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Emergency application

Pausing a court ruling

Kusmin Amarsingh v. Frontier Airlines, Inc.

Denied
No. 25A1303Stay applicationFiled by a private partyPresented to Justice GorsuchFrom United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit

What did the Court do?

The Court denied the request on May 27, 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 14 days after filing

What's being asked

Kusmin Amarsingh, a private party, asks the Supreme Court to temporarily pause a Tenth Circuit ruling in his case against Frontier Airlines. The record does not say what the ruling decided.

What the Court did

The Court refused emergency help: Justice Gorsuch denied (turned down) Amarsingh’s request to pause the Tenth Circuit ruling. The record gives no explanation, 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 252 rulings on applications decided without a response came 8 to 30 days after filing, and the median was 14 days; this one was ruled on 14 days after filing.

What it means

The Tenth Circuit ruling remains in place, but this emergency ruling does not decide who wins the underlying dispute. No related Supreme Court case on the main question is listed, and the application was not set for argument.

Sources

Facts on this page come from the Supreme Court docket, orders, and opinions for No. 25A1303. The answers restate that record in plain words; explainer copy is written from the record and the filings only.

Checked October 4, 2026