The Gavel
The Gavel archives Supreme Court merits work: docket cases, opinions, oral arguments, and how sitting justices appear across those cases. It is built for reading the Court’s decided and argued work, not every filing on every petition.
Most petitions never become full Court cases. Certiorari is the Court’s decision to take a case. Merits work is what follows: briefing, argument, and opinion.
This shelf emphasizes argued merits cases discovered across an expanding October Term window, maintained from CourtListener. and related SCOTUS materials. Absence from the docket here does not mean a petition does not exist upstream.
The Court works in October Terms. Case cards carry docket numbers, term labels, and status so you can see where a matter sits.
Opinions and argument audio attach when the archive has them. Join lists can be partial when sources only name some joiners.
Justice pages summarize how a person appears as author, joiner, or panel participant across archived cases. They are not biographies of every vote in American history.
Start on the docket for case posture. Open opinions when you need holdings and citations. Use arguments for audio context. Follow outbound SCOTUS and CourtListener links when you need the live publisher view.