Question for anyone who knows:
Are these conferences required for the Supreme Court to reject hearing a case?
From my understanding the answer is no.
It seems to me that it is a possible indication that there is interest in hearing this case if they had already had a conference on a similar case. Why would Justice Scalia bring this case to conference if they had already heard one and had no interest in hearing this case at all?
Just so that it wouldn’t get re-filed to another Jusitce?
You said — “It seems to me that it is a possible indication that there is interest in hearing this case if they had already had a conference on a similar case. Why would Justice Scalia bring this case to conference if they had already heard one and had no interest in hearing this case at all?”
Nope, they’re just figuring out how to quickly *dispose* of the coming cases. They know there are more coming and they are figuring out that this is the way to “seemingly” get it heard, but — “Denied!” ... LOL..
They’ve got their strategy down pretty good in the Supreme Court to lay this issue to rest and bury it...
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And then you asked — “Just so that it wouldn’t get re-filed to another Jusitce?”
That sounds like an effective strategy for them to *dump* all these cases in a hurry and to not bug them with more “ring around the rosie” type antics...