Amy Howe

Mar 26 2018

No new grants today

This morning the Supreme Court issued orders from the justices’ private conference last week. The court did not add any new cases to its merits docket for next term, nor did it call for the views of the U.S. solicitor general in any cases.

Today’s order list may have been most noteworthy for what it did not contain: an order in Azar v. Garza, in which the federal government has asked the Supreme Court to nullify a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit that cleared the way for a pregnant undocumented teenager to obtain an abortion. The justices considered the case at several conferences earlier this year before asking the lower courts to send them the record in the case in late February. Since receiving the record, the justices have considered the case at two more conferences without acting on it. Although there is no way to know for sure at this point, the request for the lower-court record could mean that someone on the court is writing something regarding the case – either a summary reversal or (perhaps more likely) a dissent from the denial of review.

The justices will meet again for another private conference on Thursday, March 29. We would expect orders from that conference on Monday, April 2, at 9:30 a.m.

This post was also published on SCOTUSblog.

Amy L Howe
Until September 2016, Amy served as the editor and reporter for SCOTUSblog, a blog devoted to coverage of the Supreme Court of the United States; she continues to serve as an independent contractor and reporter for SCOTUSblog. Before turning to full-time blogging, she served as counsel in over two dozen merits cases at the Supreme Court and argued two cases there. From 2004 until 2011, she co-taught Supreme Court litigation at Stanford Law School; from 2005 until 2013, she co-taught a similar class at Harvard Law School. She has also served as an adjunct professor at American University’s Washington College of Law and Vanderbilt Law School. Amy is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and holds a master’s degree in Arab Studies and a law degree from Georgetown University.
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