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Emergency application

Challenge to detention

In Re Kevin Ogden

Denied
No. 26A608Habeas applicationFiled by a private partyPresented to Justice Gorsuch

What did the Court do?

The Court denied the request on October 30, 2026 for release from custody (a writ of habeas corpus).

Emergency rulings are temporary and do not decide the underlying case.

Filed Ruled 141 days after filing

What's being asked

Kevin Ogden asks the Supreme Court for an original writ of habeas corpus (a prisoner's challenge to being locked up). He also asks to file his petition over the page limit. The record does not say what detention or underlying dispute his petition concerns.

What the Court did

Justice Gorsuch refused Kevin Ogden’s request and denied the application (turned it down). 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 291 rulings on applications decided without a response came 8 to 30 days after filing, and the median was 14 days; this one was ruled on 141 days after filing.

What it means

This emergency ruling is temporary and does not decide who wins any underlying dispute. The record identifies no lower-court case or related merits case, and no argument was set.

Sources

Facts on this page come from the Supreme Court docket, orders, and opinions for No. 26A608. The answers restate that record in plain words; explainer copy is written from the record and the filings only.

Checked October 30, 2026