Sentences with phrase «cert grant»

I spoke too soon when I said here that the ACCA cases were the only notable sentencing cases in the big group of SCOTUS cert grants today.

UPDATE: Howard Bashman has a nice round - up here of media coverage of the Baze cert grant, including links to a number of local articles examining the possible local impact of the case.

UPDATE: Lyle Denniston has this lengthy post about this notable cert grant titled «Another revolution on sentencing?».

Denniston's post, which was written before the Supreme Court's cert grant in Stoneridge, suggested that the 5th Circuit's decision, which aligned with the 8th Circuit, may have minimized the conflict, particularly because the 9th Circuit decision had become moot.

I know most bloggers today are consumed with the June avalanche of Supreme Court opinions and cert grants, but something interesting is afoot in the corporate law world (and more importantly the actual world).

Publications covering the cert grant include SCOTUSblog, Mother Jones, the Washington Post and the New York Times.

Reuters, the New York Times, Courthouse News Service and Bloomberg News covered the cert grant.

UPDATE: In response to my inquiry, Lyle Denniston has confirmed for me that most of the cert grants so far involve criminal cases.

All this amicus support, together with the fact that former SG (and SCOTUS magician) Paul Clement is representing Rubashkin before the High Court, surely raises significantly the odds of a cert grant.

I know that petitions for cert are rarely granted by SCOTUS but methinks that whenever a case presents itself which gives SCOTUS an opportunity to slap down the CAFC (yet again), the odds for a cert grant go up exponentially.

Sentencing fans have their SCOTUS cups running over this morning: in addition to the cert grants on a pair of cases dealing with the application of the statutory crack sentences in Dorsey and Hill (basics here), the Supreme Court also grant cert on a long - simmering Apprendi issue: namely whether standard of proof jury trial rights set forth in Apprendi and its progeny apply to the imposition of criminal fines.