In re Perkins
In brief
The Supreme Court declined to hear Perkins's request and did not decide whether the Fourth Circuit should have acted on his emergency motions.
- Where it stands
- Decided
Decided · May 26, 2020
- What it’s about
- The Court denied Wesley Perkins’s request for extraordinary relief. His filing alleged that the Fourth Circuit had failed to act on his emergency motions for a stay and an injunction while his appeal was pending.
- Who it affects
- The denial ended Perkins's request for Supreme Court relief, but left unresolved whether the Fourth Circuit failed to act on his emergency motions.
Summary: written with AI from the case record.
What it's about
Wesley Perkins represented himself in the request. He filed the stay motion on December 10, 2019, and the injunction motion on December 11, 2019, while his appeal was pending.
The request concerned alleged inaction in a pending appeal, not a Supreme Court ruling on the underlying legal claims.
Question presented
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, in Case No. 19-2342, has so far departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings, or sanctioned such a departure by a lower court, as to call for an exercise of this Court’s supervisory power, by failing to rule on Petitioner’s “Emergency Motion for a Stay Pending Appeal” and “Motion for an Injunction Pending Appeal” filed on December 10, 2019, and December 11, 2019, respectively.
What the Court decided
Holding
Petition DENIED.
What's next
The Supreme Court's docket action is complete. The order did not resolve the pending appeal or say how the Fourth Circuit handled the emergency motions.
Documents
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More questions
- When did Perkins file the two emergency motions?
- He filed the stay motion on December 10, 2019, and the injunction motion on December 11, 2019.
- Which appeal was involved?
- The request concerned Fourth Circuit Case No. 19-2342.
Sources
Primary materials plus reporting. Best-effort analysis: this explainer relies on a mix of primary materials and trusted secondary sources. Official filings and opinions remain authoritative.