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Emergency application

Federal personnel board ruling

Martin Akerman v. Merit Systems Protection Board

Denied
No. 24A730Stay applicationFiled by a private partyPresented to The Chief JusticeFrom United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

What did the Court do?

The Court denied the request on March 24, 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 87 days after filing

What's being asked

Martin Akerman asks the Supreme Court to pause (stay) a Federal Circuit ruling involving the Merit Systems Protection Board. The record does not say what the dispute concerns or what the appeals court ruled.

What the Court did

The Supreme Court refused Akerman's request for a temporary pause and denied (turned down) his application. This 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 87 days after filing.

What it means

The ruling addresses only temporary relief; it does not decide who wins the underlying case. The Federal Circuit ruling remains in place for now. No related Supreme Court case addressing the main dispute exists, and the application was not set for argument.

Sources

Facts on this page come from the Supreme Court docket, orders, and opinions for No. 24A730. The answers restate that record in plain words; explainer copy is written from the record and the filings only.

Checked October 3, 2026