Most orders on the shadow docket consist of the granting or denying of a writ of certiorari (a petition for review of a lower-court ruling) or the settlement of routine procedural matters, such as scheduling oral arguments and setting deadlines for the submission of briefs. The informal and commonly used term designating the Court’s nonmerits docket was coined in 2015 by the American legal scholar William Baude to describe “a range of orders and summary decisions that defy normal procedural regularity” and “lack the transparency that we have come to appreciate in its merits cases.” Shadow docket, also called nonmerits docket or motions docket, the body of decisions, usually in the form of orders issued by a single justice of the United States Supreme Court (acting in his or her capacity as a circuit justice for a particular United States Court of Appeals) or by the Supreme Court as a whole, that are independent of the Court’s merits docket, which consists of cases decided in opinions written by members of the Court after hearing oral arguments and considering legal briefs by the relevant parties and by interested third parties, or amici curiae ( Latin: “friends of the court”). ![]() SpaceNext50 Britannica presents SpaceNext50, From the race to the Moon to space stewardship, we explore a wide range of subjects that feed our curiosity about space!.Learn about the major environmental problems facing our planet and what can be done about them! Saving Earth Britannica Presents Earth’s To-Do List for the 21st Century.100 Women Britannica celebrates the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, highlighting suffragists and history-making politicians.COVID-19 Portal While this global health crisis continues to evolve, it can be useful to look to past pandemics to better understand how to respond today. ![]() Student Portal Britannica is the ultimate student resource for key school subjects like history, government, literature, and more.This Time in History In these videos, find out what happened this month (or any month!) in history.#WTFact Videos In #WTFact Britannica shares some of the most bizarre facts we can find. ![]()
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