Interim Docket
The Supreme Court’s interim relief docket, also known as the emergency docket or shadow docket, consists of applications seeking immediate action from the court. These cases are handled on an expedited basis with limited briefing and typically (though not always) no oral argument, and the court often resolves them in unsigned orders with little or no explanation (though there may be concurrences or dissents). This page shows significant applications filed during the October 2024 term.
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Decided applications (80)
| Docket | Case Page | Issue(s) | Decision |
|---|---|---|---|
| 24a1218 | Whether the Supreme Court should stay an appeals court mandate certifying petitioner's extradition to Ecuador to stand trial for a charge of sexual abuse. | Emergency application to recall and stay a district court order denied by Justice Sotomayor on July 15, 2025. | |
| 24a1203 | Whether the Supreme Court should stay a district court order requiring the government to reinstate Department of Education employees fired as part of a reduction in force. | Application for stay is granted on July 14, 2025. Justice Sotomayor wrote a dissenting opinion, joined by Justices Kagan and Jackson. | |
| 24a1269 | Whether the Supreme Court should stay the district court's preliminary injunction preventing Florida from enforcing SB 4-C, a law that criminalizes the entry into and presence within Florida of those who have illegally entered the United States. | Emergency application for stay pending appeal is denied on July 9, 2025. | |
| 24a1174 | Whether the Supreme Court should stay the district court's nationwide injunction barring the executive branch from formulating and implementing plans to initiate large-scale reductions of the federal workforce. | Application for stay is granted on July 8, 2025. Justice Sotomayor concurred in the grant of the stay. Justice Jackson dissented. | |
| 24a1285 | Whether to stay the mandate issued by the King County Superior Court of Washington and affirmed by the Washington State Court of Appeals that requires John Does — four former and current Seattle police officers who attended President Donald Trump’s “Stop the Steal” rally on Jan. 6, 2021 — to refile their lawsuit regarding public record requests under their true names. | Emergency application for stay of mandate is denied by Justice Kagan on July 8, 2025. | |
| 24a884 | Whether the Supreme Court should stay the district courts' nationwide preliminary injunctions on the Trump administration’s Jan. 20 executive order ending birthright citizenship except as to the individual plaintiffs and identified members of the organizational plaintiffs or states. | Application for partial stay granted | |
| 24a1153 | Whether the Supreme Court should stay a district court order preventing DHS from removing non-citizens to a country not specifically identified in their removal order unless DHS assesses any potential claims such persons may have under the Convention Against Torture. | Application for stay is granted on June 23, 2025. Justice Sotomayor filed a dissenting opinion, joined by Justices Kagan and Jackson. The court granted a motion for clarification on July 3, 2025. Justice Kagan filed a concurring opinion. Justice Sotomayor filed a dissenting opinion, joined by Justice Jackson. | |
| 24a1154 | Whether the Supreme Court should stay a circuit court's mandate associated with its judgment that 11 U.S.C. § 524 divests a bankruptcy court's authority. | Application for stay is denied by Justice Alito on June 9, 2025. | |
| 24a1063 | Whether the Supreme Court should stay the district court's injunction blocking Department of Government Efficiency team members and affiliates from accessing Social Security Administration record systems. | Application for stay is granted on June 6, 2025. Justice Kagan would deny the application. Justice Jackson filed a dissenting opinion, joined by Justice Sotomayor. | |
| 24a1122 | Whether the Supreme Court should stay the district court's orders permitting discovery of certain DOGE materials pursuant to FOIA. | Application for stay granted on June 6, 2025. Justices Kagan, Sotomayor, and Jackson would deny the application. | |
| 24a1079 | Whether the Supreme Court should stay the district court's order holding that the Secretary of Homeland Security lacked authority to revoke the categorical grant of parole to 532,000 non-citizens from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela, without providing individualized, case-by-case consideration for each person. | Application for stay is granted on May 30, 2025. Justice Jackson filed a dissent, in which Justice Sotomayor joined. | |
| 24a1106 | Whether the Supreme Court should stay the district court's nationwide injunction barring the executive branch from formulating and implementing plans to initiate large-scale reductions of the federal workforce. | Application for stay is withdrawn. | |
| 24a966 | Whether the Supreme Court should stay the district court's orders reinstating Gwynne Wilcox and Cathy Harris to the National Labor Relations Board and Merit Systems Protection Board. | Application for stay is granted on May 22, 2025. Justices Kagan, Sotomayor, and Jackson dissent. | |
| 24a1051 | Whether the Supreme Court should grant an injunction to restore Maine State Representative Laurel Libby's right to vote in the Maine House after she was censured for a social media post criticizing the state's policy of allowing transgender athletes to participate in girls sports. | Emergency application for injunction is granted on May 20, 2025. Justices Sotomayor and Jackson would have denied the injunction. | |
| 24a1059 | Whether the Supreme Court should stay the district court's order barring the Secretary of Homeland Security from terminating a portion of the Temporary Protected Status designations for Venezuelan nationals. | Application for stay is granted on May 19, 2025. Justice Jackson would deny the application. | |
| 24a1007 | Whether the Supreme Court should stay the removal of a proposed class of Venezuelan men in immigration custody and preserve the status quo for individuals challenging their removal under the Alien Enemies Act in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas. | Application for stay is granted on May 16, 2025. The judgment of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit is vacated and the case is remanded with instruction. Justice Kavanaugh filed a concurring opinion. Justice Alito filed a dissent, joined by Justice Thomas. | |
| 24a1030 | Whether the Supreme Court should stay the district court's injunction blocking the Department of Defense from enforcing its policy which generally disqualifies from military service individuals who have gender dysphoria or have undergone medical interventions for gender dysphoria. | Application for stay is granted on May 6, 2025. Justices Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson would deny the application. | |
| 24a1031 | Whether the Supreme Court should stay the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit's denial of Rachel Cherwitz and Nicole Daedone's mandamus petition to block the dissemination of stolen privileged corporate documents at their May 5 trial. | Emergency application for stay is denied on April 29, 2025. | |
| 24a989 | Whether the Supreme Court should grant an emergency stay of removal pending disposition of a forthcoming petition for writ of certiorari regarding Fabian Lagunas-Espinoza and his family, who fled cartel violence in Mexico. | Emergency application for stay of removal denied on April 17, 2025 | |
| 24a949 | Whether the Supreme Court should vacate U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis’s order to return Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia to the United States. | Emergency application to vacate injunction is granted in part and denied in part. The deadline in the challenged order is no longer effective. The rest of the district court’s order remains in effect but requires clarification on remand. | |
| 24a904 | Whether the Supreme Court should stay the district court's injunction ordering six departments and agencies to immediately offer reinstatement to over 16,000 employees who were laid off. | Emergency application for stay is granted on April 8, 2025. Justice Sotomayor and Jackson would deny the application. | |
| 24a852 | Whether the Supreme Court should stay Tahawwur Rana's extradition and surrender to India, where there are substantial grounds to believe he would be in danger of being subject to torture. | Emergency application for a certificate of appealability is denied on March 31, 2025. | |
| 24a931 | Whether the Supreme Court should vacate the district court's order blocking the Trump administration from summary removal under the Alien Enemies Act. | Application to vacate order is granted on April 7, 2025. Justices Sotomayor, Kagan, Barrett, and Jackson dissenting. | |
| 24a910 | Whether the Supreme Court should vacate the district court's March 10 order which requires the government to immediately reinstate millions of dollars in federal grants that had been terminated. | Application to vacate order is granted on April 4, 2025. The chief justice would deny the application. Justice Kagan dissents. Justice Jackson dissents, joined by Justice Sotomayor. | |
| 24a921 | Whether the Supreme Court should issue an injunction to block New York"s Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program Amendment, which permanently extinguishes the contracts of hundreds of businesses on April 1, as a violation of the takings and contracts clauses of the Constitution. | Emergency application for injunction is denied on March 31, 2025. | |
| 24a808 | Whether the Supreme Court should stay the lower court's judgment to prevent the expedited proceedings from going forward. | Emergency application for stay is denied on March 14, 2025. | |
| 24a790 | Whether the Supreme Court should vacate the temporary restraining order issued by the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia restoring Hampton Dellinger to office as head of the Office of Special Counsel from which the president had removed him. | Emergency application to vacate order is denied as moot. | |
| 24a831 | Whether the Supreme Court should vacate the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia's order requiring the executive branch to pay nearly $2 billion to nonprofits and businesses that receive federal foreign-assistance funding for reimbursements of contracts and grants for work completed before Feb. 13, 2025. | Application to vacate order is denied on March 5, 2025. Justice Alito filed a dissenting opinion, in which Justices Thomas, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh joined. | |
| 24a759 | Whether the Supreme Court should grant a stay of judgment. | Emergency application for stay is denied on Feb. 13, 2025. | |
| 24a712 | Whether the Supreme Court should stay the mandate of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit ordering a second trial while refusing to address a preserved sufficiency challenge on remand in light of Ciminelli v. United States. | Emergency application for stay of mandate is denied on Feb. 3, 2025. | |
| 24a724 | Whether the Supreme Court should stay the Food and Drug Administration"s marketing denial order with respect to Premarket Tobacco Product Application. | Emergency application for stay is denied on Jan. 31, 2025. | |
| 24a653 | Whether the court should stay the district court's universal injunction enjoining the Corporate Transparency Act -- the 2021 anti-money-laundering law that requires companies to report identifying information about their owners. | Emergency application for stay is granted on Jan. 23, 2025. Justice Gorsuch filed a concurrence. Justice Jackson filed a dissent. | |
| 24a670 | Whether the Supreme Court should issue an injunction to stop California from enforcing its program of professional discipline for licensed physicians" viewpoint speech on COVID-19. | Emergency application for injunction is denied on Jan. 21, 2025. | |
| 24a666 | (1) Whether Donald Trump is entitled to an automatic stay of criminal proceedings against him in state court while his claims of presidential immunity from criminal prosecution are addressed on interlocutory appeal to New York"s appellate courts and, if necessary, this court; (2) whether the trial court"s admission and use of evidence of Trump"s official acts in a state-court jury trial on criminal charges violated the doctrine of presidential immunity recognized in Trump v. United States; and (3) whether a sitting president"s complete immunity from criminal prosecution during his term in office extends to the president-elect of the United States during the brief but crucial period between his election, his certification as the president-elect, which has now occurred, and his inauguration, as he conducts presidential transition activities that are integral and preparatory to his imminent assumption of the executive power of the United States. | Emergency application for stay is denied on Jan. 9, 2025. Justices Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh would grant the application. | |
| 24a553 | Whether the Supreme Court should recall and stay the mandate of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit which held that a new expert report can restart the clock for filing a habeas petition that is otherwise untimely. | Emergency application for stay is denied on Dec. 17, 2024. | |
| 24a463 | Whether the Supreme Court should stay the EPA's rule regarding the disposal of coal combustion residuals. | Emergency application for stay is denied on Dec. 11, 2024. | |
| 24a475 | Whether the Supreme Court should stay the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit"s mandate to give Ruel Hamilton the opportunity to seek review of questions concerning his right to be free from double jeopardy. | Emergency application for stay is denied on Dec. 10, 2024. | |
| 24a419 | Whether the Supreme Court should recall and stay the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit"s mandate ordering a new trial in an attempted-murder case. | Emergency application for stay and recall of mandate is denied on Nov. 22, 2024. | |
| 24a440 | Whether the Supreme Court should issue an injunction to protect the public viewpoint speech of Washington licensed physicians, which has been characterized as "misinformation," from investigation, prosecution, and sanctioning by the state. | Emergency application for injunction is denied on Nov. 20, 2024. | |
| 24a483 | Whether the Supreme Court should stay the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit"s mandate so that Samuel Boima may pursue his challenge to how the lower court determined what constitutes a "serious" crime warranting involuntary medication. | Emergency application for stay is withdrawn on Nov. 19, 2024 as the district court dismissed the criminal complaint against Boima. | |
| 24a447 | Whether the Supreme Court should stay the district court"s order directing John Doe to disclose his name within 14 days or have his Title IX case involuntarily dismissed. | Emergency application for stay is denied on Nov. 12, 2024. | |
| 24a403 | Whether the Supreme Court should stay the district court"s preliminary injunction of the federal government"s Keeping Families Together guidance granting parole "in place" to certain noncitizens who have been in the country for at least a decade, are married to or the stepchild of a U.S. citizen, and meet other criteria. | Emergency application for stay is denied as moot on Nov. 12, 2024. | |
| 24a396 | Whether Eric Dean Sheppard should be issued bail pending appeal of his conviction for wire fraud, which raises the same question the court will hear in Kousisis v. United States. | Emergency application for bail is denied on Nov. 7, 2024. | |
| 24a408 | Whether the Supreme Court should stay the Pennsylvania Supreme Court"s decision requiring election officials to count the provisional ballots of voters whose mail-in ballots were deemed invalid by a ballot-sorting machine. | Emergency application for stay is denied on Nov. 1, 2024. | |
| 24a427 | Whether the Supreme Court should issue an injunction pending appeal directing the Pennsylvania Department of State to post information at all polling locations across Pennsylvania on Election Day to inform voters that they can write in Cornel West for president. | Emergency application for injunction is denied on Oct. 31, 2024. | |
| 24a407 | Whether the Supreme Court should stay the district court's injunction and allow Virginia to continue its program aimed at removing noncitizens from the state voting rolls. | Emergency application for stay is granted on Oct. 30, 2024. Justices Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson would deny the application. | |
| 24a405 | Whether the Supreme Court should grant an emergency injunction ordering Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson to remove Robert F. Kennedy, Jr."s name from the state"s ballot. | Emergency application for injunction is denied on Oct. 29, 2024. Justice Gorsuch dissenting. | |
| 24a399 | Whether the Wisconsin Election Commission should remove Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. as a candidate for president, with a sticker covering his name, on the state's general election ballot. | Emergency application for injunction is denied on Oct. 29, 2024. | |
| 24a287 | Whether the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act"s enforcement provisions facially violate the private-nondelegation doctrine. | Emergency application for stay of mandate is granted on Oct. 28, 2024. | |
| 24a325 | Whether the Supreme Court should stay the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit's mandate that South Carolina's Attorney General had waived any immunity the state's Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism has. | Emergency application for stay of mandate is denied on Oct. 23, 2024. | |
| 24a106 | Whether the Supreme Court should temporarily block the Environmental Protection Agency from enforcing a rule aimed at curbing greenhouse gas emissions from new and existing electric generating units. | Emergency application for stay is denied on Oct. 16, 2024. Justice Thomas would grant the applications for stay. Justice Alito took no part in the consideration or decision of these applications. | |
| 24a96 | Whether the Supreme Court should temporarily block the Environmental Protection Agency from enforcing a rule aimed at curbing planet-warming emissions from power plants. | Emergency application for stay is denied on Oct. 16, 2024. Justice Thomas would grant the applications for stay. Justice Alito took no part in the consideration or decision of these applications. | |
| 24a116 | Whether the Supreme Court should temporarily block the Environmental Protection Agency from enforcing a rule aimed at curbing planet-warming emissions from power plants. | Emergency application for stay is denied on Oct. 16, 2024. Justice Thomas would grant the applications for stay. Justice Alito took no part in the consideration or decision of these applications. | |
| 24a97 | Whether the Supreme Court should temporarily block the Environmental Protection Agency from enforcing a rule aimed at curbing planet-warming emissions from power plants. | Emergency application for stay is denied on Oct. 16, 2024. Justice Thomas would grant the applications for stay. Justice Alito took no part in the consideration or decision of these applications. | |
| 24a117 | Whether the Supreme Court should temporarily block the Environmental Protection Agency from enforcing a rule aimed at curbing planet-warming emissions from power plants. | Emergency application for stay is denied on Oct. 16, 2024. Justice Thomas would grant the applications for stay. Justice Alito took no part in the consideration or decision of these applications. | |
| 24a95 | Whether the Supreme Court should temporarily block the Environmental Protection Agency from enforcing a rule aimed at curbing planet-warming emissions from power plants. | Emergency application for stay is denied on Oct. 16, 2024. Justice Thomas would grant the applications for stay. Justice Alito took no part in the consideration or decision of these applications. | |
| 24a98 | Whether the Supreme Court should temporarily block the Environmental Protection Agency from enforcing a rule aimed at curbing planet-warming emissions from power plants. | Emergency application for stay is denied on Oct. 16, 2024. Justice Thomas would grant the applications for stay. Justice Alito took no part in the consideration or decision of these applications. | |
| 24a105 | Whether the Supreme Court should temporarily block the Environmental Protection Agency from enforcing a rule aimed at curbing planet-warming emissions from power plants. | Emergency application for stay is denied on Oct. 16, 2024. Justice Thomas would grant the applications for stay. Justice Alito took no part in the consideration or decision of these applications. | |
| 24a348 | Whether the Supreme Court should preliminarily enjoin the National Labor Relations Board from proceeding with administrative hearings against YAPP. | Emergency application for injunction is denied on Oct. 15, 2024. | |
| 24a328 | Whether the Supreme Court should vacate the gag order imposed on former President Donald Trump by Judge Juan Merchan in Trump's criminal trial in New York. | Emergency application for stay is denied on Oct. 8, 2024. | |
| 24a178 | Whether the Supreme Court should stay the Environmental Protection Agency's May 7 rule setting national emission levels for listed hazardous air pollutants. | Emergency application for stay is denied on Oct. 4, 2024. | |
| 24a203 | Whether the Supreme Court should stay the Environmental Protection Agency's May 7 Mercury and Air Toxics Standards rule setting national emission levels for listed hazardous air pollutants. | Emergency application for stay is denied on Oct. 4, 2024. | |
| 24a179 | Whether the Supreme Court should stay the Environmental Protection Agency's May 7 rule setting national emission levels for listed hazardous air pollutants. | Emergency application for stay is denied on Oct. 4, 2024. | |
| 24a199 | Whether the Supreme Court should stay the EPA's May 7 hazardous air pollutants emissions standards rule. | Emergency application for stay is denied on Oct. 4, 2024. | |
| 24a315 | Whether the Supreme Court should recall and stay the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit's mandate finding that a ban on firearm "sales" at gun shows on state property, but not gun shows themselves, survives constitutional scrutiny. | Emergency application for a recall and stay of mandate is denied on Oct. 4, 2024. | |
| 24a215 | Whether the Supreme Court should stay Section 111(d) of the Environmental Protection Agency's "Standards of Performance for New, Reconstructed, and Modified Sources and Emissions Guidelines for Existing Sources: Oil and Natural Gas Sector Climate Review" rule, aimed at cutting methane emissions from oil and gas operations. | Emergency application for stay is denied on Oct. 4, 2024. | |
| 24a186 | Whether the Supreme Court should stay the Environmental Protection Agency's May 7 Mercury and Air Toxics Standards rule setting national emission levels for listed hazardous air pollutants. | Emergency application for stay is denied on Oct. 4, 2024. | |
| 24a180 | Whether the Supreme Court should stay an Environmental Protection Agency rule which reduces the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards for coal-fired power plants by 66-70%, under Section 112 of the Clean Air Act. | Emergency application for stay is denied on Oct. 4, 2024. | |
| 24a197 | Whether the Supreme Court should stay the Environmental Protection Agency's May 7 Mercury and Air Toxics Standards rule setting national emission levels for listed hazardous air pollutants. | Emergency application for stay is denied on Oct. 4, 2024. | |
| 24a213 | Whether the Supreme Court should stay Section 111(d) of the Environmental Protection Agency's "Standards of Performance for New, Reconstructed, and Modified Sources and Emissions Guidelines for Existing Sources: Oil and Natural Gas Sector Climate Review" rule, aimed at cutting methane emissions from oil and gas operations. | Emergency application for stay is denied on Oct. 4, 2024. | |
| 24a285 | Whether the Supreme Court should order New York to include Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. on its ballot. | Emergency application for injunction is denied on Sept. 27, 2024. | |
| 24a262 | Whether the Supreme Court should vacate the Nevada Supreme Court and the state district court's orders to exclude the Nevada Green Party from the 2024 ballot. | Emergency application to vacate orders is denied on Sept. 20, 2024. | |
| 24a146 | (1) Whether the Department of Health and Human Services is violating the Constitution's spending clause by imposing a funding condition "abortion referrals" that is not unambiguously required by Title X; and (2) whether HHS is violating the Weldon Amendment, which expressly protects health care organizations who decline to refer for abortions under Title X, by stripping Oklahoma's Health Department of millions of dollars for declining to refer for abortions under Title X. | Emergency application for injunction or stay is denied on Sept. 3, 2024. Justices Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch would grant the application. | |
| 24a181 | Whether the Supreme Court should stay the lower court's decision, under 18 U.S.C. § 1519, to uphold Eghbal Saffarinia's conviction. | Emergency application for stay of mandate is denied on Sept. 3, 2024. | |
| 24a173 | Whether the Supreme Court should vacate the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit's injunction barring the Biden administration's student loan forgiveness rule. | Emergency application to vacate injunction is denied on Aug. 28, 2024. | |
| 24a11 | Whether the Supreme Court should vacate the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit's stay of the district court's nationwide injunction of the Department of Education's SAVE Plan for student-loan repayment. | Emergency application for stay is denied on Aug. 28, 2024. | |
| 24a164 | Whether the Supreme Court should stay the district court's injunction of Arizona laws that require voter registration applicants to show documentary proof of citizenship and bar voters who have not provided documentary proof of citizenship from casting ballots for president or by mail. | Emergency application for stay is granted as to Ariz. Rev. Stat. Ann. " 16-121.01(C). The application is denied as to Ariz. Rev. Stat. Ann. "" 16-121.01(E) and 16-127(A). | |
| 24a78 | Whether the Supreme Court should stay a preliminary injunction of the Department of Education's April 2024 rule making changes to existing Title IX regulations related to discrimination against transgender individuals. | Emergency application for a partial stay of injunction is denied on Aug. 16, 2024. | |
| 24a79 | Whether the Supreme Court should stay a preliminary injunction of the Department of Education's April 2024 rule making changes to existing Title IX regulations related to discrimination against transgender individuals. | Emergency application for partial stay of injunction is denied on Aug. 16, 2024. | |
| 22o159 | Whether Missouri may file a complaint against New York to stay New York's gag order and impending sentencing against former President Donald Trump during the 2024 election season. | Motion for leave to file bill of complaint is denied on Aug. 5, 2024. Justices Thomas and Alito would grant the motion for leave to file the bill of complaint but would not grant other relief. |