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Emergency application

Extra compensation for workers

Vermont Information Processing, LLC v. National Labor Relations Board

Denied
No. 26A332Stay applicationFiled by a private partyPresented to The Chief JusticeFrom United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

What did the Court do?

The Court denied the request on September 16, 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 7 days after filing

What's being asked

Vermont Information Processing, a software and data-hosting company, asks the Supreme Court to pause a D.C. Circuit ruling. The ruling concerns its dispute with the National Labor Relations Board. The filing links the dispute to federal labor law and a remedy called the “Thryv Remedy.” The excerpts do not explain the underlying claims.

What the Court did

The Chief Justice refused VIP’s request for a temporary pause (denied the application). The emergency ruling does not decide the underlying dispute, and the docket does not report 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 7 days after filing.

What it means

The D.C. Circuit ruling remains in place; this emergency ruling concerns only a temporary pause, not who wins the labor 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. 26A332. The answers restate that record in plain words; explainer copy is written from the record and the filings only.

Checked November 3, 2026