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Emergency application

Pause of appeals court ruling

Aparna Vashisht-Rota v. Howell Management Services, LLC

Denied
No. 25A1166Stay applicationFiled by a private partyPresented to Justice KaganFrom United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

What did the Court do?

The Court denied the request on April 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 8 days after filing

What's being asked

Aparna Vashisht-Rota, a private individual, asks the Supreme Court to temporarily pause a Ninth Circuit ruling in her case against Howell Management Services, LLC. The record does not explain what the dispute or ruling is about.

What the Court did

Justice Kagan refused the requested temporary pause, denying 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 8 days after filing.

What it means

This emergency decision concerns only whether to pause the Ninth Circuit ruling; it does not decide who wins the case. The Ninth Circuit ruling remains in place, and no related Supreme Court case or argument date is listed.

Sources

Facts on this page come from the Supreme Court docket, orders, and opinions for No. 25A1166. The answers restate that record in plain words; explainer copy is written from the record and the filings only.

Checked October 4, 2026