The Supreme Court’s website has a new page, “Matters Scheduled for Conference.” During the afternoon before a court conference (held on most Wednesdays in non-oral argument weeks (see here)), the court will post on that page an alphabetical list of cases and other matters the court is likely to rule on the following day. See here for the first public list, showing this week’s conference agenda.
The court has been emailing a conference list to the media on the day before a conference, but the email has included the disclaimer that the list was for “convenience only” and was “not meant for publication.”
The Supreme Court joins the U.S. Supreme Court in making publicly available its conference schedule. The high court doesn’t publish a list, but instead notes on individual case online dockets that a certain matter has been “distributed” for a particular day’s conference. It’s normally more than one day’s notice, and notice is often given weeks in advance.
Ben Shatz, appellate lawyer and author of the Southern California Appellate News blog, noticed the new webpage before the first list was even posted on it.
