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Emergency application

Pausing a court ruling

Chryssoula Arsenis v. M&T Bank

Denied
No. 26A264Stay applicationFiled by a private partyPresented to Justice AlitoFrom United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

What did the Court do?

The Court denied the request on August 28, 2026: 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 9 days after filing

What's being asked

Chryssoula Arsenis, a private party, asks the Supreme Court to temporarily pause a Third Circuit ruling in a dispute with M&T Bank and others. The record does not explain what the dispute or ruling concerned.

What the Court did

Justice Alito refused Arsenis’s request for a temporary pause (denied the application), leaving the Third Circuit ruling unpaused. 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 273 rulings on applications decided without a response came 8 to 29 days after filing, and the median was 14 days; this one was ruled on 9 days after filing.

What it means

This emergency decision only addresses a temporary pause: the Third Circuit ruling remains in effect, but the decision does not decide who wins the underlying dispute. No related Supreme Court case is listed, and the application was not set for argument.

Sources

Facts on this page come from the Supreme Court docket, orders, and opinions for No. 26A264. The answers restate that record in plain words; explainer copy is written from the record and the filings only.

Checked October 5, 2026