Emergency application
Court penalties against lawyers
Koji IP, LLC v. Renesas Electronics America, Inc.
What did the Court do?
The Court denied the request on April 25, 2025: the lower court's ruling stays in effect while the appeal continues.
Emergency rulings are temporary and do not decide the underlying case.
What's being asked
Koji IP and its lawyers William Ramey, Susan Kalra, and Jeffrey Kubiak ask the Court to pause enforcement of penalties. They want the pause while their appeal continues. They say the penalties require money payments to the Northern District of California and self-reporting to courts and bar groups. The penalties arose in a now-closed patent-infringement suit Koji brought against Renesas. Koji voluntarily ended that suit.
What the Court did
The Chief Justice refused the emergency help and denied (turned down) the application, so this order did not pause enforcement of the penalties. The Court did not publish how the justices voted.
What it means
The denial rejected a temporary pause; it does not decide who wins the underlying dispute. The application said the sanctions appeal was pending in the Federal Circuit. No related Supreme Court case on the main dispute is listed, and the Court set no argument.
Sources
Facts on this page come from the Supreme Court docket, orders, and opinions for No. 24A1034. The answers restate that record in plain words; explainer copy is written from the record and the filings only.