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Update on Possible Decision Date
This from the scotusblog.com site:
This from the scotusblog.com site:
As the StatPack indicates, there are now ten cases to be decided before the Court recesses for the summer, including three of the highest profile cases of the year - DC v. Heller (Second Amendment), Kennedy v. Louisiana (death penalty for child rape) and Exxon v. Baker (punitive damages over Exxon Valdez oil spill). We wanted to give those readers awaiting these decisions a quick primer on what to expect over the next week.
The timing of opinions. There is only one decision day next week on the Court’s official calendar: Monday, June 23, when the Court’s public session will begin at 10 am eastern. However, as the Court has done for the past two weeks, it’s certain that the Court will sit on one or more additional days later in the week. Based on past practice, if the Court holds one additional opinion day, it will likely be the Thursday (June 26) as it did last Term. If it holds two additional opinion days (which is more likely, given that ten opinions remain), the added days will likely be Wednesday (June 25) and Thursday (as it did in the 2005 Term).
(Of course, the Court isn’t required to finish by June 26, but it has concluded the Term before July every year for the last decade. Monday June 30 is also a possible last day, but is unlikely because the Court internally plans on finishing each Term during the fourth week of June.)
After the jump, I discuss the basics of how we predict which Justices will author which opinions and our current sense on that issue.