Summer orders list released
on Jul 30, 2007 at 10:02 am
UPDATE: The Orders Lists can be found here.
The Supreme Court on Monday issued the first of its summer Orders Lists, consisting mainly of denials of rehearing. The only argued case denied rehearing was Schriro v. Landrigan (05-1575). On May 14 by a 5-4 vote, the Court ruled that a death row inmate in Arizona, Jeffrey Landrigan, was not entitled to an evidentiary hearing on his claim that his lawyer was ineffective in failing to put on mitigating evidence at the capital sentencing proceeding, even though Landrigan had objected to putting on such evidence.
Thus, the Court took no action on rehearing pleas in Hamdan v. Gates (06-1169), a challenge to the war crimes military commissions, and Rita v. U.S. (06-5754), a Sentencing Guidelines case.
The Court will have additional summer orders on Aug. 20 and 31.
