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Emergency application

Crystal Stranger v. Cleer LLC

Denied
No. 25A212Stay applicationFiled by a private partyPresented to Justice SotomayorFrom United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

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 101 days after filing

What's being asked

Crystal Stranger asks the Supreme Court to temporarily pause a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. The case also names Cleer LLC and others, but the record does not say what the dispute or ruling concerns.

What the Court did

The Court refused emergency help: it denied (turned down) Crystal Stranger’s request for a temporary pause of the Second Circuit ruling. 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 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 101 days after filing.

What it means

This emergency ruling concerns only whether to pause the Second Circuit ruling; it does not decide who wins the underlying case. The record does not say what proceedings continue in the Second Circuit. It lists no related Supreme Court case or argument date.

Sources

Facts on this page come from the Supreme Court docket, orders, and opinions for No. 25A212. The answers restate that record in plain words; explainer copy is written from the record and the filings only.

Checked October 4, 2026