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Emergency application

Richard Rynn v. Craig Jennings

Denied
No. 25A159Emergency 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 November 17, 2025.

Emergency rulings are temporary and do not decide the underlying case.

Filed Ruled 110 days after filing

What's being asked

Richard Rynn and others ask the Supreme Court for emergency injunctive relief in their dispute with Craig Jennings and others. The record does not say what the dispute concerns or describe the Ninth Circuit ruling at issue.

What the Court did

The Court refused the emergency help and denied the application (turned it down). It 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 300 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 110 days after filing.

What it means

This emergency ruling concerns only temporary relief; it does not decide who wins the underlying case. The record identifies the Ninth Circuit as the lower court but does not describe further proceedings there. It lists no related Supreme Court case and no argument date for this application.

Sources

Facts on this page come from the Supreme Court docket, orders, and opinions for No. 25A159. The answers restate that record in plain words; explainer copy is written from the record and the filings only.

Checked October 4, 2026