In a rare move, the U.S. Supreme Court has ordered the state and city to file responses to a disabled lawyer’s petition for writ of certiorari pertaining to his preliminary-injunction motion aimed at forcing officials to make fast changes—including installing temporary ramps and lifts—at the Kings County Supreme Court civil courthouse.

The court’s directive, which came via three separate Jan. 15 letters sent to government entities, including the Office of Court Administration, comes as part of an increasingly fierce legal battle being waged between disabled lawyer Caner Demirayak and government officials over what type of structural and other changes must be made—if any—at the courthouse to make it accessible to the disabled.