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SCOTUS Sudoku Update

By Kent Scheidegger et al.

With yesterday's decision in Washington State Grange and today's decision in Snyder, we return once again to our SCOTUS sudoku puzzle, trying to figure out who is writing the remaining cases. The premise of SCOTUS sudoku is that no justice will be assigned a second opinion from a sitting while any other justice has not written any. This is generally true, as illustrated on page 18 of SCOTUSblog's final StatPack from last term. From the inferred identity of the author, we then try to get an inkling of the result. All of this is rank speculation, but it's fun. Two cases remain from the October sitting: United States v. Santos on the federal money laundering statute and Medellin v. Texas on the Vienna Convention and the International Court of Justice decision...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime and Consequences on March 19, 2008 (boomark / email).