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Emergency application

In Re Darryl Heffner

Denied
No. 25A723Stay applicationFiled by a private partyPresented to Justice AlitoFrom Supreme Court of Texas

What did the Court do?

The Court denied the request on December 19, 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 23 days after filing

What's being asked

A private party asks the Supreme Court to pause (stay) a lower-court ruling from the Supreme Court of Texas while the appeal continues. The case is In Re Darryl Heffner.

What the Court did

The Court denied the request on December 19, 2025: the lower court's ruling stays in effect while the appeal continues.

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 150 rulings on applications decided without a response came 4 to 44 days after filing, and the median was 11 days; this one was ruled on 23 days after filing.

What it means

This is a temporary order about what happens while the case is decided, not a ruling on who is right. The case continues in the Supreme Court of Texas.

Sources

Facts on this page come from the Supreme Court docket, orders, and opinions for No. 25A723. The answers restate that record in plain words; explainer copy is written from the record and the filings only.

Checked October 3, 2026