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The Supreme Court’s emergency docket dominated 2025, with the justices considering a surge of challenges to President Donald Trump’s actions that upended its normal operations and resulted in an ...

The Supreme Court and lower courts clashed multiple times in contentious cases in 2025, a year of fierce legal battles.

January 2, 2026: We checked for new Dying Light: The Beast Docket codes. What are the Dying Light The Beast docket codes? Kyle Crane is back with a score to settle, and that means docket codes are ...

Nuts and Bolts is a recurring series by Stephen Wermiel providing insights into the mechanics of how the Supreme Court works. Please note that the views of outside contributors do not reflect the ...

I am pleased to introduce SCOTUSblog readers to the Interim Docket Blog, where Will Baude, Dan Epps, I, and surely others, will comment on Supreme Court interim orders and related matters. An interim ...

Speaking to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit's Judicial Conference, Justice Brett Kavanaugh suggests that the "interim docket" is a better label for the Supreme Court's docket of ...

Vladeck holds the Charles Alan Wright Chair in Federal Courts at the University of Texas School of Law. His latest book is The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power ...

In fast-track proceedings across the country, the Biden administration has been quietly ordering the deportation of thousands of asylum seekers, most of whom never get their day in court. Take, for ...

The Supreme Court is deciding cases that involve critical decisions affecting our everyday lives while using a procedure that provides little to no transparency to the public. Ahead of the 2022 ...

In the federal court system, like in state court jurisdictions around the country, felonies rank as the most serious crimes and Class A misdemeanors — although sometimes accompanied by hefty fines and ...

Most cases you’ve heard of, including Brown and Roe, have been decided on something called the “merits docket.” When a case makes it through the lower courts to the merits docket, standard procedure ...