[Ads-l] Shadow Docket

[Bill Mullins]

Not in OED.  And I don't find it in the ADS-L archives, either (surprisingly).

General use:

2006 Tampa Tribune 21 Jun 12/2

The local scrutiny comes in response to an investigation by Attorney General Charlie Crist of whether Broward County has a shadow docket featuring prominent people.

https://www.newspapers.com/image/341900497/?match=1&terms=%22shadow%20docket%22




Specifically in reference to the US Supreme Court's trend of issuing orders in response to issues not fully resolved in lower courts and without rationale.


2015 NY University Journal of Law & Liberty Jan 1


The 2013 Supreme Court Term provides an occasion to look beyond the Court’s merits cases to the Court’s shadow docket — a range of orders and summary decisions that defy its normal procedural regularity.


William Baude, "Foreword: The Supreme Court's Shadow Docket" (University of Chicago Public Law & Legal Theory Working Paper No. 508, 2015).
https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1961&context=public_law_and_legal_theoryd

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