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Emergency application

David Yost, Attorney General of Ohio v. Cynthia Brown

Denied
No. 24A970Stay applicationFiled by a state or local governmentPresented to Justice KavanaughFrom United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

What did the Court do?

The Court denied the request on April 22, 2025: the lower court's ruling stays in effect while the appeal continues.

Emergency rulings are temporary and do not decide the underlying case. Justice Thomas, Justice Alito, and Justice Kavanaugh would have ruled the other way.

Filed Ruled 12 days after filing

What's being asked

A state or local government asks the Supreme Court to pause (stay) a lower-court ruling from the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit while the appeal continues. The case is David Yost, Attorney General of Ohio v. Cynthia Brown.

What the Court did

Application (24A970) for stay presented to Justice Kavanaugh and by him referred to the Court is denied. The order heretofore entered by Justice Kavanaugh is vacated. Justice Thomas, Justice Alito, and Justice Kavanaugh would grant the application.

Dissenting · 3recorded against the Court's order
  1. Thomaswould grant
  2. Alitowould grant
  3. Kavanaughwould grant
Vote not published · 6the order does not say how they voted
  1. Roberts
  2. Sotomayor
  3. Kagan
  4. Gorsuch
  5. Barrett
  6. Jackson
The order records the positions of 3 of 9 justices. The Court usually does not say how each justice voted on an emergency application, so the rest are shown as not published.
Days from filing to a ruling for 15 rulings on applications where the Court asked for a response since January 1, 2025. The band is the middle half, the tick the median, and the mark this application: ruled 12 days after filing.

What it means

This is a temporary order about what happens while the case is decided, not a ruling on who is right. The case continues in the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

Sources

Facts on this page come from the Supreme Court docket, orders, and opinions for No. 24A970. The answers restate that record in plain words; explainer copy is written from the record and the filings only.

Checked September 24, 2026