McKensley v. United States
Headline: Court refuses rehearing in dozens of docketed matters, denying requests for additional review and leaving the cited decisions and docketed citations as the current Supreme Court action on those cases.
Holding: The Court denied petitions for rehearing in the listed cases, declining additional Supreme Court review of those matters.
- Ends Supreme Court rehearing requests for the listed cases.
- Leaves the existing cited decisions and citations operative for now.
Summary
Background
This document lists many docket numbers and United States Reports citations across volumes 516 and 517 and related pages, followed by a single operative statement: "Petitions for rehearing denied." The text names a long series of individual docket entries and citation references, indicating multiple separate matters were considered together for the procedural step of rehearing.
Reasoning
The core question presented in this order was whether the Court would grant rehearing — that is, agree to revisit and reconsider its earlier decisions or orders in the listed matters. The text provided contains only the administrative resolution: the Court denied the petitions for rehearing. The order as provided does not include a majority opinion, a written explanation of legal reasoning, or separate concurrences or dissents; it is a procedural ruling denying further Supreme Court review at this stage.
Real world impact
The practical effect is procedural: the parties who asked the Court to rehear these cases were refused further review by the Court in this order. As a result, the prior citations and decisions referenced in the listing remain the operative Supreme Court entries for these matters unless some later action is taken. Because the order is a denial without an accompanying merits opinion, it does not itself announce new legal rules or explain changes to the law.
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