Emergency Docket 2024-25
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.
Applications involving the death penalty are shaded in gray. Applications involving all other topics are in white.
Decided applications are listed by decision date. View this list sorted by case name.
Pending applications
| Docket | Case Page | Issue(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 24A213 | Oklahoma v. Environmental Protection Agency | 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. |
| 24A203 | National Rural Electric Cooperative Association v. Environmental Protection Agency | 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. |
| 24A215 | Continental Resources v. Environmental Protection Agency | 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. |
| 24A199 | America’s Power v. Environmental Protection Agency | Whether the Supreme Court should stay the EPA's May 7 hazardous air pollutants emissions standards rule. |
| 24A186 | Midwest Ozone Group v. Environmental Protection Agency | 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. |
| 24A197 | Talen Montana v. Environmental Protection Agency | 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. |
| 24A179 | Westmoreland Mining Holdings LLC v. Environmental Protection Agency | Whether the Supreme Court should stay the Environmental Protection Agency's May 7 rule setting national emission levels for listed hazardous air pollutants. |
| 24A180 | North Dakota v. Environmental Protection Agency | 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. |
| 24A178 | NACCO Natural Resources Corporation v. Environmental Protection Agency | Whether the Supreme Court should stay the Environmental Protection Agency's May 7 rule setting national emission levels for listed hazardous air pollutants. |
| 24A116 | Edison Electric Institute v. Environmental Protection Agency | Whether the Supreme Court should temporarily block the Environmental Protection Agency from enforcing a rule aimed at curbing planet-warming emissions from power plants. |
| 24A117 | Ohio v. Environmental Protection Agency | Whether the Supreme Court should temporarily block the Environmental Protection Agency from enforcing a rule aimed at curbing planet-warming emissions from power plants. |
| 24A106 | Electric Generators For A Sensible Transition v. Environmental Protection Agency | 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. |
| 24A105 | Midwest Ozone Group v. Environmental Protection Agency | Whether the Supreme Court should temporarily block the Environmental Protection Agency from enforcing a rule aimed at curbing planet-warming emissions from power plants. |
| 24A97 | National Mining Association and America’s Power v. Environmental Protection Agency | Whether the Supreme Court should temporarily block the Environmental Protection Agency from enforcing a rule aimed at curbing planet-warming emissions from power plants. |
| 24A95 | West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency | Whether the Supreme Court should temporarily block the Environmental Protection Agency from enforcing a rule aimed at curbing planet-warming emissions from power plants. |
| 24A96 | National Rural Electric Cooperative v. Environmental Protection Agency | Whether the Supreme Court should temporarily block the Environmental Protection Agency from enforcing a rule aimed at curbing planet-warming emissions from power plants. |
| 24A98 | Nacco Natural Resources Corporation v. Environmental Protection Agency | Whether the Supreme Court should temporarily block the Environmental Protection Agency from enforcing a rule aimed at curbing planet-warming emissions from power plants. |
Decided applications
| Docket | Case Page | Issue(s) | Decision |
|---|---|---|---|
| 24A146 | Oklahoma v. Department of Health and Human Services | (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 | Saffarinia v. U.S. | 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. |
| 24A202 | Cole v. Florida | Whether the Supreme Court should stay the execution of Loran Cole so that he may pursue his Eighth Amendment challenge to Florida's lethal injection procedure. | Emergency application for stay of execution is denied on Aug. 29, 2024. |
| 24A173 | Biden v. Missouri | 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 | Alaska v. Department of Education | 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 | Republican National Committee v. Mi Familia Vota | 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 | Department of Education v. Louisiana | 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 | Cardona v. Tennessee | 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. |
| 24A124 | Burton v. Texas | Whether the Supreme Court should stay the execution of Arthur Lee Burton given strong evidence that he is intellectually disabled. | Emergency application for stay of execution is denied on Aug. 7, 2024. |
| 22O159 | Missouri v. New York | 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. |
| 24A60 | Keith Gavin v. Alabama | Whether the Supreme Court should stay the execution of Keith Edmund Gavin. | Emergency application for stay of execution is denied on July 18, 2024. |
