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Emergency application

Tamika D. Pless v. State Employees' Credit Union.

Denied
No. 25A211Stay applicationFiled by a private partyPresented to The Chief JusticeFrom United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

What did the Court do?

The Court denied the request on August 25, 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 6 days after filing

What's being asked

Tamika D. Pless asks the Supreme Court to temporarily pause the Fourth Circuit's ruling in her dispute with State Employees' Credit Union. The record does not explain what the dispute is about or what the appeals court decided.

What the Court did

The Chief Justice refused Pless's request for a temporary pause (denied it), leaving the Fourth Circuit ruling unpaused. The docket says no vote was published. The denial does not decide who wins the underlying dispute.

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 6 days after filing.

What it means

A stay would have been a temporary pause; refusing it leaves the Fourth Circuit's ruling unpaused, but does not decide who wins the underlying dispute. The docket lists no related case about the main dispute, and no argument is set.

Sources

Facts on this page come from the Supreme Court docket, orders, and opinions for No. 25A211. The answers restate that record in plain words; explainer copy is written from the record and the filings only.

Checked October 4, 2026