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Emergency application

Roy Franklin Echols v. CSX Transportation, Inc.

Denied
No. 25A44Stay applicationFiled by a private partyPresented to The Chief JusticeFrom United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

What did the Court do?

The Court denied the request on July 11, 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 11 days after filing

What's being asked

Private individual Roy Franklin Echols asks the Chief Justice to put a ruling on hold (grant a stay, a temporary pause). The ruling is from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. The record gives no details about the dispute or what the Fourth Circuit decided.

What the Court did

The Chief Justice refused emergency help and denied Echols’s request to put the Fourth Circuit ruling on hold (a stay, or temporary pause). 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 11 days after filing.

What it means

This decision concerns only a temporary pause of the Fourth Circuit ruling; it does not decide who wins the underlying dispute. The Fourth Circuit ruling remains in place. The record lists no related Supreme Court case about the main dispute and no argument date.

Sources

Facts on this page come from the Supreme Court docket, orders, and opinions for No. 25A44. The answers restate that record in plain words; explainer copy is written from the record and the filings only.

Checked October 4, 2026