Merrill v. People First of Alabama

Summary

The Court granted a stay of the District Court’s permanent injunction pending appellate proceedings and any timely petition for certiorari, without explaining its reasoning or resolving the merits. Justice Sotomayor, joined by Justices Breyer and Kagan, dissented. She would have denied the stay because the District Court’s record supported its determination that Alabama’s ban on curbside voting violated the ADA and that permitting willing counties to offer curbside voting was a reasonable accommodation. She also concluded that the narrow injunction would not create election confusion.