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Emergency application

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Peter Kosinski v. Michael Williams

Granted
No. 25A915Stay applicationFiled by a private partyPresented to Justice SotomayorFrom Court of Appeals of New York

What did the Court do?

The Court granted the request on March 2, 2026: the lower court's ruling is on hold while the appeal continues.

Emergency rulings are temporary and do not decide the underlying case. Justice Sotomayor, Justice Kagan, and Justice Jackson would have ruled the other way.

Filed Ruled 18 days after filing

What's being asked

A private party asks the Supreme Court to pause (stay) a lower-court ruling from the Court of Appeals of New York while the appeal continues. The case is Peter Kosinski v. Michael Williams.

What the Court did

The Court granted the request on March 2, 2026: the lower court's ruling is on hold while the appeal continues.

  • Concurred in a separate opinion
  • Dissented
  • Wrote separately
  • Vote not published
Concurring · 1agreed with the result, wrote separately
  1. Alito
Dissenting · 3recorded against the Court's order
  1. Sotomayorwrote a dissent
  2. Kaganjoined Sotomayor's writing
  3. Jacksonjoined Sotomayor's writing
Vote not published · 5the order does not say how they voted
  1. Roberts
  2. Thomas
  3. Gorsuch
  4. Kavanaugh
  5. Barrett
The order records the positions of 4 of 9 justices. The Court usually does not say how each justice voted on an emergency application, so the rest are shown as not published.
Half of 65 rulings on applications where the Court asked for a response came 12 to 27 days after filing, and the median was 17 days; this one was ruled on 18 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 Court of Appeals of New York.

Separate writings

  • Justice Sotomayor, joined by Justice Kagan and Justice Jackson, dissenting

Sources

Facts on this page come from the Supreme Court docket, orders, and opinions for No. 25A915. The answers restate that record in plain words; explainer copy is written from the record and the filings only.

Checked October 4, 2026