Seegars v Gonzalez: Moving forward at the Supreme Court

There are some new events in Seegars v Gonzalez since I was last sufficiently unbusy to check. The last we heard, the deadline to respond to the Seegars petition for certiorari from the Supreme Court had been set for November 21st, 2005. Checking the Supreme Court docket today, I discovered that an order to extend the deadline again (this time to December 21st of 2005) had been issued on November 18th. So, that extended the time we had to wait by about a month. The holdup appears to have been the Department of Justice's representation, as they filed their response on December 21st and the Mayor of Washington, DC filed a waiver of right to respond.

Now, the deadline is past and all responses are in. A conference has been scheduled to hear the petition for certiorari (NOT the case itself, just deciding whether or not to hear the case) on January 20th. That bit of news was just issed on Jan 4th, so I'm not that far behind on my coverage.

We're not likely to see any more events until that conference, but things will heat up shortly thereafter.

Posted on 2006-01-08 19:08:37.0 by matthew@triggerfinger.org

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