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25-582 Gretchen Whitmer, Governor of Michigan, et al. v. Enbridge Energy, LP, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-11-17 Pending ex-parte-young federal-court real-party-in-interest sovereign-immunity sovereign-lands state-officials Whether a State is the real party in interest, and therefore entitled to sovereign immunity, where a private plaintiff sues state officials in federal…
25-526 Laura Beny v. University of Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-10-30 Denied circuit-split discrimination-evidence honest-belief-doctrine jury-trial-rights summary-judgment title-vii Whether federal courts may apply the judge-made "honest belief" doctrine to grant summary judgment in Title VII cases when: (1) this Court's unanimous…
25A402 Andrew Hess v. Oakland County, Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-10-07 Application election-recount first-amendment hyperbole michigan-statute political-speech terrorist-threat Whether a state statute criminalizing alleged 'terrorist threats' violates the First Amendment when applied to political hyperbole made in a public se…
25A252 Gretchen Whitmer, Governor of Michigan, et al. v. Enbridge Energy, LP, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-09-02 Presumed Complete certiorari constitutional-interpretation federal-law michigan-officials sixth-circuit state-action Whether the Sixth Circuit's ruling on a Michigan state action improperly interpreted or applied federal constitutional or statutory law
25-165 Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians v. Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-08-12 Denied district-court equitable-relief inherent-power injunctive-standards treaty-rights tribal-sovereignty Whether a district court has "inherent equitable power" to enter a coercive "decree" restricting an Indian tribe's treaty rights without its consent a…
25-155 Gennady Y. Paremsky v. Ingham County, Michigan, et al. Michigan 2025-08-08 Denied compensation-rights constitutional-violations contract-impairment due-process equal-protection takings-clause I. Did Michigan Ingham County and its officials Greta Wu, Kim Coleman, Bruce Bragg, Leslie M. Shanlian, Jennifer Mack violate U.S. Const. amend. V, XI…
25-5143 Mary Lynn Taylor v. Michigan, et al. Michigan 2025-07-17 Denied contractual-obligation due-process economic-liberty employment-rights property-interest school-denial-period Did the implementation of Michigan's School Denial Period create an established property interest, and/or an economic liberty interest for Appellant, …
24A1171 Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians v. Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-05-30 Presumed Complete fishing-decree inherent-equitable-powers sixth-circuit treaty-of-1836 treaty-rights tribal-sovereignty Whether a federal district court may use its inherent equitable powers to approve a negotiated fishing decree that diminishes a tribal nation's treaty…
24-1147 Glenn Bowles, et al. v. Gretchen Whitmer, Governor of Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-05-08 Denied constitutional-challenge court-of-claims declaratory-judgment ex-parte-young standing state-officials Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals erroneously held that Petitioners lacked standing to sue under Ex parte Young when naming the Governor and …
24-7022 Darrell Lamar Marshall v. City of Detroit, Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-04-17 Dismissed civil-rights color-of-law conspiracy constitutional-violations fraud statute-of-limitations Whether there is a statute of limitations for civil and criminal charges involving fraud, conspiracy, and constitutional violations against a minor un…
24-1017 Jonathan Lindsey, Michigan State Senator, et al. v. Gretchen Whitmer, Governor of Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-03-24 Denied article-iii-standing constitutional-amendment elections-clause federal-elections legislative-power state-legislature Whether Article III standing exists for individual state legislators to challenge state executive usurpations of delegated powers under the Elections …
24A849 Glenn Bowles, et al. v. Gretchen Whitmer, Governor of Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-03-04 Presumed Complete None
24A503 Latausha Simmons v. City of Southfield, Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-11-20 Presumed Complete civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment indigent-litigant property-deprivation section-1983 Whether the Fourteenth Amendment permits dismissal of a pro se civil rights action based on procedural deficiencies when the plaintiff is an indigent …
24-545 Richard Wershe, Jr. v. City of Detroit, Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-11-14 Denied circuit-split diligence equitable-tolling habeas-corpus prisoner-doctrine retaliation Whether the two-factor Holland v. Florida equitable tolling test applies universally across federal cases and how circuits should interpret diligence …
24-5174 Michael D. Carver v. City of Kalamazoo, Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-07-30 Denied absolute-immunity fabricated-evidence false-arrest fourth-amendment franks-doctrine investigative-conduct malicious-prosecution probable-cause qualified-immunity Whether Franks applies to material omissions, and whether probable cause is vitiated for a particular offense where the omitted information is exculpa…
24-63 Kalvin Schanz v. City of Otsego, Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-07-19 Denied civil-rights degree-of-aid fair-housing-act interference intimidation protected-activity standing statutory-interpretation Whether the Fair Housing Act's prohibition on intimidation or interference with a person who has 'aided or encouraged any other person in the exercise…
23-1084 Jill Hile, et al. v. Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-04-08 Denied blaine-amendment constitutional-amendment equal-protection nonpublic-schools political-disenfranchisement religious-animus school-choice school-vouchers Whether Michigan's constitutional amendment barring direct and indirect public financial support for parochial and other nonpublic schools violates th…
23-841 Emily Evans, et al. v. City of Ann Arbor, Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-02-06 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fraud perjury rooker-feldman rule-60d state-court-judgment Whether a federal court had the authority and obligation to vacate a state court judgment obtained through perjury suborned by the prevailing party's …
23A683 Jill Hile, et al. v. Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-01-24 Presumed Complete constitutional-challenge education-funding establishment-clause first-amendment parent-advocacy school-choice Whether state-level educational choice policies that provide funding or support for alternative education options violate the Establishment Clause or …
23A570 Emily Evans, et al. v. City of Ann Arbor, Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-12-21 Presumed Complete None Question not identified.
23A463 LaTausha Simmons v. City of Detroit, Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-11-21 Presumed Complete civil-rights digital-access due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment indigent-rights Whether an indigent plaintiff's inability to access digital technology constitutes a violation of First Amendment free speech and Fourteenth Amendment…
23-497 L. Lin Wood v. Gretchen Whitmer, Governor of Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-11-09 Denied attorney-ethics attorney-liability civil-procedure due-process federal-civil-procedure frivolous-pleading of-counsel rule-11 rule-11-sanctions safe-harbor-period sanctions standing Whether an attorney whose name is designated as 'Of Counsel' on the signature page of a frivolous pleading that the attorney did not sign, file, submi…
23-486 Sidney Powell, et al. v. Gretchen Whitmer, Governor of Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-11-08 Denied civil-procedure electoral-college first-amendment petition petition-clause rule-11 safe-harbor sanctions Whether serving a Rule 11(c)(2) motion that seeks different relief and lacks the filed version's brief and details triggers the 21-day safe-harbor per…
23A198 Daniel William Rudd v. City of Norton Shores, Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-08-30 Presumed Complete None Question not identified.
23-5267 Dana Lunn v. City of Detroit, Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-08-02 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights court-dismissal discrimination due-process equal-protection judicial-review legal-procedure standing Why was my case dismissed without my knowledge?
23-89 Jennifer Reinoehl v. Gretchen Whitmer, Governor of Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-07-31 Denied americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights covid-19 covid-emergency-powers due-process emergency-powers federal-civil-procedure individual-capacity-suit mootness mootness-doctrine standing state-official-immunity Whether a case involving COVID-19 emergency powers is moot
22-766 Edward Pinkney v. Berrien County, Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-02-15 Denied civil-rights criminal-proceedings due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment probable-cause section-1983 unlawful-prosecution Whether Petitioner's § 1983 claim based on his prosecution, pretrial-criminal-proceedings, trial, conviction, and incarceration for an act the law doe…
22-586 Kimberly Beemer, et al. v. Gretchen Whitmer, Governor of Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-12-27 Denied civil-rights constitutional-challenge covid-19-restrictions due-process emergency-powers free-speech fundamental-rights judicial-review mootness standing voluntary-cessation Is this constitutional challenge to the Michigan Governor's emergency restrictions that directly infringed fundamental rights moot when the restrictio…
22-6263 Terrence Terrell Moore v. Gretchen Whitmer, Governor of Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-12-09 Denied administrative-law agency-decision circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-interpretation procedural-standards standing takings Whether the Supreme Court failed to address the decision of Magistrate Judge Payne and because the Supreme Court did not address this issue, the petit…
22A501 Edward Pinkney v. Berrien County, Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-12-06 Presumed Complete None
22-372 Skatemore, Inc., dba Roll Haven Skating Center, et al. v. Gretchen Whitmer, Governor of Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-10-20 Denied due-process eleventh-amendment fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment just-compensation sovereign-immunity takings-clause Does the Fifth Amendment's requirement of 'just compensation' waive Eleventh Amendment Sovereign Immunity for a takings claim in federal court against…
22-365 Reform America, dba Created Equal, et al. v. City of Detroit, Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-10-18 Denied civil-rights first-amendment free-speech protest-rights public-forum security-justification strict-scrutiny viewpoint-discrimination Does the City's viewpoint-based restriction on protestors in a public forum satisfy strict scrutiny?
22-281 Peter Kruithoff v. Catholic Charities of West Michigan, et al. Michigan 2022-09-26 Denied child-welfare due-process equal-protection marital-status parental-rights standing state-interest statutory-interpretation Does Michigan's Safe Delivery of Newborns Law comply with Due Process requirements?
21-7608 Rufus Lamar Savin Spearman v. Gretchen Whitmer, Governor of Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-04-13 Denied civil-rights constitutional-law due-process free-speech standing takings Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in holding that the Mandatory Vaccine Provision of the Affordable Care Act is unconstitutional
21A564 Rufus Lamar Savin Spearman v. Gretchen Whitmer, Governor of Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-04-01 Presumed Complete None
21-794 Pamela Reilly, Personal Representative of the Estate of Rosemarie Reilly v. Ottawa County, Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-11-30 Denied 14th-amendment civil-rights deshaney-test deshaney-v-winnebago domestic-violence due-process fourteenth-amendment state-actors state-created-danger substantive-due-process third-party-harm Whether an abused woman has pled a substantive due process violation under the Fourteenth Amendment
21-769 Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians v. Gretchen Whitmer, Governor of Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-11-23 Denied allotment congressional-intent federal-reservation indian-land-rights indian-law sixth-circuit-ruling statutory-interpretation superintendence treaty-interpretation treaty-of-detroit treaty-rights Whether the 1855 Treaty of Detroit established a federal reservation for the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians?
21-5534 Omolara Makini, fka Mahogany J. Mignon, fka Timika Janelle Williams v. Michigan, et al. Michigan 2021-09-03 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech police-misconduct standing Whether the Court of Appeals erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims based on the evidence presented and whether the petitioner was denied a fair …
20-8115 Christopher Scott Merrill v. Gretchen Whitmer, Governor of Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-05-25 Denied 28-usc-2241 42-usc-1983 civil-rights covid-19 due-process habeas-corpus prison-conditions prisoner-rights standing Whether prisoners can challenge unsafe prison conditions causing death and other life-threatening conditions due to the COVID-19 pandemic outbreaks us…
20-1493 Stephen Nichols v. Wayne County, Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-04-26 Denied civil-forfeiture constitutional-hearing constitutional-rights due-process municipal-policy municipal-seizure neutral-judge prompt-hearing property-deprivation vehicle-rights Whether due process requires municipalities to provide a prompt hearing before denying vehicle owner continued possession and use
20-1485 JoEllen Mary Crossett v. Emmet County, Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-04-22 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction immunity-defense indian-law indian-reservation malicious-prosecution treaty-interpretation treaty-rights tribal-jurisdiction tribal-sovereignty Is Ms. Crossett on Indian-land, reservation-established, jurisdiction, treaty-rights, tribal-sovereignty, federal-jurisdiction
20-815 Timothy King, et al. v. Gretchen Whitmer, Governor of Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-12-15 Denied civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process election-dispute elections-clause electors-clause equal-protection michigan-election-code preliminary-injunction voter-fraud Whether the petitioners have presented sufficient evidence to support three claims pursuant to 42 USC§ 1983: (Count I) violation of the Elections and …
20A1 Gretchen Whitmer, Governor of Michigan, et al. v. SawariMedia, LLC, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-07-10 Presumed Complete None
19-1370 Kimberley Thames v. City of Westland, Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-06-12 Denied abortions brandenburg-test criminal-threat first-amendment free-speech monell-claim municipal-liability naacp-v-claiborne-hardware qualified-immunity true-threats westland Did Petitioner's arrest and subsequent detention based on her speech violate her clearly established rights as set forth in Watts v. United States, Vi…
19-1197 GwanJun Kim v. City of Ionia, Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-04-04 Denied aiding-and-abetting civil-procedure collateral-review exclusive-possession false-claims-act federal-cause-of-action legal-standards pleading-standards retroactivity rule-9b section-10b securities-fraud Whether the relaxed pleading standard for claims where evidence lies within the defendant's exclusive possession applies to claims under Section 10(b)…
19-8006 John P. Greiner v. Macomb County, Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-03-16 Denied administrative-hearing administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech labor-relations obstruction-of-justice perjury retaliation wrongful-termination Whether the termination of a public employee in retaliation for exercising First Amendment rights and the failure to provide due process in administra…
19-7641 Yusong Gong v. University of Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-02-12 Denied civil-rights civil-rights-act false-claims-act federal-funding first-amendment fraud-waste-abuse government-corruption old-case public-university public-university-employees research-misconduct retaliation settlement-agreement state-immunity title-vii whether-court-of-appeals-made-mistakes-in-determin whether-district-court-court-of-appeals-has-respon whether-us-supreme-court-should-exclude-state-immu whistleblower-protection Whether U. S. Supreme Court should enforce The Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2012 (WPEA) and The False Claim Act (FCA), and extend prote…
19-7200 Barry Wayne Adams v. Calhoun County, Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-01-08 Dismissed civil-procedure civil-rights common-law de-facto-government due-process judicial-review martial-rule peonage pro-se procedural-fairness service-of-process standing Whether the lower courts properly addressed the petitioner's common law claims, viewed the claims in the light most favorable to the petitioner, and f…
19A717 John P. Greiner v. Macomb County, Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-12-27 Presumed Complete None
19-758 Kamal Anwiya Youkhanna, et al. v. City of Sterling Heights, Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-12-13 Denied civil-rights consent-decree establishment-clause first-amendment free-speech local-government municipal-law public-forum religion religious-freedom zoning zoning-law Does a city council rule prohibiting private citizens from making disparaging comments about religion when speaking during the public comment period o…
19-694 Heather Baker, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Kyle Baker, Deceased v. City of Trenton, Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-12-02 Denied civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment home-invasion police-conduct police-procedure search-and-seizure second-amendment self-defense standing warrantless-search Whether the Second Amendment right to bear arms precludes warrantless home searches based on lawful firearm possession
19-383 Joseph Raimondo v. Denise Page Hood, Chief Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-09-23 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech government-action political-affiliation political-discrimination taxation Can the United States Federal Government single out citizens and demand taxation and then deprive the citizens of Constitutional Equal Protections bec…
19-220 Lee Chatfield, et al., Appellants v. League of Women Voters of Michigan, et al. Michigan 2019-08-20 Denied None
19-205 City of Flint, Michigan, et al. v. Shari Guertin, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-08-16 Denied 11th-amendment bodily-integrity civil-rights conscience-shocking due-process eleventh-amendment environmental-toxin governmental-policy standing state-immunity substantive-due-process Whether the substantive due process right to bodily integrity should be extended to protect the public at large from exposure to an environmental toxi…
19A70 Joseph Raimondo v. Denise Page Hood, Chief Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-07-16 Presumed Complete None
19-5117 Antonio Hudson v. Denise Page Hood, Chief Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-07-10 Denied None
19-5052 John P. Greiner v. Macomb County, Michigan, et al. Michigan 2019-07-03 Denied administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process fraud-on-the-court retaliation administrative-hearing civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment first-amendment fraud-on-the-court free-speech labor-law wrongful-termination Whether the termination of the plaintiff violated his First Amendment rights, given the alleged pretext, perjury, and fraud on the court involved in t…
18A1258 Michigan Senate, et al. v. League of Women Voters of Michigan, et al. Michigan 2019-06-04 Presumed Complete equal-protection first-amendment justiciability partisan-gerrymandering redistricting vote-dilution Whether partisan gerrymandering claims are justiciable under the Fourteenth Amendment and First Amendment, and if so, what standards govern such claim…
18A1255 Lee Chatfield, et al. v. League of Women Voters of Michigan, et al. Michigan 2019-06-03 Presumed Complete first-amendment fourteenth-amendment legislative-districts partisan-gerrymandering political-discrimination voting-rights Whether partisan gerrymandering of congressional and state legislative districts violates the First and Fourteenth Amendments by intentionally dilutin…
18A1171 Lee Chatfield, et al. v. League of Women Voters of Michigan, et al. Michigan 2019-05-10 Presumed Complete None
18A1170 Michigan Senate, et al. v. League of Women Voters of Michigan, et al. Michigan 2019-05-10 Presumed Complete None
18A869 Antonio Hudson v. Denise Page Hood, Chief Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-02-26 Presumed Complete None
18-1082 Marianne Guzall v. City of Romulus, Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied circuit-court circuit-court-split civil-rights due-process evidence federal-rules-evidence free-speech hearsay motive-intent party-opponent sixth-circuit whistleblower-retaliation Does the Sixth Circuit Court's split decision determining a statement by a party opponent to be hearsay directly contradict other Circuit Court decisi…
18-983 City of Mackinac Island, Michigan, et al. v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission District of Columbia 2019-01-29 Denied administrative-law agency-deference chenery-doctrine federal-power-act judicial-review regulatory-agency retroactive-rate-increase retroactive-rate-increases statutory-construction Does the prohibition against retroactive rate increases set forth in Section 206(a) of the Federal Power Act foreclose a judicially created exception …
18-963 Terrence Hill v. City of Jackson, Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-01-25 Denied demolition demolition-notice due-process government-action government-policy municipal-liability notice opportunity-for-hearing parratt-v-taylor procedural-fairness property-rights Does due process require the City of Jackson and Jackson County to provide notice and opportunity for hearing appropriate to the nature of the case?
18-7542 Pamela Suzanne Harnden v. St. Clair County, Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-01-24 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-law due-process implied-private-right implied-private-right-of-action kidnapping statute-of-limitations tolling Do the 5th and 14th Amendments justify the tolling of a civil action during the course of a criminal action?
18-6365 Angel Bartlett v. Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-10-17 Denied 18-usc-2332a 18-usc-2332h 18-usc-ch-13 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights due-process government-conspiracy state-action torture weapons-of-mass-destruction Is it wrongful or illegal to use weapons of mass destruction to radiate and torture Angel Bartlett?
18A9 Veretta Burnett v. City of Highland Park, Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-06-29 Presumed Complete None
17-34 Thomas R. Okrie v. Michigan, et al. Michigan 2017-07-05 Denied None
19A455 John P. Greiner v. Macomb County, Michigan, et al. Michigan Presumed Complete None