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— 16 entries in the record.
16
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Jun 27, 2024
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Apr 18, 2026
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2024 · 1 event
2025 · 14 events
2026 · 1 event
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2026-04-18
NYT publishes Kantor/Liptak investigation of leaked 2016 SCOTUS memos documenting the origins of the modern shadow (interim) docket
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2025-12-19
Supreme Court Rejects Trump Administration Emergency Request to Silence Immigration Judges, First Major Loss on Shadow Docket
4 src
Supreme Court of the United States · Donald Trump · National Association of Immigration Judges (NAIJ) · Department of Justice · +4
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2025-11-06
SCOTUS shadow-docket stay in Trump v. Orr clears State Department passport policy requiring sex-at-birth marker
3 src
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2025-10-03
SCOTUS second shadow-docket stay in Noem v. National TPS Alliance pauses summary judgment order restoring Venezuelan TPS
3 src
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2025-09-08
SCOTUS shadow-docket stay in Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo permits ICE to use ethnicity, Spanish fluency, location, and occupation as reasonable-suspicion factors
3 src
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2025-08-21
SCOTUS shadow-docket stay in NIH v. American Public Health Association clears DEI-flagged grant terminations (Tucker Act routing)
3 src
confirmed
2025-06-06
SCOTUS shadow-docket stay in U.S. DOGE Service v. CREW narrows FOIA discovery against DOGE, shielding internal operations
3 src
confirmed
2025-05-30
SCOTUS shadow-docket stay in Noem v. Doe clears Trump termination of CHNV humanitarian parole affecting ~500,000 Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan, Venezuelan migrants
3 src
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2025-05-22
SCOTUS 6-3 shadow-docket stay in Trump v. Wilcox greenlights presidential removal of NLRB and MSPB members, effectively narrowing Humphrey's Executor
3 src
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2025-05-19
SCOTUS shadow-docket stay in Noem v. National TPS Alliance clears Venezuelan Temporary Protected Status termination (initial stay)
3 src
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2025-05-06
SCOTUS 6-3 shadow-docket stay in United States v. Shilling lifts injunction on Trump transgender military ban
3 src
confirmed
2025-04-08
SCOTUS shadow-docket stay in OPM v. AFGE lifts district-court order reinstating 16,000 probationary federal employees
3 src
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2025-04-07
SCOTUS 5-4 shadow-docket stay in Trump v. J.G.G. vacates TROs blocking Alien Enemies Act removals of Venezuelan nationals
3 src
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2025-04-04
SCOTUS 5-4 shadow-docket stay in Department of Education v. California clears termination of DEI-flagged teacher-training grants
3 src
confirmed
2025-01-23
Supreme Court stays Fifth Circuit's nationwide injunction of Corporate Transparency Act in McHenry v. Texas Top Cop Shop (shadow-docket order)
6 src
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2024-06-27
SCOTUS stays EPA 'Good Neighbor Plan' for cross-state smog program
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Supreme Court of the United States · Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) · Justice Neil Gorsuch · Justice Amy Coney Barrett (dissent) · +3
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