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Emergency application

Valeria Taveras, et vir v. U.S. Bank National Association, as Legal Title Trustee for Truman 2016 SC6 Title Trust

Denied
No. 25A131Stay applicationFiled by a private partyPresented to Justice ThomasFrom United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

What did the Court do?

The Court denied the request on August 1, 2025: 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

Valeria Taveras and her husband ask the Supreme Court to pause the Eleventh Circuit's mandate (the order putting its decision into effect). They seek that pause while filing and awaiting a decision on a request for Supreme Court review. The record does not explain the dispute with U.S. Bank or what the Eleventh Circuit decided.

What the Court did

The Court refused emergency help: Justice Thomas denied the request to pause the Eleventh Circuit's mandate. The order does not decide who wins the 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 302 rulings on applications decided without a response came 8 to 28 days after filing, and the median was 14 days; this one was ruled on 8 days after filing.

What it means

This emergency ruling addresses only a temporary pause; it does not decide who wins the underlying dispute. The Eleventh Circuit's mandate is not paused. No related Supreme Court case about the main dispute is listed, and no argument is set on this application.

Sources

Facts on this page come from the Supreme Court docket, orders, and opinions for No. 25A131. The answers restate that record in plain words; explainer copy is written from the record and the filings only.

Checked October 4, 2026