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Emergency application

Mortgage trust dispute

William P. DeBoskey v. Goshen Mortgage, as Separate Trustee for GDBT 1 Trust 2011-1

Denied
No. 25A439Stay 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 October 23, 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 12 days after filing

What's being asked

William P. DeBoskey asks the Supreme Court to temporarily pause an Eleventh Circuit ruling involving Goshen Mortgage as trustee for a trust and others. The record does not explain the dispute or the ruling’s contents.

What the Court did

Justice Thomas refused DeBoskey’s request for emergency help and denied it (turned it down), leaving the Eleventh Circuit ruling unpaused. 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 12 days after filing.

What it means

This emergency ruling addressed only a temporary pause and does not decide who wins the underlying dispute. The Eleventh Circuit ruling remains in effect; the record gives no details about further lower-court proceedings. 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. 25A439. The answers restate that record in plain words; explainer copy is written from the record and the filings only.

Checked October 4, 2026