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Emergency application

Mario Lalama Gomez v. United States

Denied
No. 24A1218Stay applicationFiled by a private partyPresented to Justice SotomayorFrom United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

What did the Court do?

The Court denied the request on July 15, 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 34 days after filing

What's being asked

Mario Lalama Gomez asks the Supreme Court to call back and pause the Second Circuit's mandate (its formal order in the case). He wants the pause while he asks the Supreme Court to review the case. The record does not explain what the dispute is about.

What the Court did

Justice Sotomayor refused emergency help and denied (turned down) Gomez's request to call back and pause the Second Circuit's mandate. The order did not decide the underlying dispute, and 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 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 34 days after filing.

What it means

This emergency ruling only addresses a temporary pause; it does not decide who wins the underlying case. The Second Circuit's mandate remains in place; no related Supreme Court case is listed, and no argument is set.

Sources

Facts on this page come from the Supreme Court docket, orders, and opinions for No. 24A1218. The answers restate that record in plain words; explainer copy is written from the record and the filings only.

Checked October 4, 2026