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A few SCOTUS scouting pieces to gear up for the new season

By Douglas A. Berman

The new SCOTUS season is about to kick into high gear, with the Justices likely to announce a bunch of new cert grants this coming week and with a full slate of arguments to start the following week.  For sentencing fans, there are a lot of notable cases to watch in the cert pool and already on the Court's docket.  Of course, SCOTUSblog is the place to go for cert scouting, as evidenced by these three recent Petitions to Watch posts: Conference of September 29, 2009 (Part I) Conference of September 29, 2009 (Part II) Conference of September 29, 2009 (Part III) In addition, I enjoyed this Term preview piece in the National Law Journal by Marcia Coyle, which is headlined "High Court Justices to Take Up Lawyer Ethics, Errors: Six cases on the calendar will have direct consequences for the practice of law...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on September 27, 2009 (boomark / email).