The Supreme Court granted Solicitor General D. John Sauer permission to take part in December 2 oral arguments on challenges to assault weapon bans in Cook County, Illinois, and Connecticut. Monday's orders list did not resolve Cutberto Viramontes's bid to leave the Cook County case or State's Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke's mootness argument. Connecticut's ban remains before the justices even if the Cook County matter is later dropped.