The shadow docket is the use of emergency orders and summary decisions by the Supreme Court of the United States without oral argument. The term was coined in 2015 by University of Chicago Law professor William Baude. The shadow docket is a break from ordinary procedure.

What is the shadow court?

The Shadow Court is a secretive court of Unseelie Changeling opposed to the 600 years' rule of the Seelie monarchs. Many of them are ritualists and have many traditions and holidays, like Samhain, and want a return to a winter rule by the Unseelie and a summer rule by the Seelie.

What is the Supreme Court's shadow docket quizlet?

The shadow docket refers quite literally to decisions made in the dark, referring to emergency orders and summary decisions outside the court's main docket of argued cases.