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The Supreme Court’s interim docket, also known as the emergency docket or the 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 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 (8)
| Docket | Case Page | Issue(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 25a376 | Castro v. Guevara | Whether the Supreme Court should stay a mandate from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit that would require a 7-year-old girl residing in Dallas, Texas, with her mother to be sent back to Venezuela. |
| 25a378 | Crawford v. Mississippi | Whether the Supreme Court should stay the execution of Charles Ray Crawford. |
| 25a347 | Hamm v. Sockwell | Whether the Supreme Court should stay the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit's mandate instructing the district court to issue a writ of habeas corpus. |
| 25a354 | Google LLC v. Epic Games | Whether the Supreme Court should partially stay a permanent injunction requiring changes to the Google Play app store. |
| 25a326 | Noem v. National TPS Alliance | 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. |
| 25a319 | Trump v. Orr | Whether the Supreme Court should stay a district court ruling that would require the State Department to provide transgender and nonbinary people with passports reflecting the sex designation of their choosing. |
| 25a312 | Trump v. Cook | Whether the Supreme Court should stay a district court ruling preventing the president from firing a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. |
| 25a322 | We the Patriots USA v. Ventura Unified School District | Whether the Supreme Court should prevent enforcement of California's school vaccination requirements against Jane Doe and all similar situated members of We the Patriots USA, Inc. while the litigation continues. |
Decided applications (28)
| Docket | Case Page | Issue(s) | Decision |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25a356 | Jones v. Florida | Whether the Supreme Court should stay the execution of Victor Tony Jones. | Application for stay of execution is denied on Sept. 30, 2025. |
| 25a331 | Medina v. U.S. | Whether the Supreme Court will issue a certificate of appealability to permit Jacob Matthew Medina's petition for habeas relief to proceed. | Application for a certificate of appealability denied by Justice Kagan on Sept. 29, 2025. |
| 25a269 | Department of State v. AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition | Whether the Supreme Court should stay a district court order requiring the Trump administration to make available for obligation billions of dollars in appropriated foreign-aid funds. | Application for stay granted on Sept. 26, 2025. Justice Kagan wrote a dissenting opinion, joined by Justices Sotomayor and Jackson. |
| 25a335 | In Re Milam | Whether the Supreme Court should stay the execution of Blaine Milam. | Application for stay of execution denied on Sept. 25, 2025. |
| 25a264 | Trump v. Slaughter | Whether the Supreme Court should stay a ruling by a federal appeals court that requires the Trump administration to reinstate a commissioner on the Federal Trade Commission whom President Donald Trump fired this spring. | Application for stay is granted on Sept. 22, 2025. Justice Kagan wrote a dissenting opinion, joined by Justices Sotomayor and Jackson. |
| 25a280 | Pittman v. Florida | Whether the Supreme Court should stay the execution of David Joseph Pittman. | Emergency application for stay of execution is denied on Sept. 16, 2025. |
| 25a287 | New Jersey Transit Corporation v. Colt | Whether the Supreme Court should stay a state trial in which the New Jersey Transit Corporation is a defendant where the court has granted certiorari to determine whether NJ Transit has sovereign immunity. | Emergency application for stay granted on Sept. 19, 2025. |
| 25a276 | Martinez-Guardado v. Kobayashi | Whether the Supreme Court should stay the extradition of Melvin Martinez-Guardado to Honduras pending appeal. | Emergency application for stay of extradition denied on Sept. 10, 2025. |
| 25a234 | South Carolina v. Doe | 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. | Emergency application for stay pending appeal is denied on Sept. 10, 2025. Justices Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch would grant the application. |
| 25a169 | Noem v. Perdomo | Whether the Supreme Court should stay a district court order preventing federal immigration officers from relying on any combination of four factors – “apparent race or ethnicity,” speaking in Spanish or accented English, presence at a location where undocumented immigrants “are known to gather,” and working at specific jobs, such as landscaping or construction – to justify conducting detentive stops in seven southern California counties, including Los Angeles. | Emergency application for stay of district court order granted on Sept. 8, 2025. Justice Sotomayor wrote a dissenting opinion, joined by Justices Kagan and Jackson. |
| 25a227 | Trump v. Global Health Council | Whether the Supreme Court should stay a district court order requiring the Trump administration to make available for obligation tens of billions of dollars in appropriated foreign-aid funds. | Emergency application for stay is withdrawn. |
| 25a231 | Avon Capital, LLC v. Universitas Education, LLC | Whether the Supreme Court should stay an order requiring a payment from SDM Holdings on behalf of Avon Capital, LLC to Universitas Education, LLC. | Emergency application for stay of order for the disbursement of funds denied on Aug. 29, 2025. |
| 25a216 | Windom v. Florida | Whether the Supreme Court should stay the execution of Curtis Windom. | Emergency application for stay of execution is denied on Aug. 27, 2025. |
| 25a187 | Hessler v. U.S. | Whether the Supreme Court will issue a certificate of appealability to permit Simon Hessler's petition for habeas relief to proceed. | Emergency application for a certificate of appealability denied by Justice Sotomayor on Aug. 21, 2025. |
| 25a103 | National Institutes of Health v. American Public Health Association | Whether the Supreme Court should stay district court judgments blocking the National Institutes of Health from terminating grants | Emergency application for stay of district court judgments is granted in part and denied in part. Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson would deny in full. Justices Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh would grant in full. |
| 25a191 | Bates v. DeSantis | Whether the Supreme Court should stay the execution of Kayle Barrington Bates. | Emergency application for stay of execution is denied on Aug. 19, 2025. |
| 25a185 | Bates v. Florida | Whether the Supreme Court should stay the execution of Kayle Barrington Bates. | Emergency application for stay of execution is denied on Aug. 19, 2025. |
| 25a174 | Bates v. Dixon | Whether the Supreme Court should stay the execution of Kayle Barrington Bates. | Emergency application for stay of execution is denied on Aug. 19, 2025. |
| 25a97 | NetChoice, LLC v. Fitch | Whether the Supreme Court should reinstate a preliminary injunction blocking Mississippi's online age verification law from taking effect | Emergency application to vacate an appeals court's stay of a preliminary injunction denied on Aug. 14, 2025. Justice Kavanaugh wrote a concurring opinion. |
| 25a136 | Black v. Tennessee | Whether the Supreme Court should stay the execution of Byron Lewis Black. | Emergency application for stay of execution denied on Aug. 4, 2025. |
| 25a137 | Black v. Tennessee | Whether the Supreme Court should stay the execution of Byron Lewis Black. | Emergency application for stay of execution denied on Aug. 4, 2025. |
| 25a118 | Black v. Tennessee | Whether the Supreme Court should stay the execution of Byron Lewis Black. | Emergency application for stay of execution denied on Aug. 4, 2025. |
| 25a65 | Black v. Tennessee | Whether the Supreme Court should stay the execution of Byron Lewis Black. | Emergency application for stay of execution denied on Aug. 4, 2025. |
| 25a104 | Zakrzewski v. Florida | Whether the Supreme Court should stay the execution of Edward James Zakrzewski. | Emergency application for stay of execution denied on July 30, 2025. |
| 25a62 | Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians v. Howe | Whether the Supreme Court should stay an appeals court mandate stating that private plaintiffs cannot rely on 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to file suit under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. | Emergency application to recall and stay an appeals court mandate is granted on July 24, 2025. |
| 25a11 | Trump v. Boyle | Whether the Supreme Court should stay the district court's judgment reinstating three members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission who had been removed by President Donald Trump. | Emergency application for stay pending appeal is granted on July 23, 2025. Justice Kagan wrote a dissenting opinion, joined by Justices Sotomayor and Jackson. |
| 25a45 | Bell v. Florida | Whether the Supreme Court should stay the execution of Michael Bell. | Emergency application for stay of execution denied on July 15, 2025. |
| 25a57 | Bell v. Dixon | Whether the Supreme Court should stay the execution of Michael Bell. | Emergency application for stay of execution denied on July 15, 2025. Justices Sotomayor and Kagan would grant the application and the petition for a writ of certorari. |