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Emergency application

In Re Gavin B. Davis

Denied
No. 25A213Stay applicationFiled by a private partyPresented to Justice AlitoFrom United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

What did the Court do?

The Court denied the request on August 28, 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 13 days after filing

What's being asked

Private party Gavin B. Davis asked the Supreme Court to temporarily pause a Fifth Circuit ruling. The record does not say what that ruling or the underlying dispute concerned.

What the Court did

The Supreme Court refused the emergency help: Justice Alito denied (turned down) Davis’s request to pause the Fifth 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 13 days after filing.

What it means

The denial leaves the Fifth Circuit ruling in place for now. This emergency ruling addresses temporary relief, not who wins the underlying case. The docket lists no related case on the main legal question, and no argument is set.

Sources

Facts on this page come from the Supreme Court docket, orders, and opinions for No. 25A213. The answers restate that record in plain words; explainer copy is written from the record and the filings only.

Checked October 4, 2026