Today at the Supreme Court

My last post was made 24 days ago, on March 6, a day when the Court had a conference. As I noted, the most-relisted pending petition at the time was then Smith v. Scott , No. 24-1099, which had been relisted for the 14th time on March 2. As of today, March 30, this petition is still pending and still the most-relisted pending petition, having been relisted for the 17th time today. This means the Court will consider it again at its conference this Thursday, April 2. (Why is this conference not happening this Friday, when conferences usually happen, since there is no federal holiday on Friday? Your guess is as good as mine.) In my last post, I also noted that the second most-relisted pending petition was Reed v. Goertz , No. 24-1268. As I noted, it was relisted for the 13th time on March 2. Since then, it was relisted just one more time on March 16, before being denied on March 23, after a grand total of 14 relists. As expected given how long the delay was in this denial, three justices ...

The Court had a private conference today. A quick docket search indicates a total of 92 petitions were distributed for that conference (52 on the regular docket and 40 on the IFP docket). So this seems to mean that 92 is the maximum number of petitions the Court could dispose of in the order list we know it will issue next Monday. As has been the case for some time now, the most-relisted petition remains Smith v. Scott , No. 24-1099. It was relisted for the 14th time on March 2, this past Monday. In a close second is the same petition that has been in second place for some time now (including when I made my last post ): Reed v. Goertz , No. 24-1268. It was relisted for the 13th time on March 2. No other pending petition has been relisted more than 10 times. In third place, it's a four-way tie between the following petitions, each of which has been relisted 8 times, most recently on Monday for the conference that happened today: Foote v. Ludlow School Committee , No. 25-77. Lower co...