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Nonbarking dogs from the Long Conference

By Kent Scheidegger et al.

Last week the Supreme Court announced that it had granted review of 10 cases, 7 of them criminal, from the "long conference" preceding the opening of the term. Today, the Court issued the opening orders list of the term. As expected, there are no additional grants of review for full briefing and argument. A few cases are sent back to lower courts for reconsideration in light of intervening decisions, and a very long list are simply denied. There are a few cases that were neither granted nor denied, and they presumably are rescheduled to be considered again at another conference. These cases are interesting enough to the high court to be worth a second look. From the cases on SCOTUSblog's Petitions to Watch list, the following criminal and related cases have apparently been relisted: Hust v...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime and Consequences on October 06, 2008 (boomark / email).