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SCOTUS getting busy (though I doubt summer vacations are at risk)

By Douglas A. Berman

Over at SCOTUSblog, Jason Harrow has this new post spotlighting that the Justices appear to be on pace for taking more cases next Term than in recent years.  Here are snippets:[T]he rate that the Court is granting cases [is] far higher in 2008 than it???s been in recent memory. Consider that since returning from Winter Recess on January 4, the Court has granted 31 cases in the first two-and-half-months of the year. If the Court continued on this pace ??? admittedly, this is perhaps an unrealistic assumption ??? they would hear roughly 150 cases next Term.  That number is not unprecedented, as the modern record for oral arguments was set in the 1983 Term, when the Court heard 159 cases according to Oyez.org.  But since then, the total cases heard each term has steadily declined, reaching the nadir with this term???s 70 arguments, a decline of more than 50% in 25 years...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on March 17, 2008 (boomark / email).