South Carolina v. Doe
Application for stay pending appeal is denied on Sept. 10, 2025. Justices Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch would grant the application.
Issue: Whether the Supreme Court should stay a federal appeals court's injunction that requires a public school in the state to allow a transgender student to use the boys' bathroom while challenging a state law that requires students to use bathrooms based on their biological sex at birth.
SCOTUSblog Coverage
- The strange case of the superfluous sentence (Jeffrey Kahn and Stephen Wermiel, September 25, 2025)
- Supreme Court leaves order in place allowing transgender student to use boys’ bathroom (Amy Howe, September 10, 2025)
- Lawyers ask Supreme Court to allow transgender boy to use boys’ bathroom (Amy Howe, September 5, 2025)
- Transgender student’s bathroom case comes to the Supreme Court on the emergency docket (Amy Howe, August 28, 2025)
| Date | Proceedings and Orders |
|---|---|
| 08/26/2025 | Application (25A234) for a stay and application for leave to file the application and appendix under seal with redacted copies for the public record, submitted to The Chief Justice. |
| 08/29/2025 | Response to application (25A234) requested by The Chief Justice, due by 4 p.m. (EDT) on September 5, 2025. |
| 08/29/2025 | Brief amici curiae of Indiana, et al. filed. |
| 09/05/2025 | Response to application from respondent John Doe filed. |
| 09/10/2025 | Application (25A234) referred to the Court. |
| 09/10/2025 | Application (25A234) for a stay of injunction pending appeal presented to The Chief Justice and by him referred to the Court is denied. The denial of the application is not a ruling on the merits of the legal issues presented in the litigation. Rather, it is based on the standards applicable for obtaining emergency relief from this Court. The motion for leave to file under seal with redacted copies for the public record is granted. Justice Thomas, Justice Alito, and Justice Gorsuch would grant the application. |