While the U.S. Supreme Court’s interim or emergency docket has drawn outsized attention in the last decade, bids for stays pending appeal and other emergency relief requests make up a large share of work at the federal appeals courts too—albeit marked by far less scholarly attention and criticism.
While the U.S. Supreme Court’s interim or emergency docket has drawn outsized attention in the last decade, bids for stays pending appeal and other emergency relief requests make up a large share of work at the federal appeals courts too—albeit marked by far less scholarly attention and criticism.

