More Delay on Grants Pass

See earlier posts here, here and here. This case involves a challenge to a Ninth Circuit decision that severely inhibits cities’ ability to do anything about people camping on its streets and in its parks. The petition to review the case is supported by two dozen amici curiae from across the political spectrum.

Today the Court granted the plaintiffs an extension to December 6 to file their opposition, despite their initial waiver of the right to file at all. That means that the conference of January 5, 2024, is the first realistic date for the Court to consider whether to take up the case.

Cases granted in January can still be heard and decided in the same term, but a few “relistings” of the case may put it off to next term.

It’s high time that the high court cracked down of the misuse of waivers of the right to respond as a delaying tactic.