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Emergency application

Aparna Vashisht-Rota v. Howell Management Services, LLC

Denied
No. 24A961Stay applicationFiled by a private partyPresented to Justice KaganFrom Supreme Court of California

What did the Court do?

The Court denied the request on April 9, 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 9 days after filing

What's being asked

Aparna Vashisht-Rota, a private party, asks the U.S. Supreme Court to temporarily pause a ruling by the Supreme Court of California. The record does not say what that ruling decided or what the dispute concerns.

What the Court did

The Court refused emergency help: Justice Kagan denied (turned down) Vashisht-Rota’s request to temporarily pause the California Supreme Court’s ruling. The Court did not publish how the justices voted. This emergency ruling does not decide who wins the underlying dispute.

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 9 days after filing.

What it means

This denial addresses only the request for a temporary pause; it does not decide who wins the underlying dispute. The California Supreme Court’s ruling remains in effect, and the record lists no related merits case or argument date.

Sources

Facts on this page come from the Supreme Court docket, orders, and opinions for No. 24A961. The answers restate that record in plain words; explainer copy is written from the record and the filings only.

Checked October 3, 2026