This Week on the Blog: 8/13/-8/17

This week, we will begin our run-up to the Long Conference by posting several write-ups of noteworthy petitions that will be considered at the Long Conference on September 24. Though we will discuss a few cases each week for the remainder of the summer, our full list of “Petitions to Watch” for the Long Conference will not be posted until late in September.

Additionally, Wednesday is the deadline for amici to file in the Supreme Court on the side of investment bankers in Stoneridge Investment v. Scientific-Atlanta (06-43), a case testing third party liability for securities fraud. The blog thus will be monitoring to see if Solicitor General Paul C. Clement files an amicus brief for the government, or opts to remain on the sidelines.

UPDATE: The Court has extended the time to file the government response in the following case until Sept. 14:
In detainee-related matters, Wednesday is also the deadline for the Solicitor General to file the government’s response in a case testing the authority of the U.S. military to turn over a U.S. citizen being held in Iraq to the Iraqi government to carry out a death penalty following a conviction in an Iraqi court. The case is Munaf v. Geren (06-1666). (The government has until Aug. 24 to decide whether to ask the Supreme Court to review a similar case involving a U.S. citizen, Shawqi Omar, who faces criminal charges by an Iraqi court, but has not yet been tried.)

In another detainee case, pending in the Fourth Circuit Court, lawyers for Ali Saleh Kahlah Al-Marri have until Wednesday to respond to the government’s request for rehearing en banc in a case in which a Circuit panel rejected the President’s authority to order the capture and detention within the U.S.of a civilian foreign national who has established ties to this country. (The Circuit docket is 06-7427).

Finally, you can look forward to a new Academic Round-Up, which David Stras will post sometime early this week.