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Emergency application

Bank dispute

Robert Fiedler v. US Bank Trust N.A.

Denied
No. 25A71Stay 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 July 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 16 days after filing

What's being asked

Robert Fiedler and others ask the Supreme Court to temporarily pause a ruling by the Eleventh Circuit. The docket names US Bank Trust N.A. as the opposing party but gives no details about their dispute or what the ruling says.

What the Court did

The Supreme Court refused emergency help: Justice Thomas denied (turned down) the request to temporarily pause the Eleventh Circuit ruling. The order gives no explanation, and 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 16 days after filing.

What it means

This emergency ruling concerns only a temporary pause; it does not decide who wins the dispute. The Eleventh Circuit ruling remains in place. The docket lists no related Supreme Court case about the main legal questions and no argument date.

Sources

Facts on this page come from the Supreme Court docket, orders, and opinions for No. 25A71. The answers restate that record in plain words; explainer copy is written from the record and the filings only.

Checked October 4, 2026