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Emergency application

Police use of force

Miguel Angel Delgado, Jr. v. United States

Denied
No. 25A1036Stay 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 23, 2026: 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 3 days after filing

What's being asked

Miguel Angel Delgado Jr. asks the Supreme Court to temporarily pause the Fifth Circuit's mandate. The record does not explain the underlying dispute or what the Fifth Circuit decided.

What the Court did

The Court refused emergency help: Justice Alito turned down (denied) Delgado's request to pause the Fifth Circuit's mandate. The order gives no reason, and the Court did not publish how the justices voted. It does not decide 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 212 rulings on applications decided without a response came 8 to 34 days after filing, and the median was 14 days; this one was ruled on 3 days after filing.

What it means

This ruling concerns only a temporary pause; it does not decide who wins the underlying dispute. The Fifth Circuit's mandate remains unpaused. 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. 25A1036. The answers restate that record in plain words; explainer copy is written from the record and the filings only.

Checked October 4, 2026