The Supreme Court granted cert today in 5th Cir. case of Setser v. United States, No. 10-7387

The Supreme Court granted cert today in Setser v. United States, No.
10-7387, to decide whether a district court has the authority to order a
federal sentence to run consecutive to an anticipated, but not-yet-imposed,
state sentence. Following longstanding precedent, the Fifth Circuit held
that 18 USC 3584 authorizes district courts to order a federal sentence to
run consecutively to an undischarged state sentence