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Emergency application

Morgan Joseph Langan v. Chip Davis

Denied
No. 25A182Stay applicationFiled by a private partyPresented to Justice KaganFrom Supreme Court of Arizona

What did the Court do?

The Court denied the request on November 24, 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 138 days after filing

What's being asked

Morgan Joseph Langan asks the U.S. Supreme Court to temporarily pause a ruling by the Supreme Court of Arizona. The record does not say what that ruling ordered or what the dispute concerns.

What the Court did

The Court refused emergency help, denying (turning down) Langan’s request for a temporary pause of the Arizona Supreme Court ruling. It did not decide who wins the underlying dispute. 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 138 days after filing.

What it means

This emergency ruling concerns only a temporary pause; it does not decide who wins the underlying dispute. The Arizona Supreme Court ruling remains in place, and the docket lists no related case about the main dispute or argument date.

Sources

Facts on this page come from the Supreme Court docket, orders, and opinions for No. 25A182. The answers restate that record in plain words; explainer copy is written from the record and the filings only.

Checked October 4, 2026