Emergency docket
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The shadow docket is the increasingly important process at the United States Supreme Court whereby emergency applications, often citing a risk of irreparable harm to the applicant, are decided by the Court without oral argument or extensive briefing. Often the deadlines set for replying to such an application are short and accelerated, and typically the decisions rendered are without full opinions.
The term was coined by University of Chicago law professor William Baude in 2015.