The U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari in six cases today, all civil. SCOTUSblog has the details. Criminal cases that were on the conference list for today are likely either denied (to be announced Tuesday) or "relisted" to be considered again at a later conference.

Absent extraordinary circumstances, the docket for this term is set. The next scheduled conference is February 15, and cases taken then will be argued next fall.

Update: The official orders list is now available here. Jason Harrow notes at SCOTUSblog that the Ninth Circuit's share of the Supreme Court docket is down a little this term, 17% of the docket instead of 20%. Possibly that court's increased willingness to correct rogue panel decisions by taking them en banc, noted previously here, has something to do with that.