Emergency Docket 2022-23
The Supreme Court’s emergency docket, also known as the shadow docket, consists of applications seeking immediate action from the court. Unlike the merits docket, these cases are handled on an expedited basis with limited briefing and no oral argument, and the court often resolves them in unsigned orders with little or no explanation. This page shows significant emergency applications that have been filed during the current term.
View applications by category.
| Docket | Case Page | Issue(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 23A241 | Allen v. Caster | Whether the Supreme Court should stay the district court’s application of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act to enjoin Alabama’s 2023 districting plan. |
| 23A231 | Allen v. Milligan | Whether the Supreme Court should stay the district court’s application of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act to enjoin Alabama’s 2023 districting plan. |
| 22A557 | Antonyuk v. Nigrelli | Whether the Supreme Court should vacate the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit's stay of a preliminary injunction designed to limit New York's enforcement of a gun control statute. |
| 22A544 | Arizona v. Mayorkas | Whether the Supreme Court should stay a district court's order requiring the government to terminate the Title 42 immigration policy. |
| 22A724 | Balentine v. Texas | Whether the Supreme Court should stay the execution of John Balentine. |
| 22A424 | Barbee v. Collier | Whether the court should stay the execution of Stephen Barbee. |
| 23A51 | Barber v. Ivey | Whether the Supreme Court should stay the execution of James Edward Barber. |
| 22A949 | Barwick v. DeSantis | Whether the Supreme Court should stay the execution of Darryl Bryan Barwick. |
| 22A788 | Brown v. Texas | Whether the Supreme Court should stay the execution of Arthur Brown Jr. |
| 23A73 | City of Tulsa, Oklahoma v. Hooper | Whether the Supreme Court should stay the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit's mandate that would prevent the City of Tulsa from enforcing violations of municipal ordinances against Indian inhabitants. |
| 22A317 | Cole v. Farris | (1) Whether it violates the Eighth Amendment and this court's decisions in Ford v. Wainwright and Panetti v. Quarterman for a state court to bypass procedural safeguards when there are disputed issues of fact; (2) Whether it violates the Fourteenth Amendment for a warden, who is directly in charge of carrying out the execution, to also assume the role of gatekeeper to the execution competency process; and (3) Whether the state of Oklahoma's procedural framework for determining competency to be executed violates the Eighth Amendment, and the court's decision in Ford v. Wainwright and Panetti v. Quarterman. |
| 22A901 | Danco Laboratories v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine | Whether the Supreme Court should stay the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas's order blocking the Food and Drug Administration's approval of mifepristone. |
| 23A60 | Delaware Department of Insurance v. U.S. | Whether the Supreme Court should stay the order of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit enforcing an Internal Revenue Service summons on the Delaware Department of Insurance for information related to a tax shelter promoter examination. |
| 22A439 | Fairchild v. Farris | Whether the Supreme Court should stay the execution of Richard Fairchild. |
| 22A902 | Food and Drug Administration v. Alliance For Hippocratic Medicine | Whether the Supreme Court should stay the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas's order blocking the Food and Drug Administration's approval of mifepristone. |
| 22A543 | Fratta v. Lumpkin | Whether the Supreme Court should stay the execution of Robert Alan Fratta. |
| 22A603 | Fratta v. Texas | Whether the Supreme Court should stay the execution of Robert Alan Fratta. |
| 22A486 | Fratta v. Texas | Whether the Supreme Court should stay the execution of Robert Alan Fratta. |
| 23A82 | Garland v. Vanderstok | Whether the Supreme Court should stay the judgment of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas baring the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives from enforcing a 2022 rule regulating "ghost guns" as firearms. |
| 22A881 | Gaskin v. Florida | Whether the Supreme Court should stay the execution of Louis Bernard Gaskin. |
| 22A941 | Glossip v. Oklahoma | Whether the Supreme Court should stay the execution of Richard Eugene Glossip. |
| 23A116 | GRACE v. City of Miami, Florida | Whether the Supreme Court should vacate the order of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Cir. that granted a stay pending appeal of the district court's interim remedial redistricting plan. |
| 22A337 | Graham v. Fulton County Special Purpose Grand Jury | Whether the Supreme Court should block a district court’s ruling that ordered Sen. Lindsey Graham to testify before a Georgia grand jury investigating possible election interference. |
| 22A441 | Hamm v. Smith | Whether the court should vacate the stay of execution of Kenneth Eugene Smith. |
| 23A87 | Harrington v. Purdue Pharma L.P. | Whether the Supreme Court should stay the mandate of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit authorizing Purdue Pharma's bankruptcy plan. |
| 22A425 | Hooper v. Shinn | Whether the court should stay the execution of Murray Hooper. |
| 22A414 | Johnson v. Missouri | Whether the court should stay the execution of Kevin Johnson. |
| 22A463 | Johnson v. Missouri | Whether the Supreme Court should stay the execution of Kevin Johnson. |
| 23A35 | Mountain Valley Pipeline, LLC v. The Wilderness Society | Whether the Supreme Court should vacate the orders of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit blocking the completion of the Mountain Valley Pipeline project. |
| 22A948 | National Association for Gun Rights v. City of Naperville | Can the government ban the sale, purchase, and possession of certain semi-automatic firearms and firearm magazines when there is no analogous historical ban as required by D.C. v. Heller and New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n, Inc. v. Bruen? |
| 22A1069 | Owen v. Florida | Whether the Supreme Court should stay the execution of Duane E. Owen. |
| 22A474 | R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company v. Bonta | Whether the Tobacco Control Act expressly preempts state and local laws that prohibit the sale of flavored tobacco products. |
| 22A683 | Ruiz v. Texas | Whether the Supreme Court should stay the execution of Wesley Ruiz. |
| 22A423 | Smith v. Alabama | Whether the court should stay the execution of Kenneth Smith. |
| 22A709 | Taylor v. Vandergriff | Whether the Supreme Court should stay the execution of Leonard Taylor. |
| 22A362 | Trump v. Committee on Ways and Means | Whether the Supreme Court should stay a decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit that held that the House Ways and Means Committee may obtain former President Donald Trump’s tax returns. |
| 22A283 | Trump v. U.S. | Whether the Supreme Court should vacate the portion of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit's stay of a Special Master order that limits the scope of review of documents seized from President Donald Trump's home to those bearing classification markings. |
| 22A350 | Ward v. Thompson | Whether the court should block a subpoena from the Jan. 6 committee seeking the phone records of Kelli Ward, chair of the Arizona Republican Party. |
| 22A800 | West Virginia v. B.P.J. | Whether the Supreme Court should vacate the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit's injunction of a West Virginia law that bans girls who are transgender from participating in girl's sports in school. |
