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) |
|---|---|---|
| 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. |
| 22A788 | Brown v. Texas | Whether the Supreme Court should stay the execution of Arthur Brown Jr. |
| 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. |
| 22A439 | Fairchild v. Farris | Whether the Supreme Court should stay the execution of Richard Fairchild. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
