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 applications that have been filed during the current term.
Capital cases can be found here
Federal Application
Application Challenging Federal Government
Pending applications (4)
| Docket | Case Page | Issue(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 25a608 | Abbott v. League of United Latin American Citizens | Whether the Supreme Court should pause a three-judge district court ruling barring Texas from using its new congressional map in the 2026 elections. |
| 25a478 | Blanche v. Perlmutter | Whether the Supreme Court should pause an order that temporarily reinstated the top U.S. copyright official after her firing earlier this year. |
| 25a443 | Trump v. Illinois | Whether the Supreme Court should stay a district court order preventing the Trump administration from federalizing and deploying the National Guard within Illinois. |
| 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. |
Federal Government Prevailed
Federal Government Unsuccessful
Decided applications (25)
| Docket | Case Page | Issue(s) | Decision |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25a561 | Whether the Supreme Court should prohibit enforcement of two California laws requiring businesses to publish reports on a wide range of climate-related topics. | Application for injunction withdrawn on Nov. 18, 2025. | |
| 25a515 | Whether the Supreme Court should pause enforcement of a judgment granting control of $40 million in funds from the estate of Ferdinand Marcos held in an account in New York to the Republic of the Philippines while Filipino human rights victims who won a $2 billion judgment against the estate appeal the judgment. | Application for stay of judgment denied by Justice Sotomayor on Nov. 14, 2025. | |
| 25a376 | 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. | Application for stay denied on Nov. 13, 2025. Justices Sotomayor and Jackson would grant the application. | |
| 25a539 | Whether the Supreme Court should pause a district court's orders requiring the Trump administration to fully fund November Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) payments. | Justice Jackson granted the Trump administration's request for an administrative stay on Nov. 7, 2025. On Nov. 11, the court extended the administrative stay. Jackson indicated that she would not have extended the administrative stay, and that she would have turned down the government's request. On Nov. 13, the stay request was withdrawn. | |
| 25a319 | 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. | Application for stay granted on Nov. 6, 2025. Justice Jackson wrote a dissenting opinion, joined by Justices Sotomayor and Kagan. | |
| 25a476 | Whether the Supreme Court should block the city from implementing zoning restrictions — enacted in 2001 but never enforced — against businesses that devote 40% or less of their business to adult entertainment. | Application for injunction denied by Justice Sotomayor on Oct. 31, 2025. | |
| 25a402 | Whether the Supreme Court should grant an injunction prohibiting the enforcement of a Michigan law on making a terrorist threat. | Application for writ of injunction denied by Justice Kavanaugh on Oct. 20, 2025. | |
| 25a322 | 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. | Application for injunctive relief denied on Oct. 17, 2025. | |
| 25a411 | Whether the Supreme Court should stay the enforcement of a judgment of $1,436,650,000 against Alex Jones. | Application to stay collection denied by Justice Sotomayor on Oct. 14, 2025. | |
| 25a354 | Whether the Supreme Court should partially stay a permanent injunction requiring changes to the Google Play app store. | Application for partial stay denied on Oct. 6, 2025. | |
| 25a326 | 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 Oct. 3, 2025. Justices Sotomayor and Kagan would deny the application. Justice Jackson wrote a dissenting opinion. | |
| 25a331 | 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 | 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. | |
| 25a264 | 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. | |
| 25a287 | 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. | Application for stay granted on Sept. 19, 2025. | |
| 25a276 | Whether the Supreme Court should stay the extradition of Melvin Martinez-Guardado to Honduras pending appeal. | Application for stay of extradition denied on Sept. 10, 2025. | |
| 25a234 | 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. | Application for stay pending appeal is denied on Sept. 10, 2025. Justices Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch would grant the application. | |
| 25a169 | 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. | 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 | 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. | Application for stay is withdrawn. | |
| 25a231 | Whether the Supreme Court should stay an order requiring a payment from SDM Holdings on behalf of Avon Capital, LLC to Universitas Education, LLC. | Application for stay of order for the disbursement of funds denied on Aug. 29, 2025. | |
| 25a187 | Whether the Supreme Court will issue a certificate of appealability to permit Simon Hessler's petition for habeas relief to proceed. | Application for a certificate of appealability denied by Justice Sotomayor on Aug. 21, 2025. | |
| 25a103 | Whether the Supreme Court should stay district court judgments blocking the National Institutes of Health from terminating grants | 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. | |
| 25a97 | Whether the Supreme Court should reinstate a preliminary injunction blocking Mississippi's online age verification law from taking effect | Application to vacate an appeals court's stay of a preliminary injunction denied on Aug. 14, 2025. Justice Kavanaugh wrote a concurring opinion. | |
| 25a62 | 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. | Application to recall and stay an appeals court mandate is granted on July 24, 2025. | |
| 25a11 | 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. | Application for stay pending appeal is granted on July 23, 2025. Justice Kagan wrote a dissenting opinion, joined by Justices Sotomayor and Jackson. |