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Emergency application

Pausing an appeals court ruling

Calvin Gary Walker v. Texas

Denied
No. 25A1157Stay 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 June 8, 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 56 days after filing

What's being asked

Calvin Gary Walker asks the Supreme Court to pause a ruling by the Fifth Circuit appeals court in his case against Texas. The record does not describe the underlying dispute or what the appeals court's ruling requires.

What the Court did

The Court refused Walker’s request for a temporary pause (denied the application). The order does not decide who wins the underlying case, 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 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 56 days after filing.

What it means

An emergency ruling on a temporary pause does not decide who wins the underlying case. The Fifth Circuit’s ruling remains in effect; related case No. 25-7191 concerns the main question, and no argument was set here.

Sources

Facts on this page come from the Supreme Court docket, orders, and opinions for No. 25A1157. The answers restate that record in plain words; explainer copy is written from the record and the filings only.

Checked October 4, 2026