Posting the Supreme Court docket link again for the Texas case.
A “docket” is merely a list of a court’s cases. When a Supreme Court case is filed, it is docketed when the Supreme Court is officially notified that all parties required to be served with notice of the case have been served. The Texas case was filed on December 7th, but docketed on December 8th.
Simultaneously with filing the case on December 7th, Texas filed a motion to expedite consideration of the case and a motion for a preliminary injunction.
The Supreme Court has required the Defendant States to respond both to the Motion for Leave to file a Bill of Complaint and to the Motion for a preliminary injunction by December 10th.
Once the Defendant States file their responses, I expect the Supreme Court to be fairly swift in both denying preliminary injunction and deny Leave to file a Bill of Complaint, thereby ending the case.