Federal Judiciary

The Week Ahead

By Akin Gump Supreme Court Practice Group

No oral arguments are scheduled and no non-capital orders are expected to be issued from the Court this week.

On Friday, the Justices are scheduled to hold a private conference, orders from which are expected to be released the following Monday. (Click here to view our list of petitions to watch at Friday’s conference.)

Petitioners’ merits briefs are due Wednesday in Crawford v. Metropolitan Government of Nashville (06-1595) and Summers, et al. v. Earth Island Institute, et al. (07-463), and Thursday in Arizona v. Gant (07-542). No respondents’ merits briefs are due this week.

(Links above direct to case pages on SCOTUSwiki.)

Full post as published by SCOTUSBLOG on April 06, 2008 (boomark / email).