| 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… |
| 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 |
When a criminal defendant in the middle of a direct appeal seeks relief that first becomes available as a result of an intervening decision from this … |
| 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… |
| 23-6070 |
Eric V. Bartoli v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-11-21 |
Denied |
criminal-procedure ex-post-facto habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargain plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-error statutory-maximum |
Whether a guilty plea should be vacated when the underlying plea bargain contains an error of law (an illegal sentence) at its core |
| 23-6033 |
Darryl Smith v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-11-16 |
Denied |
access-to-courts civil-rights clifford-pinkney darryl-smith due-process james-gwin james-kennar prisoner-rights retaliation sixth-circuit standing us-district-court |
Whether the total bar of all court access rights violates the First Amendment right to petition the government for redress of grievances |
| 23-5871 |
Darryl Smith v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-10-24 |
Denied |
appeals criminal-conviction due-process habeas-corpus judicial-sanction pro-se pro-se-prisoner vexatious-litigator |
Whether judges and magistrates can collectively craft orders to impose a vexatious litigator tag on a pro se prisoner and ban his filings to appeal hi… |
| 23A221 |
Darryl Smith v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-09-07 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
Question not identified. |
| 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… |
| 22-304 |
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… |
| 21-6193 |
In Re Roy Allen Nichols |
|
2021-11-04 |
Denied |
commerce-clause constitutional-jurisdiction constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-power habeas-corpus prejudice recurrent-issues sixth-circuit territorial-limits |
Whether the inferior district court and the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit prejudicially blocked the Petitioner's due-process rights due to th… |
| 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… |
| 19-5851 |
Felix O. Brown Jr. v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-09-06 |
Denied |
2254-habeas cause-and-prejudice cause-prejudice constitutional-claim federal-court federal-procedure federal-procedure-rule habeas-corpus pro-se pro-se-petition procedural-default |
Is there a federal procedural rule that permits a court to refuse to acknowledge and determine a presentation of cause & prejudice in a habeas petitio… |
| 18-5591 |
Valerie Mason v. Dan A. Polster, Judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-08-15 |
Denied |
42-usc-1983 chambers-conduct civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process federal-courts free-speech judicial-conduct judicial-misconduct photography recusal standing |
Whether a judge's refusal to recuse himself after being photographed in his chambers violates the petitioner's civil rights under 42 USC 1983 |