The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected a request for a stay to Gov. Tom Wolf’s business order.

The application to the court had been made by a group of businesses including two from Warren County — Blueberry Hill Golf Club and Caledonia Land Company.

A petition to stay the order was referred by Associate Justice Samuel Alito to the whole court on Wednesday where it was denied.

The entities had also filed a writ of certiorari, or a cert petition, asking the court to take up the case. That wouldn’t bring the immediate relief the petition to stay could have.

A docket for the case indicates that Gov. Wolf has until June 4 to respond to the cert petition.

The court receives 7,000 to 8,000 cert petitions each year and elects to hear less than 100.

“The Executive Order has and is continuing to cause irreparable harm to the Petitioners and all those businesses and entities in the same non-life sustaining classification,” they argued before the Supreme Court.

“The Executive Order and similar orders by governors across the country is doing substantial, unprecedented damage to the economy.” They argue that the decision of the state Supreme Court “permits the continued closure” not only of their businesses but “tens of thousands of other businesses across Pennsylvania and as such constitutes severe, immediate and ongoing deprivation of their rights under the U.S. Constitution.”

The filing asserts that many businesses “may not be able to recover from the severe financial distress caused by the other” and states “that would constitute the complete destruction of the property rights of vast numbers of businesses.”

They also highlight that other states have implemented business closure orders “thus, this case not only has great significance to the people of Pennsylvania, it has great significance to business owners throughout the U.S.”