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Emergency application

In Re Ramsey E. Clayter

Denied
No. 25A417Stay applicationFiled by a private partyPresented to Justice Jackson

What did the Court do?

The Court denied the request on October 10, 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 3 days after filing

What's being asked

Ramsey E. Clayter, a private party, asked the Supreme Court to temporarily pause a lower-court ruling. The record does not identify the lower court, the ruling, or what the dispute concerns.

What the Court did

The Court refused emergency help and denied (turned down) Clayter’s request for a temporary pause of the lower-court ruling. 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 3 days after filing.

What it means

The lower-court ruling is not paused, but this emergency ruling does not decide who wins the underlying dispute. The record lists no related case on the main legal questions, and no argument is set.

Sources

Facts on this page come from the Supreme Court docket, orders, and opinions for No. 25A417. The answers restate that record in plain words; explainer copy is written from the record and the filings only.

Checked October 4, 2026