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Emergency application

Pausing a court ruling

Christopher L. Campbell v. Wilmington Savings Fund Society

Denied
No. 25A1351Stay applicationFiled by a private partyPresented to Justice ThomasFrom District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District

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 12 days after filing

What's being asked

Christopher L. Campbell asks the Supreme Court to temporarily pause a ruling by Florida's Fifth District Court of Appeal. His case names Wilmington Savings Fund Society and others as opposing parties, but the record does not say what the dispute concerns.

What the Court did

The Court refused the emergency help: Justice Thomas denied Campbell's request for a temporary pause. This does not decide who wins the underlying dispute. The docket does not list other justices' positions; no vote was published.

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 12 days after filing.

What it means

This emergency ruling concerns only a temporary pause; it does not decide who wins the underlying dispute. The Florida Fifth District Court of Appeal's ruling was not paused. No related Supreme Court case is listed, and no argument is set.

Sources

Facts on this page come from the Supreme Court docket, orders, and opinions for No. 25A1351. The answers restate that record in plain words; explainer copy is written from the record and the filings only.

Checked October 4, 2026