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Emergency application

Sarah Nathreen Nakanwagi v. Denver Housing Authority

Denied
No. 24A726Injunction applicationFiled by a private partyPresented to Justice GorsuchFrom United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit

What did the Court do?

The Court denied the request on January 24, 2025, so nothing changes while the case continues in the lower courts.

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

Filed Ruled 6 days after filing

What's being asked

Sarah Nathreen Nakanwagi asks for an emergency injunction (a court order requiring or stopping an action) while her appeal continues. The record names the Denver Housing Authority and others as opposing parties but does not explain the dispute or specify the Tenth Circuit ruling.

What the Court did

Justice Gorsuch refused the request for emergency help and denied the application (turned it down). The order does not decide who wins the main case. 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 6 days after filing.

What it means

This is a temporary ruling on immediate help, not a decision about who wins the case. The underlying appeal is in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, but the record gives no details about its next steps. The docket lists no related Supreme Court case and no argument date.

Sources

Facts on this page come from the Supreme Court docket, orders, and opinions for No. 24A726. The answers restate that record in plain words; explainer copy is written from the record and the filings only.

Checked October 3, 2026