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25-950 Mark Hartman v. Dave Yost, Attorney General of Ohio Sixth Circuit 2026-02-10 Pending appellate-review certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause constitutional-error due-process sixth-amendment I Did the Sixth Circuit err when it reversed the district court's grant of the writ based on ineffective assistance of counsel during cross-examinatio…
25-6738 Clyde Pontefract v. United States, et al. Sixth Circuit 2026-02-06 Pending administrative-law federal-prisoner-rights federal-tort-claims-act fiduciary-responsibility inmate-property-loss little-tucker-act 1. Does the Substantive Law of 28 CFR §14.1 et seq. and 28 CFR §543.30 et seq. qualify for the Little Tucker Act under United States V. Mitchell, 463 …
25A755 Adam David Clayman v. Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-12-31 Application appellate-review court-discretion emergency-relief judicial-records procedural-due-process sealing-motion Question not identified.
25A699 Larry E. Harrison v. Sharon A. Oliver, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-12-16 Application eighth-amendment hirschsprung-disease incontinence medical-indifference medical-treatment prisoner-rights Whether a prison medical staff's deliberate indifference to a prisoner's serious medical condition constitutes a violation of the Eighth Amendment's p…
25-6377 Ronald Wolters v. Shelbie Smith, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-12-15 Pending certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel sixth-amendment strickland-standard Did the Sixth Circuits denial of a COA decide the important federal question related to sufficiency of the evidence and proof beyond a reasonable doub…
25-635 Edward Ronny Arnold v. Moore and Smith Tree Care LLC Sixth Circuit 2025-12-03 Pending appellate-review constitutional-violation electronic-evidence procedural-error sixth-circuit subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit erred in ruling the Appellant forfeited appellate review? 2. Whether the United S…
25A642 Mark Hartman v. Dave Yost, Attorney General of Ohio Sixth Circuit 2025-12-02 Application constitutional-challenge criminal-punishment ex-post-facto lifetime-reporting sex-offender-registration sixth-circuit Whether a state's lifetime sex offender registration requirement constitutes an unconstitutional ex post facto punishment or a permissible regulatory …
25A623 Faraday Hosseinipour v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-11-26 Application conspiracy intent-to-defraud mail-fraud mens-rea multi-level-marketing securities-fraud Whether a defendant may be convicted of a federal fraud conspiracy without a jury finding of specific intent to defraud
25-595 James William Hall v. Anthony Board, in His Individual and Official Capacity, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-11-21 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights court-procedure death-threats judicial-error subject-matter-jurisdiction I Now comes petitioner James William Hall. On September 20, 2023, a complaint was filed in the Barberton Municipal Court by plaintiff Anthony Board Sr…
25A581 Ashley Grayson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-11-17 Application clean-hands-doctrine congressional-intent judicial-exception privacy-protection statutory-interpretation wiretap-act Whether a federal court may judicially create a 'clean-hands' exception to the Federal Wiretap Act's statutory prohibition on using improperly interce…
25A524 C. S., by Her Next Friend, Adam Stroub v. Craig McCrumb, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-11-06 Application first-amendment free-speech hat-day school-regulation student-speech weapon-depiction Whether the First Amendment protects a public school student's right to wear clothing depicting a firearm when the message is not overtly threatening
25-529 Mike Brown, Warden v. Louis Chandler Sixth Circuit 2025-10-31 Pending constitutional-violation due-process evidence-exclusion federal-review habeas-corpus state-court 1. Do th is Court's precedents prohibiting the application of arbitrary rules to exclude evidence "clearly establish," under § 2254(d)(1) , that a sta…
25A414 Larry Householder v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-10-10 Presumed Complete federal-prosecution hobbs-act official-misconduct public-corruption quid-pro-quo sixth-circuit Whether a federal public corruption conviction under the Hobbs Act requires proof of an explicit quid pro quo exchange or can be sustained based on ci…
25A365 City of Cleveland, Ohio v. Albert Pickett, Jr., Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated, et al., Sixth Circuit 2025-09-29 Presumed Complete article-iii-standing class-certification concrete-injury disparate-impact fair-housing-act water-liens Whether a federal court may certify a class action under Rule 23 when some class members lack Article III standing due to absence of concrete injury i…
25A363 Teresa Maria Harmon v. Louis I. Waterman, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-09-29 Presumed Complete americans-with-disabilities-act attorney-conduct disability-discrimination legal-advocacy pro-se-litigant reasonable-accommodation Whether an attorney's advocacy in opposing disability accommodations can constitute discrimination or retaliation under the Americans with Disabilitie…
25A295 Lesly Pompy v. Lt. Marc Moore, MANTIS, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-09-15 Application bivens-remedy fourth-amendment joint-task-force qualified-immunity warrantless-search westfall-act Whether a Bivens remedy remains available for warrantless searches and seizures of property by federal officers in joint task-force operations when al…
25-5600 In Re Lonnie W. Hubbard 2025-09-10 Denied appellate-review controlled-substances criminal-law federal-indictment jury-instructions mens-rea Whether the jury instructions adequately informed the jury of the 'knowingly or intentionally' mens rea for 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1) counts as interprete…
25-5531 In Re Omar Rashad Pouncy 2025-09-03 Denied habeas-corpus mandamus panel-rehearing sixth-circuit supreme-court-precedent writ-of-certiorari Should a writ of mandamus issue directing the Sixth Circuit to fulfill its obligation to fully and fairly decide the merits of the timely filed petiti…
25A168 Karl Tobien v. Nationwide General Insurance Company Sixth Circuit 2025-08-07 Presumed Complete choice-of-law circuit-split federal-procedure prima-facie-showing rule-12-b-3 venue-burden Whether federal courts should apply a uniform standard for determining which party bears the burden of proving venue in a motion to dismiss under Rule…
25A140 Michael Salazar v. Paramount Global, dba 247Sports Sixth Circuit 2025-08-04 Presumed Complete certiorari judicial-procedure petition sixth-circuit supreme-court time-extension Whether the Supreme Court should grant an extension of time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari under 28 U.S.C. § 2101(c)
25A119 Donald Olsen v. Aaron Salter Sixth Circuit 2025-07-29 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights due-process eyewitness-testimony law-enforcement qualified-immunity show-up-identification Whether a police officer can be held liable for a due process violation when conducting a single-photo show-up identification procedure and whether qu…
25A96 Michael Poffenbarger v. Troy E. Meink, Secretary of the Air Force, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-07-23 Presumed Complete covid-vaccination military-mandate mootness preliminary-injunction religious-freedom rfra Question not identified.
25A94 Hunter Doster, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated as a Class, et al. v. Troy E. Meink, Secretary of the Air Force, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-07-23 Presumed Complete backpay covid-vaccination mootness preliminary-injunction religious-liberty rfra Question not identified.
25A78 Benny Lee Hodge v. Laura Plappert, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-07-21 Presumed Complete constitutional-review criminal-procedure en-banc federal-review habeas-corpus sixth-circuit Question not identified.
25A4 Karu Gene White v. Laura Plappert, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-07-01 Presumed Complete certiorari-standard federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance state-court-deference supreme-court-precedent Whether a federal habeas court may deny relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) based on hypothetical reasoning not actually used by the state court, and whe…
25-5007 Fredrick Johnson v. Ohio Ohio 2025-07-01 Denied as-applied-challenge circuit-court firearm-possession intervening-precedent second-amendment state-court-appeal Must a state-court appellate system address the merits of a defendant's Second Amendment as-applied challenge to a firearm-possession charge under Rah…
25-5006 Fredrick Johnson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-07-01 Denied as-applied-challenge circuit-precedent federal-appeal firearm-possession rahimi-decision second-amendment Must a federal circuit court address the merits of a defendant's Second Amendment as-applied challenge to a firearm-possession charge under Rahimi and…
24A1273 Claudia C. Hoerig v. Shannon Olds, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-06-23 Presumed Complete aedpa certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right habeas-corpus procedural-default state-court Whether the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) permits federal habeas review of a state court conviction when the petitioner's clai…
24A1268 Carl G. Lindsey v. Ohio Ohio 2025-06-23 Presumed Complete constitutional-review death-penalty fetal-alcohol-spectrum-disorder habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence post-conviction Whether a state court's denial of a post-conviction petition raising claims of newly discovered evidence related to Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (F…
24A1182 Ayana Saunders v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-06-02 Presumed Complete constructive-variance criminal-justice-act money-laundering sixth-circuit venue wire-fraud Whether a constructive variance or improper venue can serve as grounds for overturning a federal criminal conviction for wire fraud and money launderi…
24-7029 DeNeal Lee Smith v. Jeff Howard, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-04-18 Denied constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process faretta-right self-representation sixth-amendment Can a criminal defendant invoke his Sixth Amendment right to self-representation under Faretta after an equivocal request?
24-6990 Abdul Kilgore v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-04-15 Denied confrontation-clause hearsay-evidence procedural-reasonableness sentencing sixth-amendment supervised-release Whether the district court's reliance on hearsay evidence in a supervised release revocation proceeding violated the petitioner's Confrontation Clause…
24-1064 John Doe v. Tennessee, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-04-08 Denied ada-title-ii civil-rights disability-discrimination parent-child-rights sovereign-immunity state-court-proceedings Does Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act prohibit disability discrimination in state court proceedings and abrogate sovereign immunity whe…
24-6491 Nawaz Ahmed v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-02-06 Denied asset-freezing certificate-of-appealability due-process hybrid-representation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment right to counsel is violated when a trial court freezes assets, appoints counsel over a defendant's objection, restricts h…
24-838 Sol M. Leiner v. Dow, Inc., et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-02-05 Denied bankruptcy-discharge constitutional-provisions federal-court jurisdiction product-liability supreme-court-review Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in dismissing the case involving product liability claims against Dow Defendants and jurisdiction over federal versus …
24-808 Coney Island Auto Parts Unlimited, Inc. v. Jeanne Ann Burton, Chapter 7 Trustee for Vista-Pro Automotive, LLC Sixth Circuit 2025-01-30 Judgment Issued circuit-split civil-procedure default-judgment personal-jurisdiction rule-60 void-judgment Whether Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(c)(1) imposes any time limit to set aside a void default judgment for lack of personal jurisdiction
24-716 Tate David Prows v. City of Oxford, Ohio, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-01-08 Denied article-iii-standing chilling-effect constitutional-rights first-amendment legislative-authority police-power Are all First Amendment Chilling Effect Cases Subjective and Do Political Subdivisions of States Have the Lawful Authority to Create Their Own Police …
24-224 Plumbers Local 290 Pension Trust Fund v. Root, Inc., et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-08-29 Dismissed circuit-split disclosure-standards materiality risk-factors sec-filing securities-law Whether the Supreme Court should resolve the circuit split regarding the misleading nature of risk factor disclosures in SEC filings when a warned ris…
24-5198 In Re Mawule Tepe 2024-07-31 Denied civil-procedure corporate-disclosure parties-to-the-proceedings Question not identified
23-7782 Jake Paul Heiney v. Heidi E. Washington Sixth Circuit 2024-06-24 Denied brady-violations certificate-of-appealability confrontation-clause cross-examination-limitations expert-witness habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sufficiency-of-evidence medical-malpractice-defense
23-7683 Keon Lamont Lee v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-06-11 Denied appellate-rights circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea guilty-plea-withdrawal plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal sentencing sixth-circuit Should a district court grant a pre-sentencing motion to withdraw a guilty plea if that plea was made without full knowledge of its consequences?
23-7652 In Re Anthony Brown 2024-06-06 Denied constitutional-rights due-process fair-preliminary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel rule-59(e) sixth-circuit statute-of-limitations whether-sixth-circuit-erred
23-7557 Paul Henry Gibson v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-05-24 Denied constitutional-violation due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus hospital-records incapacitation judicial-bias procedural-error structural-error Does the lower court's decision to bar petitioner, and deny equitable tolling for the period of time petitioner was incapacitated, violate due-process…
23-7552 Jermeal White v. Ronald Erdos, Warden, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-05-23 Denied appeals civil-rights court-of-appeals district-court due-process evidence-review legal-procedure scotus-review summary-judgment use-of-force Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit err in reviewing the full facts of the videotape and the use of force report by the commi…
23-1203 Terpsehore Maras v. Mayfield City School District Board of Education, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-05-09 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction minors mootness mootness-doctrine parental-rights pro-se-representation pro-se-rights statutory-interpretation pro-se-rights,parental-rights,minors,mootness,civil-rights,due-process
23-7427 Alton Pelichet v. Fredeane Artis, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-05-09 Denied certificate-of-appealability due-process equal-protection fair-trial fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment Whether the petitioner's rights to a fair trial, due process, and equal protection were violated
23-1147 Jahmir Christopher Frank v. Good Samaritan Hospital of Cincinnati, Ohio, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-04-23 Denied civil-procedure equitable-powers federal-civil-rule-60(b)(6) medical-malpractice medical-records public-interest rule-60 sixth-circuit tort Should the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit have reversed the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio for f…
23A822 Dennis O'Connor v. Rachel Eubanks, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-03-06 Presumed Complete fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment just-compensation pre-deprivation-process property-rights unclaimed-property Whether the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments require state governments to compensate property owners for interest earned on unclaimed funds held by the…
23A777 Marlean A. Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services Sixth Circuit 2024-02-26 Presumed Complete background-circumstances circuit-split employment-discrimination majority-group statutory-interpretation title-vii Whether Title VII permits courts to impose a heightened evidentiary burden on majority-group plaintiffs alleging employment discrimination by requirin…
23-905 John William Hanson, III v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-02-22 Denied arrest-time civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process excessive-force false-testimony jury-instructions search-and-seizure sentencing whether-the-petitioner-was-falsely-arrested
23-850 Lucinda Jones v. David W. McKeague, Senior Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-02-07 Denied appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights declaratory-judgment-act due-process due-process-claim federal-statute judicial-review jurisdiction non-merit-claim standing Does the Declaratory Act of 28 U.S.C. § 2201 afford jurisdiction over non-merit claims for due-process-violations?
23-822 Nicholas Sandmann v. New York Times Company, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-01-30 Denied fact-vs-opinion first-amendment free-speech milkovich-standard milkovich-v-lorain opinion opinion-doctrine sensory-impressions sixth-circuit Do statements conveying observed sensory impressions in factual, descriptive terms constitute protected 'opinion' under the First Amendment?
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 …
23A665 Tyshawn Shepard v. Ohio Ohio 2024-01-22 Presumed Complete constitutional-challenge criminal-sentencing factual-findings indeterminate-sentencing jury-trial sixth-amendment Whether Ohio's indeterminate sentencing scheme violates the Sixth Amendment by permitting judicial factual findings that increase a defendant's impris…
23A672 Samuel Fields v. Scott Jordan, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-01-22 Presumed Complete confrontation-clause constitutional-violation extrinsic-evidence habeas-relief jury-deliberation sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment's Confrontation Clause prohibits a jury from considering extrinsic evidence against a criminal defendant without providing…
23-725 Eric Friedlander, in His Official Capacity as Secretary of the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services, et al. v. Phillip Truesdell, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-01-04 Denied buck-v-kuykendall certificate-of-need constitutional-interpretation dormant-commerce-clause ground-ambulance-services healthcare healthcare-regulation judicial-precedent sixth-circuit stage-lines Whether the modern case law approach controls a court's analysis of the dormant Commerce Clause and repudiates the holding in Buck v. Kuykendall
23A602 Jeanna Norris, et al. v. Samuel L. Stanley, Jr., in His Official Capacity as President of Michigan State University, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-01-02 Presumed Complete bodily-autonomy covid-vaccine-mandate due-process fourteenth-amendment jacobson-precedent rational-basis-review Whether the Supreme Court's precedent in Jacobson v. Massachusetts remains valid for evaluating vaccine mandates in light of subsequent due process ju…
23A606 Therese M. Waters, on Behalf of Kelly E. Waters v. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-01-02 Presumed Complete administrative-deference medical-food medicare-coverage metabolic-disorder prosthetic-device statutory-interpretation Whether the Medicare Act requires coverage of medically necessary enteral formula as a prosthetic device for patients with rare metabolic disorders wh…
23A558 Gerald D. Fields v. Jay Forshey, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-12-18 Presumed Complete habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance pro-se-representation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment structural-error Whether the Sixth Amendment requires trial courts to explicitly warn defendants of the dangers of self-representation before finding a knowing and vol…
23A474 Xiaorong You, aka Shannon You v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-11-28 Presumed Complete administrative-deference circuit-split economic-espionage intended-loss sentencing-guidelines trade-secrets Whether a sentencing court may defer to the Sentencing Commission's interpretation of 'loss' to include intended but unrealized economic harm under Ki…
23A481 Pleasant View Baptist Church, et al. v. Andrew Beshear Sixth Circuit 2023-11-28 Presumed Complete covid-19-restrictions first-amendment free-exercise hybrid-rights qualified-immunity religious-schools Whether qualified immunity should be limited for executive branch officials who imposed COVID-19 restrictions that discriminatorily impacted religious…
23A424 Kevin Keith v. Harold May, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-11-13 Presumed Complete death-penalty federal-review habeas-corpus procedural-default sixth-circuit successive-petition Whether a state court's denial of a successive habeas corpus petition challenging a criminal conviction and death sentence comports with due process a…
23A393 Alexzandria Orta v. Mark E. Repp, Judge, Tiffin-Fostoria Municipal Court, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-11-01 Presumed Complete circuit-split constitutional-violation contempt-order judicial-immunity judicial-misconduct section-1983 Whether a judge's unconstitutional detention and contempt order can still be shielded by judicial immunity under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 when the actions are…
23A347 Malka Leeal v. Newrez LLC, dba Shellpoint Mortgage Servicing, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-10-17 Presumed Complete None Question not identified.
23A273 Kennath A. Henderson v. Zac Pounds, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-09-28 Presumed Complete None Question not identified.
23-5568 Boaz Pleasant-Bey v. Jason Clendenion, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-09-14 Denied appellate-delay constitutional-rights criminal-justice-system due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus sixth-circuit speedy-appeal standing Whether the 6th Circuit's order departed from Houston v. Lack and Evitts v. Lucy
23A224 Eugenie Henning v. City of Jackson, Tennessee Sixth Circuit 2023-09-08 Presumed Complete employment-discrimination municipal-liability racial-discrimination retaliation sixth-circuit title-vii Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in affirming the district court's judgment in a case involving allegations of racial discrimination and retaliation by…
23A207 Rita C. Simpson-Vlach, et al. v. Michigan Department of Education, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-09-01 Presumed Complete free-appropriate-public-education IDEA mootness special-education standing-doctrine systemic-violations Whether parents of students with disabilities have Article III standing to bring a putative class action alleging systemic violations of the Individua…
23-5368 Larry Scott Reynolds v. Brian Eller, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-08-16 Denied appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-default sixth-circuit Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit erred in denying petitioner a COA?
23-5266 Mantell Alabi Stevens v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-08-02 Denied circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-conviction criminal-law drug-distribution due-process jury-instructions reasonable-doubt sentencing sentencing-enhancement sufficiency-of-evidence Can a court send a case to the jury when the evidence is only sufficient to give them a choice between probabilities instead of being sufficient to pr…
23-5128 In Re Mark T. Stinson, Sr. 2023-07-18 Dismissed 6th-circuit abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-court federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-discretion mandamus motion-denial rule-60b section-2255 Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit abuse its discretion by refusing to answer Stinson's § 2255 motion?
23A34 Oklahoma, et al. v. United States, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-07-14 Presumed Complete commandeering-states federal-preemption horseracing-integrity-and-safety-act private-entity-delegation tenth-amendment Whether Congress violates the non-delegation doctrine and the Tenth Amendment by delegating the creation and enforcement of federal regulations to a p…
23-5091 Javier H. Armengau v. Jenny Hildebrand, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-07-13 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection standing Whether the lower court erred in its application of the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause and Equal Protection Clause
23A5 Darryl Smith v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio Sixth Circuit 2023-07-03 Presumed Complete access-to-courts criminal-conviction filing-restrictions habeas-corpus mandamus prisoner-rights Whether a district court violates a prisoner's constitutional right of access to courts by enforcing filing restrictions that prevent him from appeali…
22-7611 George Cunningham v. Maria Quinn, et vir Sixth Circuit 2023-05-22 Denied 14th-amendment becker-v-montgomery child-custody civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure icara material-evidence notice-of-appeal standing Should the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit have accepted a corrected notice of appeal involving failure to sign, in conflict with…
22-7326 Quandraiko Hayes v. Mike Brown, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-04-20 Denied constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ex-post-facto sentencing Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit unreasonably denied the petitioner's due-process, effective-assistance-of-counsel, cruel-and-u…
22-623 James William Hall v. G.M.S. Management Co., Inc., et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-01-09 Denied 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-statute constitutional-rights court-access due-process first-amendment free-speech pro-se-litigation standing Does a person have rights to a day in court to represent himself as a pro-se even when the appeal court lower United States District and the United St…
22-6498 Joseph T. Shine-Johnson v. David W. Gray, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-01-09 Denied agency counsel-appointment discretionary-review due-process federal-appellate-review habeas-corpus indigent-counsel sixth-amendment state-government Whether due process extends to the State government opting to assign an indigent petitioner appointed counsel on discretionary Review and if due proce…
22-6343 Rossen Iossifov v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-12-20 Denied bitcoin-exchange criminal-venue due-process extradition extraterritorial-jurisdiction money-laundering racketeering venue wire-fraud Jurisdictional-grounds-for-SCOTUS-review
22-6172 Terry L. Benson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-11-29 Denied aggravated-identity-theft civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process frcp identity-theft jury-of-peers personal-jurisdiction rule-60b writ-of-mandamus Whether the lower courts erred in affirming the conviction for aggravated identity theft, in violation of the petitioner's civil-rights, due-process, …
22-477 Lezlie J. Gunn v. Hans-Peter Wild Sixth Circuit 2022-11-18 Denied arise-from civil-procedure foreign-defendant foreign-defendants minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction relate-to sixth-circuit specific-jurisdiction supreme-court-precedent Should the requirement that a plaintiff's cause of action arise from or relate to the defendant's minimum contacts with a state apply to foreign natio…
22-5733 Robert Brown, II v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-10-03 Denied appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-trial evidence fair-trial jury jury-bias perjury perjury-evidence rico rico-conspiracy sixth-amendment Whether the District Court's denial of admission of evidence regarding a Government cooperating witness committing perjury was error and affected the …
22-304 Frank Oswald v. Nicholas Mauer, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-09-29 Denied appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review reasonable-jurists sixth-circuit Does a Circuit Court's denial of an application for a Certificate of Appealability based on the merits of the appeal, rather than on whether reasonabl…
22-5675 Larry Gapen v. Ohio Ohio 2022-09-23 Denied capital-case constitutional-violations due-process extrinsic-evidence federal-constitutional-rights federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus juror-misconduct lex-talionis state-procedural-rules Whether state courts violate the federal constitution's right to due process by applying state procedural rules to prevent substantial claims of feder…
22-5251 Levonne Jomarrio Greer v. Kristopher Taskila, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-08-02 Denied certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review law-enforcement plea-bargaining sham-plea-bargaining sham-tactics Did the district court and appeals court erroneously deny a certificate of appealability?
21-1507 Houston Byrd, Jr. v. Christopher Cook, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-06-01 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights court-conspiracy due-process equal-protection fair-hearing judicial-bias jurisdiction procedural-fairness Did the Circuit court violate one's civil and constitutional rights?
21-8013 In Re Mark Stinson 2022-06-01 Denied administrative-law circuit-court circuit-executive civil-procedure court-of-appeals federal-courts federal-statute judicial-administration mandamus statutory-interpretation Whether the Circuit Executive Staff of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit is in violation of 28 U.S.C. § 1361
21-1443 Edward Ronny Arnold v. Bob Oglesby, Commissioner, Tennessee Department of General Services Sixth Circuit 2022-05-16 Denied 11th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eleventh-amendment sovereign-immunity state-authority wage-withholding warn-act Whether the Defendant, as Commissioner of the State of Tennessee Department of General Services, can use the defense of sovereign immunity
21-7826 Dexter Durrell Cooper v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-05-10 Denied 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review constitutional-error court-of-appeals due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure legal-standard petition-review standing Whether or not the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit erred in its constitutional analysis regarding the petitioner's bail motion
21-1409 Prince Bixler v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-05-03 Denied controlled-substances cross-examination federal-rule-of-evidence-412 fifth-amendment prostitution sentencing-enhancement sex-trafficking sixth-amendment Whether Bixler's rights under the Fifth and Sixth Amendments were violated
21-7363 Jessie Vornell Lewis v. John Davids, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-03-14 Denied certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review jurists-of-reason sixth-circuit united-states-court-of-appeals united-states-district-court Did the United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan and the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit erroneously den…
21-7271 Matthew Moore v. Thomas Mackie, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-03-03 Denied certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure criminal-sexual-conduct due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment Was denied effective assistance of counsel and unconstitutionally coerced into taking a paternity blood test
21-1074 Mark A. Di Carlo v. James R. Swartz, Jr., et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-02-03 Denied attorneys-fees civil-procedure defamation due-process federal-removal fourteenth-amendment ohio-law rule-54 Can a federal district court judge grant attorneys fees in federal district court in a federal removal proceeding from Ohio state courts for defamatio…
21-6962 Robert Eugene Plaster v. Michael Burgess, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-01-26 Denied 6th-circuit certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights denial-of-rights district-court due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review sixth-circuit Did the lower courts erroneously deny petitioner's request for a certificate of appealability in this habeas-corpus case?
21-6949 Reno Fuentes Rios v. Ken Clark, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-01-25 Denied civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus parole sentencing Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit erred in denying all claims under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 and 28 U.S.C. § 2255 related to th…
21-1024 Miriam Brysk v. Henry Herskovitz, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-01-24 Denied anti-semitism civil-rights emotional-distress first-amendment free-speech injunction standing Whether the use of anti-Semitic signs is protected by the First Amendment
21-740 Richard E. Paulus, M.D. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-11-18 Denied appellate-jurisdiction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process ethical-violations fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court government-misconduct Did the Sixth Circuit err in ruling it lacked jurisdiction to consider allegations of fraud upon the court and due process violations in evaluating a …
21-6075 James Frei v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-10-27 Denied civil-rights due-process equal-protection qualified-immunity standing summary-judgment Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in its judgment
21-570 Ralph Keller v. Chippewa County Board of Commissioners, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-10-19 Denied americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights disability-discrimination discrimination due-process individualized-assessment medical-devices reasonable-accommodation rehabilitation-act Did the Lower Courts err in failing to recognize the discrimination against Petitioner, in violation of the Americans with Disabilities and Rehabilita…
21-5809 In Re Dwayne Stoutamire 2021-09-29 Dismissed actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability due-process free-standing habeas-corpus pro-se-status procedural-bar procedural-default standing Whether the facts presented establish the petitioner's constitutional right to free-standing actual innocence claims under Schlup v. Delo, 513 U.S. 29…
21-165 In Re Gracie E. McBroom 2021-08-04 Denied administrative-law civil-rights civil-rights-act due-process employment employment-law judicial-appointment judicial-review precinct-judge standing statutory-interpretation Was this a reasonable question in the mind of the State Franklin County Court of Appeal on June 20, 1996 in the Memorandum Decision
21-5216 Fredie Phillip Koryal v. Sarah Schroeder, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-07-26 Denied certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights district-court due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review sixth-circuit Whether the lower courts erred in denying a certificate of appealability in a habeas corpus case
21-89 Mati Leeal, et ux. v. Ditech Financial, LLC Sixth Circuit 2021-07-22 Denied appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process federal-jurisdiction legal-claims Sixth-Circuit summary-judgment Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit erred in affirming the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mich…
20-1785 Ronald W. Ogle, et al. v. Sevier County Regional Planning Commission, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-06-23 Denied arbitrary-and-capricious board-of-regents-v-roth due-process entitlement-test fourteenth-amendment land-development property-interest regional-planning substantive-due-process Whether initial approval in a land development scheme creates a legitimate claim of entitlement for the purpose of establishing a property interest th…
20-8234 Arian Lamont Brown v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-06-04 Denied career-criminal-guideline criminal-procedure en-banc en-banc-review judicial-discretion mandate mandate-recall precedent sentence-enhancement sentencing sixth-circuit Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit abuse its discretion and err by denying the Motion to Recall the Mandate
20-1602 Cornelius S. Berry, et ux. v. Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-05-18 Denied adjournment amend-complaint case-adjournment circuit-court-review civil-procedure complaint-amendment due-process judicial-discretion motion-to-dismiss procedural-dismissal standing Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit erred in affirming the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mich…
20-1564 James M. Perna v. Health One Credit Union, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-05-11 Denied access-to-courts arbitration civil-rights due-process first-amendment forum-selection jurisdiction petition-clause sixth-circuit writ-of-certiorari Whether a grant of a writ of certiorari is warranted
20-7773 Ganiyu Ayinla Jaiyeola v. Toyota Motor Corporation, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-04-16 Denied abuse-of-discretion circuit-split civil-procedure daubert-standard discovery-deadline expert-report inter-circuit-split intra-circuit-split motion-procedure sanction-standard sanctions Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit created an intra-circuit and inter-circuit split by wrongly deciding that the Distric…
20-7630 Scott Paul Madlock v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-04-02 Denied constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment interrogation right-to-counsel self-incrimination sixth-amendment Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit's decision sanctioned a departure from the accepted and usual course of judicial proc…
20-7525 Masao Kikuchi v. Catherine S. Bauman, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-03-23 Denied administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-review parole parole-challenge standing substantive-due-process Does substantive due process protect inmates in parole process?
20-7442 Ahmad Shalash v. David W. Gray, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-03-12 Denied appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process habeas-corpus judicial-standard legal-precedent prosecutorial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct recantation standing undue-burden Has the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit imposed an improper burden and unduly burdensome Certificate of Appealability (COA) stand…
20-1246 Anna Valentine, Warden v. Johnny Phillips Sixth Circuit 2021-03-09 Denied appellate-review brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland credibility-determination district-court expert-witness federal-civil-procedure federal-habeas habeas-corpus standard-of-review Did the Sixth Circuit violate Fed. Rule Civ. P. 52(a)(6) when it failed to apply the proper, heightened and deferential standard to the district court…
20-7180 William Hugh Wilson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-02-19 Denied appellate-procedure appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review motion-denial sixth-circuit wilson-case Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit erred in denying Wilson's Motion for Certificate of Appealability and Granting Relief
20-7142 Lewis R. Fox v. David W. Gray, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-02-12 Denied certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process felonious-assault habeas-corpus insufficient-evidence merits-review sixth-circuit Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit impose an improper burden and unduly burdensome Certificate of Appealability (COA) standa…
20-1073 John Does 1-10 v. Debra Haaland, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-02-05 Denied civil-rights congressional-immunity constitutional-law due-process federal-immunity free-speech legislative-immunity legislative-privilege libel speech-and-debate-clause Is election to Congress a license to libel anyone, anywhere, anytime, even when the libel is not in response to a press inquiry, does not concern pend…
20-903 First Choice Chiropractic, LLC, et al. v. Mike DeWine, Governor of Ohio, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-01-05 Denied central-hudson-test circuit-split commercial-speech content-based-regulation content-based-restrictions first-amendment free-speech heightened-scrutiny speaker-based-restrictions speaker-identity First Amendment challenge to Ohio statute restricting medical practitioner-patient communications
20-6544 Randall S. Overton v. Matt Macauley, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-12-07 Denied cell-phone-data fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence privacy reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable …
20-6124 Jose Maria Loaiza-Gaspar v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-10-23 Denied abuse-of-discretion appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process guideline-sentence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-withdraw reasonableness sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit abused its discretion when it granted appointed counsel's motion to withdraw and dism…
20-6009 Lamar Thornton v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-10-14 Denied appointed-counsel criminal-justice-act due-process in-forma-pauperis ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-for-leave-to-proceed-in-forma-pauperis petition-for-writ-of-certiorari pro-se-filing sixth-circuit writ-of-certiorari Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the government's actions
20-5976 Dean Reynolds v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-10-09 Denied constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing obstruction-of-justice procedural-unreasonableness profit-calculation remand resentencing sentencing-disparities sentencing-guidelines sentencing-procedure Is defendant's sentence procedurally unreasonable due to errors in sentencing guidelines calculation and enhancement?
20-5247 Avern Lee Burnside v. Randee Rewerts, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-08-04 Denied certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus newly-discovered-evidence perjured-testimony presumption-of-correctness prosecutorial-misconduct Whether Mr. Burnside's due-process rights were violated and he is entitled to a new trial based on newly-discovered-evidence where the prosecutor know…
19-1394 Edward Ronny Arnold v. Herbert Slatery, III, Attorney General of Tennessee Sixth Circuit 2020-06-19 Denied appeals civil-action civil-procedure civil-procedure-rooker-feldman civil-rights damages due-process federal-courts legal-fees pro-se-litigation rooker-feldman-doctrine sixth-circuit-court standing state-courts state-employee-wages Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit misapplied the Rooker-Feldman doctrine
19-8746 Scott A. Group v. Ohio Ohio 2020-06-18 Denied capital-defendant capital-punishment dna-evidence due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel new-evidence new-trial trial-court Whether a state court deprives a capital defendant due process by denying a request to present new evidence to challenge the conviction without consid…
19-1292 Larry A. Meitzner v. Bill Schuette, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-05-14 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights court-falsification cover-up due-process falsification judicial-misconduct legal-conspiracy obstruction-of-justice procedural-irregularity Did the Defendants in 1:15-cv-12870, acting singularly or in concert, criminally falsify the per curiam of the Michigan Court of Appeals docket No. 30…
19-1274 Edward Ronny Arnold v. Herbert Slatery, III, Attorney General of Tennessee Sixth Circuit 2020-05-08 Denied civil-rights due-process electronic-filing equal-access-to-courts fair-labor-standards-act federal-holiday federal-holidays legal-opinion state-government subject-matter-jurisdiction wage-compensation Whether the State of Tennessee Attorney General's legal opinion denying earned wages for a substituted federal holiday violates federal labor laws
19-8393 Joshua Tucker v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-05-04 Denied 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause probation probation-rights search-and-seizure warrantless-searches Whether a probationer has a right to be free from warrantless searches and seizures conducted by law enforcement officials without reason or purpose p…
19-8214 Howard Atkins v. Georgia Crowell, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-04-08 Denied access-to-courts civil-rights due-process in-forma-pauperis poverty standing Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when the lower court denied his motion to proceed in forma pauperis without considering h…
19-771 Gerald Sensabaugh v. Kimberly Halliburton, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-12-16 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights common-law due-process first-amendment free-speech personnel-file protected-speech public-employee qualified-immunity retaliation standing takings Whether the Court should reconsider its qualified-immunity jurisprudence to accord with the official's burden of establishing immunity entitlement at …
19-6834 Lee Hope v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-12-04 Denied 18-usc-922g3 constitutional-vagueness controlled-substance criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-due-process-rehaif-v-united-sta due-process federal-statute judgment-of-acquittal rehaif-v-united-states unlawful-user vagueness Whether the Circuit Court of Appeals erred in holding that defendant's motion for judgment of acquittal was properly denied by the District Court
19-6727 Tyrone Marvin Andrews v. Noah Nagy, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-11-22 Denied alibi-defense civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mandatory-minimum-sentence plea-bargaining sentencing sixth-amendment sixth-circuit-review strickland-v-washington trial-counsel Whether trial counsel was ineffective for failing to investigate an alibi defense at trial
19-451 Edward Ronny Arnold v. Jeff McCord, Commissioner, Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development Sixth Circuit 2019-10-04 Denied 14th-amendment 1st-amendment appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-procedure-rules-of-appellate-procedure-due-p court-clerk-duties default-judgment due-process electronic-filing pro-se-litigation Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit incorrectly dismissed the civil action in conflict with existing rules of appellate p…
19-429 Charles R. Hunter v. United States, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-10-02 Denied 28-usc-2410a asset-depletion circuit-split federal-statute federal-tax-lien governmental-abuse quiet-title sovereign-immunity tax-lien taxpayer-interest third-party-agreement Whether a quiet title action requires taxpayer legal interest in property
19-6076 Tamela M. Lee v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-09-26 Denied constituent-contacts constitutional-limits criminal-conviction federal-officials government-contact hobbs-act honest-services mcdonnell-v-united-states municipal-officials official-act Can a county official be convicted of Honest Services and Hobbs Act violations for contacting federal and municipal officials on behalf of constituent…
19-5432 Kevin Michael-Dorman Beltowski v. Shawn Brewer, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-08-01 Denied credibility-determinations criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-error due-process evidence-sufficiency harmless-error instructional-error judicial-review jury-instructions newly-discovered-evidence right-to-defense right-to-present-defense sufficiency-of-evidence Whether instructional error occurred in a way that conflicts with the Supreme Court's clearly established harmless-error precedents
19-115 Frank J. Lawrence, Jr. v. United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan Sixth Circuit 2019-07-24 Denied Abuse-of-discretion Admission-to-practice bar-admission constitutional-rights Criticism-of-officials due-process expressive-activities First-Amendment free-speech judicial-discretion judicial-review law-practice-admission sixth-circuit standing uniformity-of-decisions Whether the Sixth Circuit's decision conflicts with its own recent declaration that the petitioner is 'duly qualified' to practice law, and whether th…
18-9475 Darrell Kennedy v. Rusty Washburn, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-05-30 Denied actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus mcquiggin-v-perkins pro-se schlup-v-delo statute-of-limitations Whether Mr. Kennedy was denied due process by the Court of Appeals' improper evaluation of Mr. Kennedy's actual-innocence claim to establish cause to …
18-1410 James A. Jackson v. Thomas Lawson Sixth Circuit 2019-05-09 Denied constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment miranda-rights miranda-v-arizona self-incrimination sixth-circuit united-states-v-hale unlawful-detention Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit may condition enforcement of a citizen's right against unlawful detention guaranteed …
18-9059 Geary Gilmore v. Shirlee Harry, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-05-01 Denied certificate-of-appealability constitutional-review due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure merits-adjudication sixth-circuit standard-of-review supervisory-power Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit violated the procedure prescribed by 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(2) and imposed an improper b…
18-9022 Maurice Edward Carter v. Mike Parris, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-04-26 Denied constitutional-violation fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel miranda-rights probable-cause search-and-seizure sixth-circuit Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit decision to deny Mr. Carter's habeas corpus relief misconstrued meritorious unresolve…
18-1305 Timothy O'Neill v. Unum Life Insurance Company of America Sixth Circuit 2019-04-16 Denied civil-procedure erroneous-interpretation hoover-precedent job-description judicial-review long-term-disability plan-administrator sixth-circuit social-security-disability stare-decisis stare-decisis,civil-procedure,due-process,appeals, Did the Sixth Circuit wrongfully apply the doctrine of stare decisis in upholding the district court's decision denying long-term disability benefits?
18-1295 Dale De Steno, et al. v. Kelly Services, Inc. Sixth Circuit 2019-04-12 Denied appellate-review attorneys-fees civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-issue constitutional-rights due-process free-speech jury-trial precedent seventh-amendment sixth-circuit standing Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit erred by denying the Petitioners' request for a jury trial pursuant to the Seventh Am…
18-8665 Michael Benanti v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-04-02 Denied affidavit criminal-activity fed-evid-r-403 fed-evid-rule-403 fourth-amendment harmless-error nexus nexus-requirement place-to-be-searched search-warrant substantial-rights Whether the Fourth Amendment requires the affidavit supporting a search warrant to show a nexus between the criminal activity at issue and the place t…
18-8463 Douglas A. Dyer v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-03-19 Denied appellate-review circuit-court civil-procedure civil-remedy criminal-procedure double-jeopardy kokesh-v-sec sec sec-disgorgement sixth-circuit supreme-court-interpretation Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit erred in determining that the United States Supreme Court case of Kokesh v. SEC was n…
18-8434 Leif Halvorsen v. DeEdra Hart, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-03-14 Denied amendment-of-habeas-petition clearly-established-law darden-v-wainwright due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default prosecutorial-misconduct white-v-woodall Whether the Sixth Circuit's ruling that a lack of Supreme Court case law dealing with a specific type of improper prosecution closing argument means n…
18-8233 Calvin J. Reid v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-03-05 Denied §2255-motion 18-usc-4241 certificate-of-appealability circuit-split competency-hearing criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-appeal due-process ineffective-assistance mental-competency mental-illness right-to-counsel standards-of-review Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has misapplied the standards set forth in Miller-El v. Cockrell and Buck v. Davis
18-8234 Jeremy Snider v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-03-05 Denied 28-usc-2255 advisory-guidelines advisory-sentencing-guidelines circuit-court-decision circuit-split cognizable-claims criminal-procedure-28-usc-2255 federal-law federal-statute non-constitutional-claims post-conviction-relief sentencing-guidelines sentencing-relief statutory-interpretation Whether non-constitutional claims for sentencing relief grounded on the advisory Sentencing Guidelines can ever be cognizable under 28 U.S.C. § 2255
18-7872 Steven Torres v. Randee Rewerts, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-02-08 Denied appeal certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights guidelines habeas-corpus judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-circuit upward-departure Did the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan and the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit erroneously den…
18-7688 Vincent Johnson v. United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit Sixth Circuit 2019-01-31 Denied appeal-proceedings appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure coa-process due-process federal-appeals integrity-of-proceedings integrity-of-process judicial-review procedural-motion rule-60(b) rule-60b standing Whether a R. 60(b) motion can be first presented at the Federal Appeals level to attack a defect in the integrity of the COA process of the appeal pro…
18-7631 Jerry Haley v. Blair Leibach, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-01-29 Denied certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan post-conviction-counsel post-conviction-proceedings procedural-default trevino-v-thaler Whether the United States District Court decision that Mr. Haley cannot establish cause to excuse the procedural default of his substantial claims of …
18-7377 Jarvis Harris v. Joe Easterling, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-01-11 Denied appellate-jurisdiction appellate-procedure circuit-split civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-courts federal-law federal-question judicial-review legal-precedent standing supreme-court-precedent supreme-court-review Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and District Court for the Western District has entered a decision in conflict with t…
18-7188 Ian R. Davis v. Margaret Bradshaw, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-12-27 Denied 28-usc-2244 actual-innocence brady-v-maryland discovery due-process federal-procedure habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-petition prima-facie-showing successive-petition witness-recantation Whether the proof necessary to make a prima facie showing that a petitioner satisfies 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(2)(B)(ii) is equivalent to the proof necessa…
18-639 Marek Biszczanik v. Nationstar Mortgage, LLC, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-11-16 Denied amended-complaint appeals appellate-review civil-procedure court-of-appeals dismissal district-court due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction judicial-review procedural-dismissal sixth-circuit standing Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit erred in affirming the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mich…
18-6678 Jermeal White v. Charmaine Bracy, Warden, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-11-13 Denied appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-courts habeas-corpus standing Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit erred in denying petitioner's Certificate of Appealability under the law
18-6312 Tyrone Mason v. Kevin Lindsey, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-10-12 Denied article-1 article-1-section-9 constitutional-law due-process equitable-tolling federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus ninth-amendment standing writ-suspension Does Article 1 § 9 cl. 2 of the United States Constitution prohibit suspension of the writ of habeas corpus and implicitly grant the petitioner an ina…
18-364 Morris County Board of Chosen Freeholders, et al. v. Freedom From Religion Foundation, et al. New Jersey 2018-09-20 Denied civil-rights establishment-clause first-amendment free-exercise free-exercise-clause free-speech government-funding historic-preservation public-funding religious-status status-based-discrimination trinity-lutheran trinity-lutheran-precedent Whether using generally available historic preservation funds to repair or restore a house of worship constitutes a religious use' that falls outside …
25A669 Harold Wayne Nichols v. Jonathan Skrmetti, Attorney General of Tennessee, et al. Sixth Circuit Denied due-process equal-protection execution-protocol fourteenth-amendment lethal-injection method-of-execution Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause prohibits a state from applying disparate execution protocols to death row prisoners withou…