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They took this case and treated it as if it were a cert petition, which means they were going to hear it on the merits, and they issued a per curiam decision, meaning a decision without giving any author.

We got to Memorial Day with eight cert grants for next year.

Lithwick: By Memorial Day, how many cert grants do we usually have, just for point of comparison?

"To my mind it looks like a dead cert," he said.

The court granted cert to the case on Wednesday, after twiddling its thumbs for 16 days, and it scheduled oral arguments for April 22.