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Supreme Court COVID-19 emergency applications — court filings

Supreme Court COVID-19 emergency applications — court filings — 36 documents in the archive, dated July 1, 2000 to November 13, 2022.

Case facts

CourtSupreme Court of the United States
Docket numbersNo. 1:21-cv-00242 — main docket
No. 4:21-cv-01236 (no document in the archive is numbered on it) — other docket filed with this case
Filings36 public filings
Filed2000-07-01 – 2022-11-13
Original PDFs36 of 36

Case summary

This page collects 28 documents filed in the Supreme Court of the United States in emergency applications arising from COVID-19 vaccination requirements. They belong to four sets of application numbers. No. 21A90 is an application by anonymous applicants for a writ of injunction against the Governor of Maine, state health officials and several health systems. Nos. 21A240 and 21A241 are the federal applicants' stay application concerning the Department of Health and Human Services requirement, opposed by Louisiana, Montana, Arizona and other states. Nos. 21A244 and 21A247 concern the Occupational Safety and Health Administration emergency temporary standard on COVID-19 vaccination and testing published at 86 Fed. Reg. 61402. No. 21A477 is the Secretary of Defense's application for a partial stay against U.S. Navy SEALs 1-26.

Case at a glance

PartiesVary by application: anonymous applicants against the Governor of Maine and health systems (21A90); the Secretary of Health and Human Services and others against Louisiana, Montana, Arizona and other states (21A240, 21A241); parties to the OSHA emergency temporary standard applications (21A244, 21A247); the Secretary of Defense against U.S. Navy SEALs 1-26 (21A477)
Court and docketSupreme Court of the United States; application numbers 21A90, 21A240, 21A241, 21A244, 21A247 and 21A477
ProgramNone. The documents concern COVID-19 vaccination requirements, not a relief program
ClaimsEmergency applications for stays and injunctions pending appeal or pending disposition of a petition for a writ of certiorari, together with responses, replies, amicus briefs and appendices
Disposition or statusNo order or opinion of the Court is among the documents on this page. The filings are applications, responses, replies, amicus filings and appendices dated between 2021 and 2022
Status checked2026-09-23 · against DOJ press releases through 2026-09-22; court docket not yet read

What kinds of document are these?

Applications and the briefing around them: a response to an application for a stay pending appeal, a reply in support of a writ of injunction pending disposition of a certiorari petition, a reply in support of an application for a partial stay, motions for leave to file amicus briefs, and appendices of exhibits.

Which matters do they cover?

An application against Maine officials and health systems (21A90); the federal government's stay application opposed by fourteen states in a matter addressed to the Circuit Justice for the Fifth Circuit (21A240, 21A241); the OSHA interim final rule on COVID-19 vaccination and testing issued November 4, 2021 (21A244, 21A247); and the Secretary of Defense's partial stay application in the Navy SEALs matter (21A477).

What are the dates on the page?

The archive records filing dates between July 1, 2000 and March 30, 2022 for the 28 documents, but the documents themselves are dated from October 2021 to March 2022; the outlying dates in the archive's index do not match the documents.

Docket

36 documents in docket-entry order; attachments follow their entry. Gaps name the entries we do not have.

No. 1:21-cv-00242 — main docket

  1. No. 21A90 — Jane Does 1-6 v. Janet T. Mills, Governor of the State of Maine (Supreme Court of the United States)Entry 48

Documents without an entry number

  1. Respondents' Appendix — Joseph R. Biden, Jr. v. State of Missouri, No. 21A240 (U.S.)
  2. Affidavit of Service — Jane Does 1–6 v. Mills, No. 21A90 (Supreme Court of the United States)
  3. Affidavit of Service — Emergency Application for Writ of Injunction, Jane Does 1–6 v. Janet T. Mills, No. 21A90
  4. Response to Application for a Stay Pending Appeal — Becerra v. Louisiana (U.S., Nos. 21A240, 21A241)
  5. Motion for Leave to File Amicus Curiae Brief — John Doe, et al. v. Janet T. Mills, et al. (U.S.)
  6. Leave to File Attached Brief as Amicus Curiae — In re: MCP No. 165 (Supreme Court of the United States, Nos. 21A243, 21A244)
  7. Motion for Leave to File Amicus Brief — Advancing American Freedom, In re MCP No. 165 (U.S.)
  8. Nos. 21A243, 21A244 and Others — In the Supreme Court of the United States
  9. Certificate of Service — In re: MCP No. 165, Occupational Safety and Health Administration — Supreme Court of the United States
  10. Certificate of Service — Liberty, Life and Law Foundation — Brief as Amicus Curiae in Support of Applicants (21A244)
  11. Certificate of Service — Motion of Advancing American Freedom for Leave to File Attached Amicus Brief — Supreme Court of the United States
  12. Certificate of Service — John A. Eidsmoe, In re: MCP No. 165, Occupational Safety and Health
  13. Certificate of Service — Motion of 400 Physicians — Becker Gallagher Legal Publishing Incorporated — Supreme Court of the United States
  14. In Re: Occupational Safety and Health Administration — In the Supreme Court of the United States
  15. Certificate of Service — In re: Occupational Safety and Health Administration, COVID-19 Vaccination and Testing
  16. Certificate of Service — Dr. A. v. Hochul (No. 21A145)
  17. Certificate of Service — Proposed Amici Curiae Brief of John Doe 1, Dr. A v. Kathy Hochul, No. 21A145
  18. Certificate of Service — National Federation of Independent Business, et al. (Supreme Court of the United States, December 17, 2021)
  19. Job Creators Network v. Department of Labor, Occupational Safety & Health Administration (Supreme Court, No. 21A244)
  20. Certificate of Service — Application for a Stay of the Injunction, No. 21A240
  21. Certificate of Service — Amici Curiae in Support of Applicants' Application for a Stay — Xavier Becerra — Louisiana (No. 21A241)
  22. Certificate of Service — Amici Curiae in Support of Applicants in No. 21A240 (Supreme Court of the United States, December 23, 2021)
  23. Certificate of Service — Ohio v. Department of Labor, Nos. 21A244 and 21A247 (Supreme Court)
  24. Motion of American Public Health Association — In re MCP No. 165, Occupational Safety & Health Administration
  25. No. 21A240 — In the Supreme Court of the United States
  26. Certificate of Service — Becker Gallagher, Nos. 21A244, 21A247
  27. Certificate of Service, No. 21A244 (Reply in Support of Immediate Stay of Agency Action)
  28. National Federation of Independent Business v. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (Nos. 21A244, 21A247)
  29. Reply in Support of Immediate Stay of Agency Action — National Federation of Independent Business, No. 21A244
  30. Certificate of Service — Amici Brief of Two Unnamed Workers, No. 21A244 (Supreme Court)
  31. Appendix in Support of Response in Opposition to Partial Stay — Austin v. U.S. Navy SEALs 1-26 (No. 21A477)
  32. Certificate of Compliance — National Federation of Independent Business v. Department of Labor (U.S.)
  33. Affidavit of Service — Supreme Court of the United States, Nos. 21A243, 21A244 (National Federation of Independent Business, et al.)
  34. Affidavit of Service — Supreme Court of the United States, Nos. 21A244, 21A247 (National Federation of Independent Business et al.)
  35. undatedMotion for Leave and Amicus Brief of Liberty, Life and Law Foundation — In re MCP No. 165 (No. 21A244)

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Court, dates and docket numbers are as recorded on the filings.

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