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The Lightning Docket

The Circuit Justice, like Zeus on Mount Olympus, instantly strikes down wayward lower courts with a bolt of lightning.

Josh Blackman | 9.23.2026 10:28 AM

In the beginning, there was the merits docket--the slow, tedious certiorari process that can take a year or more to resolve a case. But that was too slow. Then there was the emergency docket--or is it the interim docket?--for cases that need expedited attention. But that........

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