Over the years, the Supreme Court has sent mixed signals about whether its emergency docket orders carry precedential weight.

The critics on and off the Court are silent about an emergency-docket ruling they like.

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 ...

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

Justice Sonia Sotomayor in a Thursday speech at the University of Alabama School of Law said the Trump administration’s increase in emergency appeals is “unprecedented in the court’s history.” The ...

Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. This page shows significant applications that have been filed during the term. The Supreme Court’s interim relief docket, also ...

A federal judge pressed Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson on how lower courts are supposed to interpret the Supreme Court’s ...

High-profile legal matters are regularly being fought in the courtroom and the court of public opinion. Federal indictments ...

In fast-track proceedings across the country, the Biden administration has been quietly ordering the deportation of thousands of asylum seekers, most of whom never get their day in court. Take, for ...

Chief Justice John Roberts turned heads this week when he criticized how the Supreme Court’s conservatives used the emergency docket, referred to by some as the shadow docket. The shadow docket is ...