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Emergency application

Release during court review

Deshawn Demarcus House v. Jeff Long, Warden

Denied
No. 25A240Bail applicationFiled by a private partyPresented to Justice GorsuchFrom United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit

What did the Court do?

The Court denied the request on August 29, 2025 for release while the case continues.

Emergency rulings are temporary and do not decide the underlying case.

Filed Ruled 24 days after filing

What's being asked

Deshawn Demarcus House asks the Supreme Court to release him or grant him bail while his case is reviewed. The record does not describe the underlying dispute or the Tenth Circuit’s ruling.

What the Court did

Justice Gorsuch refused emergency help and denied House’s request for release or bail. The order addresses only that request, not who should win the underlying case. The docket does not say 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 24 days after filing.

What it means

This temporary emergency ruling does not decide who wins the underlying case. The case remains in the Tenth Circuit; 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. 25A240. The answers restate that record in plain words; explainer copy is written from the record and the filings only.

Checked October 4, 2026