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Emergency application

Consuelo Saldana v. William Campana

Denied
No. 25A246Stay applicationFiled by a private partyPresented to Justice KaganFrom Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District

What did the Court do?

The Court denied the request on September 2, 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

Consuelo Saldana and others ask the Supreme Court to temporarily pause (stay) a ruling by the California Court of Appeal, Second Appellate District. The record does not explain the dispute or describe what the appeals court ordered.

What the Court did

Justice Kagan refused the request to pause the California appeals court's ruling (denied the application). The ruling remains in place for now; the order does 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 13 days after filing.

What it means

The California Court of Appeal, Second Appellate District's ruling remains in place. No related Supreme Court case on the main legal questions is listed, and no argument is set.

Sources

Facts on this page come from the Supreme Court docket, orders, and opinions for No. 25A246. The answers restate that record in plain words; explainer copy is written from the record and the filings only.

Checked October 4, 2026