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Emergency application

Michael Rene Garrett v. United States

Denied
No. 25A361Stay applicationFiled by a private partyPresented to Justice ThomasFrom United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

What did the Court do?

The Court denied the request on September 30, 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

Michael Rene Garrett asks the Supreme Court to temporarily pause an Eleventh Circuit ruling in his case against the United States. The record does not say what that ruling concerns.

What the Court did

Justice Thomas refused Garrett's request for a temporary pause (denied the application). The Court did not publish how the justices voted, and the denial does not decide the underlying case.

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 Eleventh Circuit ruling remains in place, but the denial does not resolve the underlying case. The docket lists no related merits case or scheduled argument.

Sources

Facts on this page come from the Supreme Court docket, orders, and opinions for No. 25A361. The answers restate that record in plain words; explainer copy is written from the record and the filings only.

Checked October 4, 2026