SCOTUS Granted A Petition On July 20 That Was Conferenced On June 29

This posture is very unusual. | 7.20.2026 5:37 PM Over the Summer, the Supreme Court will grant miscellaneous orders as needed for individual cases. And usually, towards the end of July and the end of August, the Court issues a formal orders list. Most of the entries are denials of rehearing or orders in pending cases. But today's order list had a surprise entry: a cert grant! 25-246 JOUPPI, KENNETH J. V. ALASKA The petition for a writ of certiorari is granted. The question presented is "whether, in determining whether a fine contravenes the Excessive Fines Clause, courts may consider the gravity of the underlying offense purely in the abstract or should consider the gravity of the specific defendant's wrongdoing." This case has an unusual posture. The cert petition was filed in August 202