A "significant part of Supreme Court jurisprudence" or a media-driven controversy that's "rank nonsense," the Supreme Court's emergency applications docket can be tricky to follow on the court's website. This is an effort to shed some light on the cases making their way through the applications docket by organizing and displaying them in a different way.

To learn more about the Supreme Court's emergency docket, check out Georgetown Law Professor Steve Vladeck's book "The Shadow Docket."

This site was created by John Fritze, though it is mostly automated. While I try to keep a regular eye on it, I can't always. Please send comments, suggestions, missed cases or other issues to admin@shadowdocket.net.