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Emergency application

Pausing a court ruling

Kiasha Samuels v. Rashad Weaver

Denied
No. 25A1266Stay applicationFiled by a private partyPresented to The Chief JusticeFrom Supreme Court of Maryland

What did the Court do?

The Court denied the request on May 19, 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

Kiasha Samuels asks the U.S. Supreme Court to temporarily pause a ruling by Maryland’s highest court, the Supreme Court of Maryland. The record does not explain what Samuels and Rashad Weaver’s dispute, or the Maryland court’s ruling, concerns.

What the Court did

The Chief Justice refused Samuels’s request for a temporary pause and denied the application (turned it down). The order does not decide who wins the underlying dispute, 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 209 rulings on applications decided without a response came 8 to 35 days after filing, and the median was 15 days; this one was ruled on 8 days after filing.

What it means

This emergency ruling concerns temporary relief and does not decide who wins the dispute. The Supreme Court of Maryland’s ruling remains unpaused; the docket lists no related case for full Supreme Court review and no argument date.

Sources

Facts on this page come from the Supreme Court docket, orders, and opinions for No. 25A1266. The answers restate that record in plain words; explainer copy is written from the record and the filings only.

Checked October 4, 2026