Supreme Court rejects Trump bid to appeal E. Jean Carroll $5 million verdict

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39. Actually, it was not a "shadow docket" case.

It was a decision on a petition for a writ of certiorari filed by Trump seeking Supreme Court review of the decision on the merits by the Second Circuit upholding the verdict and damages award in the first Carroll case.

The "shadow docket" refers to cases in which emergency relief, typically in the form of a stay of a lower court decision pending further review, sought outside the regular order. Petitions for certiorari are part of the regular order. And Trump wasn't seeking a stay of the appeals court decision -- in fact, that decision had been stayed by the second circuit pending action on the petition for certiorari. Now that the petition has been decided, the second circuit's "mandate" will issue and Trump will be required to comply with the verdict.

It is typically the case that decisions on petitions for certiorari do not have published dissents, although there are exceptions. For example, the denial of Trump's petition for cert in the Carroll case was one of over 90 cases in which the court announced it was denying a petition for cert today. Of those 90+ cases, there was a noted dissent in only three, including the denial of Alan Dershowitz's petition for cert in his defamation case.