The Emergency-Docket Dilemma
The Supreme Court’s emergency docket—often called the “shadow docket”—has put the Court between a rock and a hard place. In ruling on an emergency application, the Court can either write nothing and leave its decision unexplained, or it can write an opinion and lock its underdeveloped views in as binding precedent. Tyler Dobbs (Consovoy McCarthy) joins us to explore how a procedure already used by lower courts could offer the Court a solution, bringing clarity and accountability to one of the Court’s most controversial practices. We hope you join us!
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Tyler Dobbs is an Associate with Consovoy McCarthy, PLLC. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he served as an editor of the Harvard Law Review. He then clerked for Judge James C. Ho on the Fifth Circuit and Judge Thomas M. Hardiman on the Third Circuit. Immediately before joining the firm, Mr. Dobbs was an associate in the D.C. office of an international law firm. His first full-length law review article is forthcoming in the Notre Dame Law Review.