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Emergency application

Release while appealing

Tonia Scott v. Pennsylvania

Denied
No. 24A787Bail applicationFiled by a private partyPresented to Justice AlitoFrom United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

What did the Court do?

The Court denied the request on February 19, 2025 for release while the case continues.

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

Filed Ruled 13 days after filing

What's being asked

Tonia Scott asks the Supreme Court for release or bail while seeking review. The record says the application concerns a Third Circuit ruling but does not describe that ruling or the underlying dispute.

What the Court did

The Court refused Scott's request for release or bail; Justice Alito denied the application (turned it down). The record includes no explanation, 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 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 13 days after filing.

What it means

The ruling addresses only Scott's request for temporary release or bail; it does not decide the underlying case. The record identifies the Third Circuit as the lower court but does not say what happens there now. No related Supreme Court case on the main legal question is listed, and the application was not set for argument.

Sources

Facts on this page come from the Supreme Court docket, orders, and opinions for No. 24A787. The answers restate that record in plain words; explainer copy is written from the record and the filings only.

Checked October 3, 2026