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Emergency application

Leroy Thomas Joyner, Jr. v. United States

Denied
No. 24A1042Stay applicationFiled by a private partyPresented to Justice ThomasFrom United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

What did the Court do?

The Court denied the request on May 1, 2025: the lower court's ruling stays in effect while the appeal continues.

Emergency rulings are temporary and do not decide the underlying case.

Filed Ruled 10 days after filing

What's being asked

Leroy Thomas Joyner, Jr., a private party, asks the Court to temporarily pause a ruling by the Eleventh Circuit. The record does not say what the dispute is about or what that court ordered.

What the Court did

Justice Thomas refused the request for a temporary pause. The denial does not decide who wins the underlying case; no vote was published.

Vote not published · 9the order does not say how they voted
  1. Roberts
  2. Thomas
  3. Alito
  4. Sotomayor
  5. Kagan
  6. Gorsuch
  7. Kavanaugh
  8. Barrett
  9. Jackson
The order does not say how any justice voted, as is usual on the emergency docket.
Half of 302 rulings on applications decided without a response came 8 to 28 days after filing, and the median was 14 days; this one was ruled on 10 days after filing.

What it means

The Eleventh Circuit's ruling is not paused. This emergency denial does not decide the underlying dispute; the record lists no related Supreme Court merits case and no argument date.

Sources

Facts on this page come from the Supreme Court docket, orders, and opinions for No. 24A1042. The answers restate that record in plain words; explainer copy is written from the record and the filings only.

Checked October 3, 2026