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Emergency application

Thomas E. Camarda v. Elizabeth M. Whitehorn

Denied
No. 25A173Stay applicationFiled by a private partyPresented to Justice BarrettFrom United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

What did the Court do?

The Court denied the request on August 12, 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 20 days after filing

What's being asked

Thomas E. Camarda asks the Supreme Court to pause (stay) a ruling by the Seventh Circuit. The docket record does not say what that ruling or the underlying dispute concerns.

What the Court did

Justice Barrett refused Camarda’s emergency request to pause the Seventh Circuit ruling. That refusal does not decide who should win the underlying case. 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 20 days after filing.

What it means

This emergency ruling addresses only a temporary pause, not who wins the underlying case. The Seventh Circuit ruling remains in place. No related Supreme Court case or argument is listed.

Sources

Facts on this page come from the Supreme Court docket, orders, and opinions for No. 25A173. The answers restate that record in plain words; explainer copy is written from the record and the filings only.

Checked October 4, 2026