[Future Useless Eater]

Since Hollister's petition was filed Monday the 22nd, and docketed Tuesday the 23rd...

...isn't it likely that one or more Supremes considered Hollister's arguments while deciding Mario's petition on the 23rd?

[Hotlanta Mike]

We’ll see on Monday, when a decision is to be made regarding Mario’s writ. With all of these cases now arriving (and perhaps fortuitously) at SCOTUS round the same time, maybe they will be emboldened to not shirk their responsibility any further. Otherwise a constitutional crisis may be unavoidable.

[AmericanVictory]

Only if they first decided to give leeway in that case to get past the standing issue. The big point about the Hollister case is that in it, contrary to all the others which have been put before SCOTUS, the judge below found that he had "jurisdiction" because of the statute involved (the federal interpleader act) and a finding of jurisdiction concedes, necessarily, standing. If you examine the questions presented in the Kerchner case you will see a concern with standing. By contrast in Hollister the questions presented go directly to a failure to examine the merits as required by a judge whose bias is quite evident.