US Supreme Court grants cert on seven new cases, none of which directly involve criminal law issues
The US Supreme Court, which is expected to finish issuing its final rulings of the current Term in the coming days, issued this new order list this morning. The order list starts with eight GVRs, mostly as a follow-up to recent civil rulings. (I expect in some additional forthcoming order lists we will be getting quite a number of GVRs following up all the recent SCOTUS criminal case action of the past couple weeks.)
The Supreme Court’s latest order list has seven new certiorari grants, though it appears from a quick scan that none of them involve criminal law issues. Though I am always bummed when the Justices do not add new criminal law cases to the SCOTUS docket, I am now going to be inclined to always view that reality as a reinforcement of my theory that the more conservative current Justices are somewhat fearful about where their originalist inclinations might take them in the constitutitional criminal procedure cases that used to be a mainstay of the Court’s docket. (I mused at some length on this front in this recent post.)
By my count from this SCOTUSblog list, the Supeme Court now has granted cert in 23 cases for its next Term, and it seems only three of those cases are criminal cases. Glossip, a high-profile capital case, seems sure to get a lot of attention when the start of the new Term approaches, and maybe a lot more criminal cases will be added to the Court’s docket in the weeks and months to come. But, based on current patterns, I fear the next SCOTUS Term could be quite the snoozer for criminal law fans.
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