The 2026-2027 Supreme Court term officially begins on the first Monday in October.  Toward the end of September, SCOTUS holds a clean-up conference called the "Long Conference," where it considers petitions it didn't have time to dispose of before the justices went on summer break, as well as petitions that accumulated over the summer.  This year, the Long Conference took place yesterday, September 28th.

Early last year, I showed the Duke Center for Firearms Law how to batch-download all the cert petitions and automatically search them for Second Amendment cases.

Before that, they had great difficulty identifying the petitions (the lion's share of petitions filed) filed by petitioners who could not afford the docketing fee (IFP petitions).  IFP petitions account for the lion's share of 2A cert petitions as well.

As a result, its SCOTUS Gun Watch blog is far more complete, and I no longer expect to publish my own lists.

I don't expect there to be any 2A cert petitions granted this week that were distributed to the Long Conference, and although there could be grants in other cases this week, we can expect most of the cert petitions, including the 2A cert petitions, to appear as "Petition Denied" on next Monday's Orders List.

Next Monday's Orders List may or may not list cert petitions that were granted as a result of the Long Conference.  





The Second Amendment Cert Petitions that were Scheduled for the "Long Conference"