The Supreme Court’s interim relief docket, also known as the emergency docket or the shadow docket, consists of applications seeking immediate action from the court. These cases are handled on an ...

The origins of the Supreme Court’s secretive “shadow docket” have been revealed, providing a glimpse into how the justices began bypassing traditional procedures to issue rulings. A new bombshell ...

Last week, I recorded a We the People podcast episode for the National Constitution Center discussing the increased volume of applications and orders on the Supreme Court's interim docket, aka the ...

Yesterday evening, as expected, the Supreme Court granted mifepristone manufacturers' requests for a stay of an order of the ...

When many have a court date in a family law matter, they do not realize that they are on a docket. Many do not even understand what a docket it or why it matters? Obviously, in different states and ...

The New York Times on Saturday published a series of Supreme Court internal memos that amount, in hindsight, to a major milestone in the decline of American democracy. The closely held memos show how ...

Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. By now, you’ve probably heard a great deal about the Supreme Court’s interim relief docket, also known as the emergency or ...

Over the past decade, the Supreme Court has increasingly relied on its emergency docket, called the shadow docket.