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Author: Ben Winograd

By on Jan 8, 2009 at 12:00 am

No oral arguments are scheduled and no non-capital orders are expected to be issued from the Court today. The Justices will next convene for their private conference on Friday. Oral arguments will resume January 12....

By on Jan 7, 2009 at 12:00 am

No oral arguments are scheduled and no non-capital orders are expected to be issued from the Court today. The Justices will next convene for their private conference on Friday. Oral arguments will resume January 12....

By on Jan 6, 2009 at 12:00 am

No oral arguments are scheduled and no non-capital orders are expected to be issued from the Court today. The Justices will next convene for their private conference on Friday. Oral arguments will resume January 12....

By on Jan 5, 2009 at 5:28 pm
This edition of "Petitions to Watch" features cases up for consideration at the Justices' private conference on January 16. As always, the list contains the petitions on the Court's paid docket that Tom has deemed to have a reasonable chance of being granted. (Thanks to Max Schwartz for assistance in compiling this week's list.) To access previous editions of Petitions to Watch, including the list for the upcoming conference of January 9, visit our archives on SCOTUSwiki. Going forward, to avoid any appearance of handicapping our own petitions, this feature will separately list any cases in which lawyers from Akin Gump or Howe & Russell represent the lead parties, regardless of Tom's opinion as to their likelihood of being granted. To see the full list of petitions on our watch list, continue reading after the jump.

By on Jan 5, 2009 at 11:06 am
UPDATE: President-Elect Obama has officially announced the nomination of Kagan along with three other posts at the Department of Justice. The text of the announcement is available here. ____________ According to an email sent this morning to students and faculty at Harvard Law School, incoming President Barack Obama intends to nominate Dean Elena Kagan as Solicitor General. Kagan, 48, clerked for Justice Thurgood Marshall during the October 1987 term and later taught at the University of Chicago School of Law at the same time as Obama.  She served in the Clinton White House from 1995 to 1999, and, after moving to Harvard Law School, was named Dean in 2003. Kagan has also been mentioned as a potential Supreme Court nominee under a Democratic adminsitration (see here). Kagan has not previously argued before the Supreme Court. The text of the email appears after the jump.

By on Jan 5, 2009 at 12:00 am

No oral arguments are scheduled and no non-capital orders are expected to be issued from the Court today. The Justices will next convene for their private conference on Friday. Oral arguments will resume January 12....

By on Jan 4, 2009 at 12:00 am

No oral arguments are scheduled at the Court this week. The Justices will hold a private conference on Friday, orders from which could be released that afternoon. To view our list of petition's to watch at Friday's conference, click here. The petitioner's merits brief is due Friday...

By on Dec 28, 2008 at 12:00 am

No oral arguments are scheduled and no non-capital orders are expected to be issued from the Court this week. The Justices will next convene for their private conference on January 9. Oral arguments will resume January 12. Merits briefs are due for the petitioners on Monday...

By on Dec 22, 2008 at 5:30 pm
This edition of "Petitions to Watch" features cases up for consideration at the Justices' private conference on January 9. As always, the list contains the petitions on the Court's paid docket that Tom has deemed to have a reasonable chance of being granted. (Thanks to Kristina Moore for assistance in collecting the filings for the list.) To access previous editions of Petitions to Watch, visit our archives on SCOTUSwiki. Issues on our current list include the extent of Iraq's sovereign immunity in federal court, allegations of copyright infringement stemming from on-demand television services, and the constitutionality of the Child Online Protection Act and Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act. For the full list of petitions, continue reading after the jump.

By on Dec 21, 2008 at 12:00 am

No oral arguments are scheduled and no non-capital orders are expected to be issued from the Court this week. The Justices will next convene for their private conference on January 9. Oral arguments will resume January 12. Merits briefs for the petitioner are due Monday in...