and waited a week or two until finally granting cert and saying that they will hear the case says curtis bok has noticed that trend and if i was a betting man i would say that they're probably going to hear the case but at regent university law school where mcdonald graduated in nineteen eighty nine there is less certainty. it might mean to write a defense to that and how it can also mean that there's a few justices who want to grant the petition as others who don't and they're still trying to work out those differences that takes four justices to grant a petition so that's the big number that and the governor needs regent law professor tested by starts as the supreme court taking up any case is a rare thing and he says that they are taking its not as much about the particular facts of that that particular case sometimes it is but often it's about the bigger broader rule of constitutional law they're going to take seventy five cases it needs to be the case is going hat in casper for future cases future developments in the loss that often attacked the cases they're looking for mcdonald's lawy