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Emergency application

Jonathan Seay v. United States

Denied
No. 25A172Stay 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 13, 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 14 days after filing

What's being asked

Jonathan Seay asks the Supreme Court to temporarily pause a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. The record does not explain what that ruling or the underlying dispute concerns.

What the Court did

The Court refused Seay’s request for a temporary pause of the Eleventh Circuit’s ruling. It also gave him until September 10, 2025, to file for Supreme Court review. Justice Thomas entered the order; 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 14 days after filing.

What it means

This emergency ruling does not decide who wins the underlying case. The Eleventh Circuit’s ruling remains in place; the record lists no related Supreme Court case to decide the main dispute and no argument date.

Sources

Facts on this page come from the Supreme Court docket, orders, and opinions for No. 25A172. The answers restate that record in plain words; explainer copy is written from the record and the filings only.

Checked October 4, 2026