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Emergency application

David Lynn v. Ronald Ferguson

Denied
No. 25A73Stay applicationFiled by a private partyPresented to Justice AlitoFrom Supreme Court 3rd Judicial District of New York, Albany County

What did the Court do?

The Court denied the request on July 28, 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 19 days after filing

What's being asked

David Lynn, a private party, asks the Supreme Court to temporarily pause a ruling by New York's Supreme Court in Albany County. The docket does not say what the ruling or dispute concerns; Ronald Ferguson is the other party.

What the Court did

Justice Alito refused Lynn’s request for a temporary pause (denied the application). The docket does not list any votes, 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 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 19 days after filing.

What it means

The emergency ruling does not decide who wins the underlying case. The Albany County court's ruling is not paused. No related case on the main question exists at the Supreme Court, and the application was not set for argument.

Sources

Facts on this page come from the Supreme Court docket, orders, and opinions for No. 25A73. The answers restate that record in plain words; explainer copy is written from the record and the filings only.

Checked October 4, 2026