New Jersey Transit Corporation v. Colt
Consolidated with:
Issues: Whether the New Jersey Transit Corporation is an arm of the State of New Jersey for interstate sovereign immunity purposes.
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| Date | Proceedings and Orders |
|---|---|
| 02/14/2025 | Application (24A797) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from February 23, 2025 to March 25, 2025, submitted to Justice Sotomayor. |
| 02/21/2025 | Application (24A797) granted by Justice Sotomayor extending the time to file until March 25, 2025. |
| 03/12/2025 | Application (24A797) to extend further the time from March 25, 2025 to April 24, 2025, submitted to Justice Sotomayor. |
| 03/21/2025 | Application (24A797) granted by Justice Sotomayor extending the time to file until April 24, 2025. |
| 04/24/2025 | Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due May 28, 2025) |
| 05/27/2025 | Brief of respondents Jeffrey Colt, et al. in opposition filed. |
| 06/10/2025 | DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 6/26/2025. |
| 06/10/2025 | Reply of petitioners New Jersey Transit Corporation, et al. filed. (Distributed) |
| 07/03/2025 | Petition GRANTED and consolidated with No. 24-1021, limited to the following question: Whether the New Jersey Transit Corporation is an arm of the State of New Jersey for interstate sovereign immunity purposes. A total of one hour is allotted for oral argument. |
| 07/03/2025 | Because the Court has consolidated these cases for briefing and oral argument, future filings and activity in the cases will now be reflected on the docket of No. 24-1021. Subsequent filings in these cases must therefore be submitted through the electronic filing system in No. 24-1021. Each document submitted in connection with one or more of these cases must include on its cover the case number and caption for each case in which the filing is intended to be submitted. Where a filing is submitted in fewer than all of the cases, the docket entry will reflect the case number(s) in which the filing is submitted; a document filed in all of the consolidated cases will be noted as “VIDED.” |
| 09/11/2025 | Application (25A287) for a stay, submitted to Justice Sotomayor. |
| 09/12/2025 | Order entered by Justice Sotomayor: Upon consideration of the application of counsel for the applicants, it is ordered that the trial in the Supreme Court of the State of New York, New York County, Index No. 158309/2017, is hereby stayed pending further order of Justice Sotomayor or of the Court. |
| 09/12/2025 | Response to application from respondent Jeffrey Colt and Betsy Tsai filed. |
| 09/12/2025 | Reply of applicant New Jersey Transit Corporation, NJ Transit Bus Operations, Inc., and Ana Hernandez filed. |
| 09/19/2025 | Application (25A287) referred to the Court. |
| 09/19/2025 | Application (25A287) for stay presented to Justice Sotomayor and by her referred to the Court is granted. The Court has already granted certiorari on the sovereign immunity issue decided below, and the pending damages trial before the Supreme Court of the State of New York would be barred if New Jersey Transit Corporation were entitled to sovereign immunity from suit. Respondents, on the other hand, identify no tangible irreparable harm they would face if the trial were delated until after this Court decides the pending case. The trial scheduled for September 15, 2025, in the Supreme Court of the State of New York, New York County, is therefore stayed pending the issuance of the mandate of this Court in NJ Transit Corp., et al. v. Colt, Jeffrey, et al., case No. 24-1113, and Galette, Cedric v. NJ Transit Corp., case No. 24-1021. |