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A Midsummer Morning's Orders List

By Kent Scheidegger et al.

The Supreme Court issued one of the orders lists that we typically get during the summer between the June adjournment and the October commencement of the next term. As usual, there is nothing too interesting on it. Rehearings are denied in a bunch of cases the Court did not take for briefing and argument. Lyle Denniston notes at SCOTUSblog that there was no action on pending rehearing petitions in the child rape case, Kennedy v. Louisiana, or the Iraq turn-over cases, Munaf v. Geren and Geren v. Omar. Justice Scalia referred a stay request to the Court, which denied it, in Stewart v. Superior Court, 07A963. This appears to be a civil case, probably domestic relations. Petitioner and real party in interest are both named Stewart. Cal. App...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime and Consequences on July 28, 2008 (boomark / email).