Yesterday I noted that there was no ruling on the cert. petition in an interesting judicial speech case, Bauer v. Shepard, which presumably will be put over to the next (or a future) conference. One possibility is that we might be waiting a while to hear about whether or not the Court will take this case. There was another judicial speech case, Siefert v. Alexander, initially on the calendar for February 18. But the Court has now asked for a response to the cert. petition, and extended the time for filing the response until April 1. So the Court might be considering these together, and it might be mid-April before we know whether the Court will take Bauer and Siefert. I continue to think it is pretty likely the Court will take Bauer. And I flagged Siefert as a case that could well interest the Court last June.