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Emergency application

Benny Daneshjou v. United States

Denied
No. 24A840Stay applicationFiled by a private partyPresented to Justice AlitoFrom United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

What did the Court do?

The Court denied the request on March 7, 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 11 days after filing

What's being asked

Benny Daneshjou, a private person, asks the Supreme Court to pause temporarily (stay) a ruling by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. The record does not say what the dispute is about or what the Fifth Circuit decided.

What the Court did

The emergency request was refused: Justice Alito denied Daneshjou’s request to pause the Fifth Circuit ruling. 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 11 days after filing.

What it means

This ruling only denies a temporary pause; it does not decide who wins the underlying case. The Fifth Circuit ruling remains in place. The docket lists no related Supreme Court case on the main question and no argument date.

Sources

Facts on this page come from the Supreme Court docket, orders, and opinions for No. 24A840. The answers restate that record in plain words; explainer copy is written from the record and the filings only.

Checked October 3, 2026