?

By Douglas A. Berman

It is widely expect that the Supreme Court will issue its final 10 opinions of the term this week, with some coming this morning and the rest likely handed down later in the week.  Of course, SCOTUSblog is the best place to follow all the action The two biggest cases I am looking forward to seeing are the Kennedy child rape case (archive here) and the Heller Second Amendment case (archive here).  But a number of other cases due this week could also be sleepers for sentencing fans.  For example, the big Exxon case dealing with punitive damages might have some interesting punishment and due process dicta. Other than predicting that Justice Anthony Kennedy will re-emerge as a swing Justice and that a few other Justices may say some unexpected things (like Justice Scalia did last week), I have no profound predictions to make going into the week...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on June 23, 2008 (boomark / email).