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Emergency application

Michelle Lependorf v. Gabriel Lependorf

Denied
No. 24A1165Stay applicationFiled by a private partyPresented to Justice AlitoFrom Supreme Court of New Jersey

What did the Court do?

The Court denied the request on November 10, 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 182 days after filing

What's being asked

Michelle Lependorf asks the U.S. Supreme Court to temporarily pause a New Jersey Supreme Court ruling while she seeks Supreme Court review. The record does not explain what the ruling or dispute concerned.

What the Court did

The Court refused emergency help: it denied (turned down) Michelle Lependorf’s request for a temporary pause of the New Jersey ruling. That denial does not decide who wins the underlying dispute. The Court did not publish how the justices voted.

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 300 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 182 days after filing.

What it means

The New Jersey Supreme Court ruling remains in place, but this emergency ruling does not settle the underlying dispute. No related case asking the U.S. Supreme Court to decide the main dispute is listed, and no argument was set.

Sources

Facts on this page come from the Supreme Court docket, orders, and opinions for No. 24A1165. The answers restate that record in plain words; explainer copy is written from the record and the filings only.

Checked October 3, 2026