Mirabelli v. Bonta · ¶35
Today's decision shows, not for the first time, how our emergency docket can malfunction. A case raising novel legal questions and arousing strong views comes to this Court via an application about whether to stay a district court's injunction pending appeal. The ordinary appellate process has barely started; only a district court has ruled on the case's merits. The Court receives scant and, frankly, inadequate briefng about the legal issues in dispute. It does not hold oral argument or deliberate in conference, as regular procedures dictate. It considers the request on a short fuse—a matter of weeks. And then the Court grants relief by means of a terse, tonally dismissive ruling designed to conclusively resolve the dispute. The Court does all this even though the application of existing law to the case raises tricky questions, and so cries out for refection and explanation. The Court…Read in context ›
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