Shadow Docket Series

In the Shadows: McCoy v. Alamu

March 13, 2021

Editor’s Note: This piece is the first in our new series covering the Supreme Court’s “shadow docket” — emergency orders and summary decisions outside the Court’s main docket of argued cases and decisions. In November, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the plaintiff in a qualified immunity case in Taylor v. Riojas.  Commentators wondered whether Riojas would…