Sixth-Circuit

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25-6705 Chad B. Wolf v. United States Sixth Circuit 2026-02-03 Pending IFP criminal-enterprise managerial-role procedural-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines sixth-circuit substantive-reasonableness Was Wolf's sentence substantively and procedurally unreasonable due to incorrect sentencing guidelines calculation for managerial role in criminal ent…
25A859 Ulysses Lee Feagin v. Mansfield Police Department, et al. Sixth Circuit 2026-01-30 Application excessive-force party-presentation qualified-immunity sixth-circuit summary-judgment taser-use Question not identified.
25-837 Faraday Hosseinipour v. United States Sixth Circuit 2026-01-15 Pending Response Waived conspiracy intent-to-defraud mail-fraud pyramid-scheme securities-fraud sixth-circuit Whether the Government can establish a pyramid scheme by shortcutting its burden of proving conspiracy elements and intent to defraud, and whether jur…
25A814 Joshua White v. United States Sixth Circuit 2026-01-13 Application certiorari counsel-representation in-forma-pauperis procedural-extension sixth-circuit supreme-court Whether a criminal defendant is entitled to an extension of time to file a certiorari petition due to administrative challenges and potential breakdow…
25-6556 Darrell Jones v. Stephen Reynolds, Acting Warden Sixth Circuit 2026-01-13 Pending Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights federal-law habeas-corpus judicial-review sixth-circuit Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in denying a certificate of appealability when the case presented a substantial showing of a denial of a constitutiona…
25-6492 Arthur Fayne v. United States Sixth Circuit 2026-01-06 Pending Response WaivedIFP criminal-law intent misrepresentation property-obtainment sixth-circuit wire-fraud Whether the Sixth Circuit's affirmance of wire-fraud convictions conflicts with the Court's requirement of proving knowing and intentional misrepresen…
25-6491 Billy J. Wilkins v. United States Sixth Circuit 2026-01-06 Pending Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure judicial-fact-finding right-to-jury right-to-silence second-amendment sixth-circuit Whether the Sixth Circuit's ruling in United States v. Williams unconstitutionally allows judicial fact-determination that violates a defendant's righ…
25-6458 Matthew Darrel Childers v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-12-31 Pending Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance mandate-recall sixth-circuit Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in denying Petitioner's Motion to Recall the Mandate without explanation and potentially violating his right to appeal
25A746 Lento Law Group, PC v. Ladel Lewis, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-12-23 Application certiorari court-procedure petition-deadline sixth-circuit supreme-court-rules time-extension Whether the Supreme Court's rules permit a 60-day extension for filing a petition for writ of certiorari beyond the standard deadline
25A717 Marquise Graham v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-12-18 Application armed-career-criminal-act harmless-error jury-finding occasions-different sentencing-enhancement sixth-circuit Whether a district court's failure to charge and have a jury find the 'occasions different' fact under the Armed Career Criminal Act constitutes struc…
25A697 Tra'ven Boyer-Letlow v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-12-15 Application counsel-of-record criminal-conviction federal-appeal indigent-defendant petition-for-certiorari sixth-circuit Whether the district court's criminal conviction of Boyer-Letlow was procedurally sound given counsel's medical incapacitation and request for extensi…
25-6324 Craig Edward Hunnicutt, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-12-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure factual-findings self-defense sentencing-discretion sixth-circuit supervised-release Whether the Sixth Circuit improperly affirmed a supervised release violation and new law convictions based on clearly erroneous factual findings relat…
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 Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit erred in ruling the Appellant forfeited appellate review and whether the court violat…
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 …
25-6252 Wayne C. Murphy v. Shannon Butrum, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-11-26 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-default sixth-circuit Did the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit erroneously deny petitioner's habeas corpus petition by procedural default without reviewing the record…
25-6179 Benny Lee Hodge v. Laura Plappert, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-11-20 Denied IFP capital-sentence cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment equal-protection habeas-corpus sixth-circuit Did the en banc Sixth Circuit violate the Eighth Amendment's Cruel and Unusual Punishments Clause by selectively, irregularly, and arbitrarily affirmi…
25-6053 Marchello Moore v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-trial defendant-appearance fact-finder fair-trial precedential-case sixth-circuit Whether the Sixth Circuit erred by prohibiting fact-finders from considering a defendant's in-court appearance compared to photographic and video evid…
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…
25A288 Miami Township Board of Trustees v. Roger Dean Gillispie, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-09-11 Presumed Complete civil-rights constitutional-violation law-enforcement municipal-liability sixth-circuit summary-judgment Whether a municipality can be held liable for alleged constitutional violations in a civil rights lawsuit when the plaintiff claims systemic misconduc…
25-5531 In Re Omar Rashad Pouncy 2025-09-03 Denied IFP 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…
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
25-5328 Ayana Saunders v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-08-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP constructive-amendment indictment sixth-circuit trial-procedure variance venue Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in finding that the proof at trial did not result in a Constructive Amendment or Variance from the In…
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)
25-5227 Derrick Kellen Mitchell v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure district-court due-process guilty-plea plea-understanding sixth-circuit Should the Court grant certiorari to consider if the Sixth Circuit has improperly deviated from this Court's requirement, grounded in the Due Process …
25A117 Matthew Jones v. Dave Yost, Attorney General of Ohio Sixth Circuit 2025-07-28 Presumed Complete appellate-jurisdiction certificate-of-appealability federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-procedure sixth-circuit Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals improperly denied a Certificate of Appealability that would have allowed further review of a potentially me…
25-73 Ali Al-Maqablh v. Crystal Heinz, Individually and in Her Official Capacity as County Attorney of Trimble County, Kentucky, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-07-22 Denied Response Waived district-court judicial-mandate malicious-prosecution section-1983 sixth-circuit thompson-case Whether the Sixth Circuit's decision should be vacated and the case remanded with instructions to enter judgment in Petitioner's favor under 42 U.S.C.…
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 Whether the Sixth Circuit's en banc decision affirming the district court's denial of habeas corpus relief comports with federal habeas corpus standar…
24A1223 Lathfield Investments, LLC, et al. v. City of Lathrup Village, Michigan Sixth Circuit 2025-06-12 Presumed Complete constitutional-claim contracts-clause federal-court-jurisdiction section-1983 sixth-circuit statutory-remedy Whether 42 U.S.C. § 1983 provides a viable federal court mechanism for bringing a Contracts Clause claim when no other clear statutory remedy exists
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…
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…
24-7174 In Re Babubhai Patel 2025-05-12 Dismissed IFP 2255-application appellate-review habeas-corpus judicial-fraud miscarriage-of-justice sixth-circuit Whether the Sixth Circuit committed judicial fraud upon the court when denying Patel's Second or Successive 2255 Application, and does this constitute…
24-7162 Deshawn Whited v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-05-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP attempted-robbery district-court fair-trial right-to-counsel sixth-circuit uncharged-evidence Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in finding that the District Court was correct in permitting evidence of an uncharged attempted robbe…
24-7026 In Re Andre Monteek Edwards 2025-04-17 Denied IFP claim-adjudication district-court judicial-jurisdiction legal-finality sixth-circuit writ-of-mandamus Whether Edwards has a clear and indisputable entitlement to a writ of mandamus declaring the district court's failure to adjudicate the merits of his …
24-6805 Anita Hollins v. Erin Maldonado, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-03-19 Denied IFP constitutional-review criminal-procedure habeas-corpus inconsistent-verdicts sixth-circuit supreme-court-precedent Whether Dunn v. United States and United States v. Powell precedents allow habeas corpus detention based on inconsistent jury verdicts
24-6790 Saul Douglas Briggs v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause search-warrant sixth-circuit Whether the Sixth Circuit correctly applied the good faith exception to a search warrant that allegedly lacked probable cause and nexus
24-6661 Corey Dequan Broome v. James R. Scheibner, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability certiorari judicial-precedent sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation vacate-and-remand Whether the Sixth Circuit's denial of petitioner's motion for certificate of appealability deviates from the court's precedent, warranting certiorari,…
24-6346 Daniel Moore v. Misty Mackey, Acting Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-01-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights federal-law habeas-corpus sixth-circuit state-court Where the case presented a substantial showing of a denial of a constitutional right, and where the issues presented were debatable amongst jurists of…
24A694 Jonathon William-Durand Neuhard v. United States Sixth Circuit 2025-01-15 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability child-pornography habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sentencing-mitigation sixth-circuit Whether the Sixth Circuit applied the correct standard for ineffective assistance of counsel claims in denying a certificate of appealability for a ha…
24A506 Marc M. Susselman v. Washtenaw County Sheriff's Office, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-11-21 Presumed Complete civil-rights constitutional-violations law-enforcement municipal-liability qualified-immunity sixth-circuit Whether a county sheriff's office and local officials are entitled to qualified immunity when responding to a citizen's allegations of misconduct and …
24-5978 In Re Marquis Deron Heard 2024-11-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2255-motion federal-prisoner mandamus-relief pro-se-petition search-warrant sixth-circuit Whether a federal prisoner's multiple appeals of a 2255 motion and unresolved search warrant issues constitute grounds for mandamus relief
24-5979 Robert Seth Denton v. Chris Brun, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-11-15 Denied IFP exhaustion-doctrine habeas-corpus petition-review procedural-error sixth-circuit state-remedies Did the Sixth Circuit err in denying permission to appeal a § 2254 petition when no state remedies were available to exhaust?
24A479 Von Clark Davis v. Charlotte Jenkins, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-11-13 Presumed Complete constitutional-claims death-penalty habeas-corpus resentencing sixth-circuit supreme-court-precedent Whether the Sixth Circuit improperly denied habeas corpus relief by failing to fully address a defendant's constitutional claims and an intervening Su…
24-421 Cynthia Davis, Warden v. David M. Smith Sixth Circuit 2024-10-15 Denied Relisted (3) aedpa constitutional-violation due-process eyewitness-identification habeas-corpus sixth-circuit Did the Sixth Circuit exceed its powers under AEDPA in concluding that 'every fairminded jurist would agree' that the Ohio court violated the Constitu…
24-5592 Deshawn Andrew Boylan v. Michael Burgess, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-09-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP collateral-estoppel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sentencing-findings sixth-circuit trial-counsel Whether the Sixth Circuit erroneously reversed the District Court's grant of habeas relief based on trial counsel's ineffective assistance in failing …
24-5474 Lonnie W. Hubbard v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-09-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP judicial-discretion mandate-recall post-conviction-relief section-2255 sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation Whether the Sixth Circuit abused its discretion in denying a motion to recall the mandate post-Ruan v. United States, given changes in statutory inter…
24-5368 Joseph Roach v. Amy Robey, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP accomplice-liability criminal-conviction due-process jackson-v-virginia jury-unanimity sixth-circuit Whether a defendant was denied due process and a unanimous jury verdict when convicted under alternative theories of culpability and affirmed by the S…
24-5280 Willie Charles Rose v. Joseph Damron, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts first-amendment legal-documents prisoner-rights retaliation sixth-circuit Whether the Sixth Circuit erroneously denied relief for a prisoner's claim of retaliation and denial of access to courts through unlawful stripping of…
24A139 Kenneth Brown v. Robert Adams, Jr., Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-08-07 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus medical-extension pro-se-petition sixth-circuit time-limitation Whether a prisoner's medical condition and ongoing recovery from brain surgery constitute extraordinary circumstances warranting an extension of time …
24-5196 Nicholas Salfi v. Amy Robey, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-07-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP counsel-duty effective-assistance habeas-corpus Lafler-v-Cooper martinez-exception plea-negotiations prejudice procedural-default sixth-circuit Effective-assistance-of-counsel
24-73 Sherry L. Burt, et al. v. Jimmie Leon Gordon Sixth Circuit 2024-07-25 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) constitutional-rights covid-19 pandemic-response precedent prison-conditions prison-officials qualified-immunity sixth-circuit Did the Sixth Circuit improperly deny qualified immunity to prison officials based on their response to the unprecedented COVID-19 global pandemic?
24-5143 Nicholas Nassif Hayek v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-statement district-court due-process evidence motion-to-suppress procedural-error sixth-circuit standard-of-review fourth-amendment
24A68 Plumbers Local 290 Pension Trust Fund v. Root, Inc., et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-07-19 Presumed Complete business-risk disclosure-obligation initial-public-offering material-misstatement securities-act sixth-circuit Whether a securities offering document is materially misleading when it warns of a potential business risk without disclosing that the risk has alread…
24A29 Rosalind Holmes v. United States, et al. Ohio 2024-07-11 Presumed Complete conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights federal-defendants injunctive-relief pro-se-litigation sixth-circuit Whether a pro se litigant can obtain emergency injunctive relief against multiple government officials and entities for alleged constitutional rights …
23A1137 Brian Scott Witham v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-06-21 Presumed Complete federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction procedural-default sixth-circuit Whether the Sixth Circuit improperly applied procedural default rules in denying a federal habeas petitioner's post-conviction motion for relief
23-7752 Mark Edmond Brown, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-06-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver coram-nobis due-process guilty-plea miscarriage-of-justice sentence sentencing-rights sixth-circuit Whether a defendant's appeal waiver bars the filing of a coram nobis petition following full service of his sentence
23-7683 Keon Lamont Lee v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-06-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 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 IFP 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
23-7564 Ricky T. Jackson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-05-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP confidential-informant criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-hearsay due-process evidentiary-sufficiency sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment sixth-circuit Whether the Sixth Circuit's determination that uncorroborated and unreliable double hearsay statements of an unreliable confidential informant was suf…
23A1056 George Stephenson, Warden v. Lafayette Deshawn Upshaw Sixth Circuit 2024-05-28 Presumed Complete aedpa clearly-established-law habeas-corpus plurality-opinion sixth-circuit state-court-review Whether a federal court of appeals may apply a Supreme Court plurality opinion as 'clearly established law' under the Antiterrorism and Effective Deat…
23-7374 David Allen v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-05-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-phone commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation original-meaning sixth-amendment sixth-circuit speedy-trial statutory-interpretation substantial-effects-test supreme-court-precedent Whether the broad rule adopted by the Sixth Circuit, that the Commerce Clause gives congress the power to regulate all conduct incidentally using a ce…
23-1176 Sean Houston, et al. v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-05-01 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims district-court due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction sixth-circuit standing sua-sponte-dismissal subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the court of appeals and district court made erroneous judgments in sua sponte dismissing the complainant's cause of action for lack of subjec…
23-1169 Michael H. Ponder v. Hans-Peter Wild Sixth Circuit 2024-04-30 Denied appellate-review circuit-precedent contract-law contract-specificity legal-interpretation oral-agreement precedent sixth-circuit specificity standard-of-review Whether this Court should grant certiorari review where the Sixth Circuit departed from established precedent regarding the required specificity of te…
23-7304 Michael Anthony Granado v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-04-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law due-process firearms firearms-possession music-videos relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines sixth-circuit uncharged-offenses Whether district courts are misapplying the 'relevant-conduct' section of the United States Sentencing Guidelines
23-7297 Marcus Bennett v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-04-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review control controlled-substances criminal-procedure drug-house drug-house-enhancement federal-appellate-courts possessory-interest sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sixth-circuit Whether the drug-house sentencing enhancement applies with no evidence that the defendant maintained, held a possessory interest in, or otherwise cont…
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…
23A945 Clarence Mack v. Margaret Bradshaw, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-04-22 Presumed Complete capital-case certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims death-sentence habeas-corpus sixth-circuit Whether the Sixth Circuit applied the correct standard for granting habeas corpus relief in a capital case involving multiple constitutional claims
23-7276 Robert Dwayne Smith v. Amy Robey, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default sixth-amendment sixth-circuit Did the court of appeals erroneously deny petitioner's habeas corpus petition due to procedural default without reviewing the record and basing its de…
23-7206 David Eugene Matthews v. Laura Plappert, Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-04-11 Denied IFP abuse-of-the-writ abuse-of-writ aedpa equitable-powers habeas habeas-corpus initial-petition sixth-circuit successive-petition unexhausted-claim unripe-claim Does limiting second-in-time initial habeas petitions to only petitions that raise (a) a claim that was unripe when the first petition was filed, or (…
23A758 Rachael Eubanks, in Her Personal Capacity, et al. v. Dennis O'Connor Sixth Circuit 2024-02-20 Presumed Complete administrative-law certiorari michigan procedural-review sixth-circuit state-sovereignty Whether the Sixth Circuit's ruling on state administrative procedures violates principles of state sovereignty or federal administrative law
23A709 David Eugene Matthews v. Laura Plappert, Interim Warden Sixth Circuit 2024-02-01 Presumed Complete abuse-of-writ aedpa banister-doctrine habeas-corpus sixth-circuit successive-petition Whether the Sixth Circuit's standard for determining whether a second-in-time habeas petition is initial or successive conflicts with the Supreme Cour…
23-822 Nicholas Sandmann v. New York Times Company, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-01-30 Denied Response Waived 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?
23A692 Montel Westley v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-01-26 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights criminal-conviction federal-appeal in-forma-pauperis sixth-circuit writ-of-certiorari Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming a criminal conviction where the defendant claims a violation of his constitutional right…
23-6491 Peyton John Wesley Hopson v. Deborah S. Hunt Sixth Circuit 2024-01-18 Denied IFP certificate-of-good-cause certificate-of-good-faith circuit-court counsel-appointment district-court due-process jurisdiction right-to-counsel sixth-amendment sixth-circuit Did the Sixth Circuit lose jurisdiction to proceed to review where the Sixth Circuit failed to comply with the Sixth Amendment requirement to appoint …
23-6466 Edgar Lerma Flores, aka Carlos Alberto Penuelas Rodriguez, aka Carlos Alberto Pencelas Rodriguez v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3582 abuse-of-discretion extraordinary-compelling-reason extraordinary-reason guideline-ranges methamphetamine-disparity methamphetamine-purity sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reduction sixth-circuit Whether the disparity in Guideline ranges for offenses involving pure methamphetamine and those involving a mixture of methamphetamine can be consider…
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 Response Waived 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
23-684 Andrew Knapp, et al. v. Janice Brown Sixth Circuit 2023-12-26 Denied Response Waived adverse-effects-for-police clearly-established-law constitutional-rights detention law-enforcement probable-cause probable-cause-determination qualified-immunity sixth-circuit warrantless-arrest Did the Sixth Circuit err in denying qualified immunity to four police officers?
23-6339 Juan Guzman, aka Juan Villarreal-Guzman, aka Juan Guzman-Villareal, aka Victor Nava, aka Francisco Lara, aka Francisco Lara-Paramo, aka Ayala Ramoro, aka Carlos Solorio, aka Daniel Solorio, aka Flaco v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-12-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion assault-with-a-firearm criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion evidence-admission firearm-possession prior-allegation prior-bad-acts sixth-circuit Does a District Court prejudicially abuse its discretion in a firearm-possession case when it receives evidence about a prior, unrelated allegation of…
23-651 John Lowery v. Mike Parris, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-12-15 Denied actual-innocence constitutional-claims constitutional-review credibility-findings eyewitness-recantation gateway-innocence recantation sixth-circuit sixth-circuit-deference state-court-deference suppressed-evidence Whether the Sixth Circuit erroneously deferred to the state court's credibility findings on a gateway innocence claim
23-590 Bonifacio R. Aleman, et al. v. Andrew G. Beshear, Governor of Kentucky, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-12-04 Denied Response Waived discretionary-licensing discretionary-restoration expressive-conduct felony-convictions felony-disenfranchisement first-amendment sixth-circuit voting-rights Whether Kentucky's system of discretionary restoration of the right to vote to people with felony convictions violates the First Amendment doctrine pr…
23-6130 Sylvia Hofstetter v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-11-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP controlled-substances criminal-procedure jury-instructions mens-rea plain-error ruan-standard ruan-v-united-states sixth-circuit Whether the Sixth Circuit's ruling on the plain error standard is contrary to Supreme Court precedents, including Ruan and Henderson
23-6116 Cynthia Clemons v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-11-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP controlled-substances criminal-procedure jury-instruction jury-instructions mens-rea plain-error ruan-v-united-states sixth-circuit supreme-court-precedent Whether the Sixth Circuit's ruling on the plain error standard is contrary to Supreme Court precedents, including Ruan and Henderson
23-6062 Holli Womack v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offenses jury-instructions plain-error ruan-standard sixth-circuit standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent Is the Sixth Circuit's draconian view of the plain-error standard contrary to this Court's precedents, including Henderson-v-United-States?
23-6033 Darryl Smith v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio Sixth Circuit 2023-11-16 Denied IFP 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
23-6025 Deunta Finch v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-11-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure guidelines plain-error-review preservation-of-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-circuit Has the Sixth Circuit erred by creating a novel doctrine that says, to avoid plain-error review, a criminal defendant must object after the sentencing…
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…
23-5638 Adrian M. Jackson v. Clinton Canady, III, Judge, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-09-22 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights discovery due-process factual-error remand sixth-circuit vacatur whether-the-sixth-circuit-abused-its-discretion
23-5568 Boaz Pleasant-Bey v. Jason Clendenion, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-09-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 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…
23-5368 Larry Scott Reynolds v. Brian Eller, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-08-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 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?
22-7706 Johnny Taylor v. Jeff Tanner, Acting Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-06-05 Dismissed Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP complete-denial-of-counsel critical-stage evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice presumption-of-prejudice sixth-amendment sixth-circuit If an attorney's deficiency is grave enough, criminal defendants do not need to demonstrate prejudice to prove ineffective-assistance-of-counsel
22-7711 William Jon Patric Ebert v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-06-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admissibility fourth-circuit prior-bad-acts rule-404(b) rule-404b sixth-circuit united-states-v-stout Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred in affirming the district court's ruling to admit evidence of the appellant's …
22-7522 William Sim Spencer v. Joseph M. Gasper, Director, Michigan State Police Sixth Circuit 2023-05-11 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus heck-v-humphrey judicial-proceedings section-1983 sex-offender-registration sixth-circuit supervisory-power supreme-court-review Does the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals extension of the § 1983 favorable habeas corpus termination rule announced in Heck v Humphrey, 512 US 477 (199…
22-7252 Marlon McCay v. Kevin Genovese, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-04-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review merits-determination merits-review petition-denial sixth-circuit standard-of-review Did the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals err in denying the petitioner's petitions for a COA and rehearing?
22-7159 Denzel Simmons v. Mike Walczak, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-03-30 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fraud-on-court free-speech ineffective-assistance-of-counsel police-misconduct sixth-circuit QUESTION(S) PRESENTED
22-7106 Brian Keith Wells, aka B. K. Wells v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-03-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP counsel-denial criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing ineffective-assistance procedural-review role-enhancement sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment sixth-circuit substantive-reasonableness ussg-3b1.1 Whether Mr. Wells' request for new counsel should have been granted
22-6839 Michael O. Brown v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender circuit-court-precedent conspiracy conspiracy-conviction criminal-career-offender prior-convictions sentence-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sixth-circuit state-convictions Whether the court erred in failing to grant appellant relief from his sentence enhancement based upon his prior state convictions
22-6744 Michael Lee Gordon v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-procedure sixth-circuit standing supreme-court whether the Sixth Circuit Court erred in dismissing petitioner's motion as second/successive under 28 USC 2255
22-737 Brian A. Truskey v. Thomas J. Vilsack, Secretary of Agriculture Sixth Circuit 2023-02-07 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) employment employment-discrimination first-amendment religious-freedom-restoration-act sixth-circuit social-security-number tax-reporting title-vii Whether the government's requirement that an individual possess a valid Social Security Number imposes a substantial burden on Petitioner's religious …
22-710 James D. Pieron, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-01-31 Denied chapman-v-california circuit-split constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error jury-instructions sixth-circuit statute-of-limitations whether-the-sixth-circuit's-ruling-merits-summary-reversal
22-685 Jerry Wayne Wilkerson, et al. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-01-24 Denied anti-kickback-statute commission-payment controlled-substances-act healthcare-fraud objective-intent-standard pharmacy-benefit prescription-marketing sixth-circuit subjective-intent Must the government establish subjective intent to engage in unlawful conduct in order to convict a defendant of healthcare fraud and violation of the…
22-6334 Joey Faught v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law detainer due-process federal-custody interstate-agreement interstate-agreement-on-detainers notice prisoner-rights sixth-circuit Was Petitioner's letter to the U.S. District Court Clerk sufficient to invoke the Interstate Agreement on Detainers
22-6358 Bernard Thomas Edmond v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment 924(c)(3) armed-career-criminal-act due-process hobbs-act johnson-v-united-states predicate-offense residual-clause sixth-circuit Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals erroneously decided that the petitioner's predicate offense for his Sec. 924(c) is the conspiracy charge an…
22-561 Larry J. Winget, et al. v. Alter Domus, LLC Sixth Circuit 2022-12-19 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived article-iii civil-procedure creditor-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction fraudulent-transfer jurisdiction revocable-trust sixth-circuit standing trust-law will-substitute-trust Whether a federal court has jurisdiction to annul a revocable, will-substitute trust and replace it with an irrevocable trust
22-6213 In Re Mark Stinson 2022-12-02 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP appeals case-assignment civil-procedure due-process judicial-procedure procedural-error right-to-counsel rights-to-counsel sixth-circuit standing Did the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit err by denying Mark Stinson due process and violating his right to counsel?
22-6185 Brent William Bogseth v. James R. Schiebner, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-12-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus jury-verdict sixth-circuit unreasonable-evidence Was the District Court's order denying petitioner's §2254 petition legal?
22-6160 Wayland Lynn Dilts v. Mike Brown, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-11-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa aedpa-standard constitutional-violation courtroom-closure due-process public-trial public-trial-right sixth-amendment sixth-circuit weaver-v-massachusetts witness-testimony Whether the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit improperly applied Weaver v. Massachusetts and AEDPA, and whether the Michigan trial court violated…
22-6153 Vincent Johnson v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-11-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus miller-el-standard miller-el-v-cockrell procedural-due-process sixth-circuit supreme-court-review What is the correct mechanism and procedure to present a COA violation made by a Circuit court to the appellate court after Certiorari denial?
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…
22-5853 Steven Trapp v. Erica Huss, Warden, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-10-17 Denied IFP civil-rights complaint-dismissal constitutional-violation covid-19 departmental-memorandum due-process pleadings sixth-circuit standing Should the Sixth Circuit Court's dismissal of petitioner's complaint for failure to state a claim be overturned?
22-304 Frank Oswald v. Nicholas Mauer, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-09-29 Denied Response Waived 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…
22-5685 Tyrice Hill v. Neil Turner, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-09-27 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-interpretation court-access deadlines due-process inmate-legal-assistance legal-research meaningful-access prisoner-rights sixth-circuit Does the Sixth Circuit's narrow interpretation of Bounds v. Smith deny the petitioner meaningful access to the courts?
22-139 Sari Alqsous v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-08-15 Denied Response Waived charge-conference confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process hobbs-act mens-rea public-official sentencing sixth-circuit Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in analyzing ruling that Petitioner was not entitled to be present during the Charge Conference under Fed. R. Crim. P.…
22-5264 Cody Gober v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-08-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP concurrent-sentence constitutional-scrutiny criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-sentence post-conviction-relief sentencing sixth-circuit state-sentence Whether the due process rights of the Petitioner were violated
22-5211 Ian LaMonte Cormier v. Lynn E. Williams, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-07-27 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process false-accusations false-claims malicious-prosecution prisoner-complaint retaliation sixth-circuit standing Whether the district court in San Diego, California, was justified in denying the in forma pauperis status to the plaintiff-appellant
22-5058 Davel Chinn v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-07-11 Denied Relisted (5)IFP aedpa brady-claim brady-v-maryland due-process evidence-suppression materiality materiality-standard prejudice sixth-circuit supreme-court-precedent Whether a petitioner who raises a claim under Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963), must establish that they were more likely than not prejudiced by …
22-9 Whirlpool Financial Corporation, et al. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Sixth Circuit 2022-07-05 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law income-taxation internal-revenue-code regulations sixth-circuit sixth-circuit-precedent statutory-interpretation tax-court tax-law treasury-regulations Whether the divided Sixth Circuit properly held that a statute conditioned on regulations delineating its reach may be enforced without regard to thos…
21-1587 Tim Shoop, Warden v. Jeronique D. Cunningham Sixth Circuit 2022-06-23 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (6) aedpa circuit-precedent evidentiary-hearing federal-evidence-rule federal-law habeas-relief sixth-circuit state-court-ruling Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in granting habeas relief based on an alleged misapplication of its own circuit precedent
21-8047 Santiago Esquivel v. Gary Miniard, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-06-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-fairness habeas-corpus miranda-rights post-arrest-silence prosecutorial-conduct prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-circuit did-the-sixth-circuit-err-in-failing-to-find-the-district-court's-decision-on-the-prosecutor's-reference-to-petitioner's-silence-as-debatable-or-wrong
21-7800 Mark P. Donaldson and Peggy Hampel v. Nick Lyon, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-05-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process en-banc-petition judicial-procedure liberal-pleading-standard liberal-pleading-standards pro-se-pleading procedural-rules sixth-circuit sixth-circuit-rules standing Was the Sixth Circuit panel's actions in changing and discarding Peggy Hampel's en banc petition appropriate?
21-1399 Ali Al-Maqablh v. Crystal L. Heinz, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-05-02 GVR 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process favorable-termination legal-remedy malicious-prosecution section-1983 sixth-circuit standing thompson-v-clark Whether the Sixth Circuit's decision should be vacated and remanded for reconsideration in light of Thompson v. Clark
21-7735 Erskin Bernard Perryman v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal-waiver appellate-waiver base-offense-level criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review minor-participant plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines sixth-circuit Whether the trial court calculated the petitioner's guideline range correctly
21-7363 Jessie Vornell Lewis v. John Davids, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-03-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 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…
21-1128 John Turnure v. Latrent Redrick Sixth Circuit 2022-02-15 Dismissed Response Waived civil-rights due-process excessive-force qualified-immunity scott-v-harris sixth-circuit summary-judgment use-of-force Did the Sixth Circuit contravene Scott v. Harris, 550 U.S. 372 (2007) by ignoring record admissions, videos, and photographs to credit to Redrick with…
21-7076 Richard Maurival v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-02-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-trial eleventh-circuit evidentiary-inquiry juror-statements jury-deliberations peña-rodriguez-v-colorado racial-bias sixth-circuit racial-bias-in-jury-deliberations
21-6978 In Re Isaiah Harris 2022-01-27 Denied Relisted (2)IFP brady-chambers certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process exceptional-circumstances judicial-discretion mandamus sixth-circuit ultra-vires Is it clear and indisputable that clerk Hunt acted in ultra vires in denying Harris' COA, that jurists could disagree with the district court's resolu…
21-6962 Robert Eugene Plaster v. Michael Burgess, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-01-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 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?
21-6945 Johnnie W. Byrd, III v. David W. Gray, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-01-21 Denied IFP burden-of-proof certificate-of-appealability criminal-justice-system criminal-procedure due-process federal-due-process-protections federal-judicial-system food-stamps judicial-review ohio-law sixth-circuit Can the citizens of the United States have confidence in the fairness of our criminal-justice-system and its reforms if our system tolerates the total…
21-6846 Juan Jose Reynoso v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-01-13 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review mitigation-evidence prejudice sixth-circuit supervisory-power tenth-circuit trial-counsel Whether the Fifth Circuit has departed from the accepted course of judicial proceedings
21-6747 Victor Dewayne Taylor v. Scott Jordan, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-12-29 Denied IFP batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky capital-case constitutional-law habeas-corpus jury-selection peremptory-challenges race-discrimination race-neutral-reason sixth-circuit Is a prosecutor's statement that he believed he could discriminatorily remove African-American jurors from the panel as long as he left one African-Am…
21-6587 Marcus Termaine Darden v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process evidence expert-testimony gang-expert harmless-error hearsay hearsay-testimony sixth-circuit Did the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals err by holding the district court's errors in admitting police 'gang expert' and other hearsay testimony were h…
21-6285 Gary Hughbanks v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-11-17 Denied IFP admissibility-of-evidence appellate-review brady-materiality brady-v-maryland confession-evidence criminal-procedure due-process materiality-analysis sixth-circuit suppressed-evidence Are another individual's repeated statements confessing to the murders for which the defendant is on trial material for purpose of assessing the impac…
21-6193 In Re Roy Allen Nichols 2021-11-04 Denied IFP 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…
21-5537 John Creech v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-08-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-materiality brady-v-maryland conviction criminal-procedure defense-strategy disclosure due-process evidence-disclosure litigation-strategy materiality prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-circuit Is evidence material for purposes of Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963), if its disclosure would affect defense litigation strategy?
21-5533 Marsha A. Springer v. Jeremy Howard, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review reasonable-jurists sixth-circuit Is the Sixth Circuit's denial of certificate of appealability contrary to this Court's precedent?
21-5239 Kevin A. Craig v. O'Bell T. Winn, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-07-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-counsel certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review sixth-circuit sixth-circuit-court-of-appeals trial-counsel Did the sixth circuit court of appeals clearly err in its denial of petitioner's request for a certificate of appealability, when it assessed petition…
21-5216 Fredie Phillip Koryal v. Sarah Schroeder, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 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
21-5180 Eric Miguel Dowdy v. Shane Jackson, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-07-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process judicial-proceedings manifest-injustice sixth-circuit sixth-circuit-court-of-appeals supervisory-power Was petitioner denied his fundamental and constitutional right to due process
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…
21-5142 Michael Angelo Williams v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-07-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea harmless-error ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment sixth-circuit withdrawal-of-plea Whether Mr. Williams should have been permitted to withdraw his guilty plea
21-5111 Joenell L. Rice v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion post-conviction-relief sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-circuit time-served Whether the district court and court of appeals erred in imposing a harsh sentence on the petitioner without proper grounds
21-5074 Samuel Ridder v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-07-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP alleged-bias appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability forfeiture ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias merits-brief prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-circuit Did the Sixth Circuit misconstrue the Certificate of Appealability as a merits brief?
20-8376 Jay Earl Haynes v. Bert Boyd, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-06-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-circuit standard-of-review tennessee-corrections warden Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in denying the certificate of appealability?
20-8234 Arian Lamont Brown v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-06-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 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
20-1620 Joy McShan Edwards v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-05-19 Denied Response Waived 18-usc-1513 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech overbreadth overbreadth-doctrine sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation Whether the Sixth Circuit's denial of Petitioner's request for a certificate of appealability was unreasonable, where Petitioner has demonstrated a su…
20-8058 Kenneth Rose v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-05-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-protections due-process judicial-bias judicial-proceedings search-warrant sixth-circuit Has the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals so far departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings
20-1564 James M. Perna v. Health One Credit Union, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-05-11 Denied Response Waived 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
20-7943 Tyquez Ursery v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-05-05 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act attempted-burglary generic-burglary james-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation united-states-v-gloss violent-felony Does Tennessee's aggravated burglary statute qualify as a 'generic burglary' under the Armed Career Criminal Act?
20-7877 Robert Washington v. David Gomez, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-review due-process federal-statute habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-circuit strickland-v-washington Whether the United States Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying petitioner's application for a certificate of appealability
20-7823 Alan Trowbridge v. Jeffrey Woods, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review counsel-deficiency criminal-procedure federal-law habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-precedent prejudice sixth-amendment sixth-circuit strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Did the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals decide an important question of federal law in a way that conflicts with this Court's holding in Strickland v. …
20-7795 Antwan Lamar Hutchinson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-04-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-procedure competency competency-hearing criminal-procedure drope-standard due-process mental-health procedural-review sixth-circuit standard-of-review Should the Court reverse the Sixth Circuit's modified version of the three-factor legal test in Drope v. Missouri
20-7723 Dangelo Davis v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-04-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-endeavor criminal-procedure double-jeopardy drug-amount drug-charges due-process RICO sentencing sixth-circuit Did the decision of the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit err when concluding that Davis adopted the goal of furthering or facilitating the crimi…
20-7652 Lawrence L. Colton v. J. A. Terris, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-04-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure district-court due-process habeas-corpus interests-of-justice procedural-validity sixth-circuit writ-of-certiorari Whether the district court abused its discretion in determining the appropriateness of a habeas corpus petition
20-7640 Nicholas Corey Garner v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure email-search ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel presentence-report restitution search-and-seizure sentencing sixth-circuit Whether counsel was constitutionally ineffective for failing to object to presentence report and failing to raise objection to lack of restitution rec…
20-7611 Jamar Garrison v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-03-30 Denied IFP brady-rule brady-violation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discovery-obligations due-process harmless-error rule-16 sixth-circuit should-a-writ-of-certiorari-issue-to-review-the-brady-and-rule-16-due-process-violations
20-7425 Cornelius Kenyatta Craig v. Andre Matevousian, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment reasonable-doubt sixth-circuit Whether the 'same evidence' standard for double jeopardy under the Fifth Amendment is unconstitutional as applied to the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Pr…
20-7400 Drashawn Bartlett v. Anna Valentine, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 double-jeopardy felony-murder fifth-amendment harris-precedent harris-v-oklahoma robbery sixth-circuit Can the offense of robbery be included as an element in a felony murder instruction and also presented separately in a jury instruction for robbery wi…
20-7180 William Hugh Wilson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-02-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 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 Response WaivedIFP 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…
20-6852 Cindy Bauer, fka Cindy Gamrat v. Edward McBroom, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process fair-and-just-treatment fair-treatment legislative-immunity legislative-investigations-and-hearings pleading-standard pleading-standards sixth-circuit Whether Michigan's Article | § 17 affords Michigan citizens the protections of fair-and-just-treatment during legislative-investigations-and-hearings
20-6637 David Earl Brown v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-12-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act attempted-burglary generic-burglary james-v-united-states sixth-circuit tennessee-aggravated-burglary Does Tennessee's aggravated burglary statute qualify as a 'generic burglary' under the Armed Career Criminal Act?
20-6461 Juan Morris v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-11-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act attempted-burglary generic-burglary sixth-circuit tennessee-aggravated-burglary violent-felony Does Tennessee's aggravated burglary statute qualify as a 'generic burglary' under the Armed Career Criminal Act?
20-6457 Phillip Watkins v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-11-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process hybrid-representation pro-se right-to-counsel sixth-circuit standing supplemental-brief Whether the appellate court erred in denying the appellant's motion to dismiss court-appointed counsel and allow him to submit pro se supplemental bri…
20-6306 Phillip L. Gilliam v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act attempted-burglary generic-burglary sixth-circuit tennessee-aggravated-burglary violent-felony Does Tennessee's aggravated burglary statute qualify as a 'generic burglary' under the Armed Career Criminal Act?
20-6282 Darius Tirrell Thomas v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP career-offender criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation u.s.-code Whether the Trial Court Erred in Finding the Defendant to Be a 'Career Offender' and Sentencing Him Accordingly
20-6220 Tony Edwin McClurg v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-11-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act attempted-burglary attempted-entry generic-burglary sixth-circuit tennessee-aggravated-burglary Does Tennessee's aggravated burglary statute qualify as a 'generic burglary' under the Armed Career Criminal Act?
20-6120 Johnny Tippins v. NWI-1, Inc., et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process fraudulent-concealment mandate-recall miscarriage-of-justice sixth-circuit standing state-law statute-of-limitations successor-liability Should the Sixth Circuit recall its November 27, 2017 mandate in order to prevent a miscarriage of justice?
20-6083 John Oliver Wooten v. Patrick Warren, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-10-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP deference factual-error federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus habeas-review sixth-amendment sixth-circuit standard-of-review state-court state-courts Is a state court decision entitled to deference on federal habeas review if it is undisputed that the state court applied the wrong standard of review…
20-507 Tony Mays, Warden v. Anthony Darrell Dugard Hines Sixth Circuit 2020-10-16 Judgment Issued Relisted (4) antiterrorism-act antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act capital-trial death-penalty habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-circuit sixth-circuit-review strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the Sixth Circuit's decision conflicts with the Court's precedents governing claims of ineffective assistance of counsel under the Antiterrori…
20-6009 Lamar Thornton v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-10-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 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
20-5956 Tracy Lynn Cope v. Randy Lee, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-10-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa aedpa-standard brady-v-maryland brady-violation confidential-informant criminal-trial due-process prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-circuit sixth-circuit-review Whether the Sixth Circuit's property applied the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (AEDPA) in denying Petition relief where in the…
20-5934 Thomas Holden v. Sherry L. Burt, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-10-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure conflict-with-supreme-court constitutional-review due-process federal-law ineffective-assistance premeditated-intent right-to-counsel sixth-amendment sixth-circuit strickland-standard trial-court-error Whether a United States Court of Appeal's has decided an important question of federal law that conflicts with relevant decisions of this Court
20-5890 Willie R. Benton, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-10-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy due-process mistake-of-fact relevant-conduct sentencing sixth-circuit Is a criminal defendant denied Due Process of Law when the sentencing Court in a drug conspiracy case determines that a quantity of a substance should…
20-5717 William Bradner v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-09-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-justice-system due-process government-breach plea-agreement plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-level sixth-circuit Whether the government breaches the bargain of a plea agreement by requesting a minimum sentencing level fifteen years longer than what it had explici…
20-5664 Marcus Hanserd v. Tony Trierweiler, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-09-11 Denied IFP civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel relate-back relate-back-doctrine rule-15c sixth-circuit sixth-circuit-court-of-appeals standard-of-review Is there a conflict among the circuits as to the proper standard of review for Federal Rules Civil Procedure Rule 15(c), relate-back provision; does p…
20-5560 Briand Daniel Fechner v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-09-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-pornography criminal-procedure due-process eighth-circuit evidence evidentiary-rules propensity-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct search-and-seizure sixth-circuit Whether the prosecution may introduce child pornography videos at trial that were not found on the defendant's devices, but found in an outside invest…
20-182 Rita Stanback, et al. v. Ginny Humphrey, as Parent and Legal Guardian of Minor Child, O. H., et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-08-19 Denied civil-rights clearly-established-law due-process law-enforcement police-investigation qualified-immunity sexual-misconduct sixth-circuit supervisory-liability takings Whether the Sixth Circuit contradicted a fundamental principle of this Court's qualified immunity precedent
20-5412 Kenneth T. Bluew v. Connie Horton, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-08-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability due-process factual-record habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-review sixth-circuit Whether the petitioner should be granted a certificate of appealability on his claims of ineffective assistance of trial counsel where he has not been…
20-5271 Toshi Edward Willingham v. Catherine S. Bauman, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-08-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights district-court due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review sixth-circuit Whether the lower courts erroneously denied a certificate of appealability in a habeas corpus case
20-5099 Lantrel DeKeith Wilson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-07-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 6th-circuit consent-search consent-to-search criminal-procedure inevitable-discovery motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure sixth-circuit supreme-court-precedent terry-stop Whether the decision of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals conflicts with Terry-v-Ohio
20-5057 Ledinson Chavez v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-07-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP advance-knowledge aggravated-identity-theft aiding-and-abetting criminal-law identity-theft jury-instruction knowledge-requirement rosemond-v-united-states sixth-circuit supreme-court-mandate Did the trial court's jury instruction on aiding and abetting aggravated identity theft comply with this Court's mandate in Rosemond v. United States?
20-5001 Mark Norris v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-07-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act attempted-burglary burglary-statute criminal-sentencing entry-definition generic-burglary sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation tennessee-burglary-statute violent-felony Does Tennessee's burglary statute qualify as a 'generic burglary' under the Armed Career Criminal Act?
19-8821 Jose Santiago-Ortiz v. United States Second Circuit 2020-06-25 Denied IFP -criminal-organization -federal-criminal-law -murder-statute -organizational-intent -substantive-nexus #NAME? criminal-organization federal-criminal-offenses murder second-circuit sixth-circuit substantive-nexus Whether federal criminal offenses that include a substantive nexus between a charged murder and the defendant's alleged involvement in a criminal orga…
19-8698 Neal Scott Stone v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-06-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-split drug-trafficking due-process entrapment-defense habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel police-informant sixth-circuit whether-the-sixth-circuit's-amended-order-conflicts-with-lozada-v-deeds
19-1364 Heather Henry, et vir v. CMBB, LLC Sixth Circuit 2020-06-12 Denied Response Waived certification civil-procedure common-law district-court intentional-injury intentional-tort preemption sixth-circuit standing statutory-interpretation tennessee-law workers-compensation Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in affirming the decision that Petitioners' claim is barred by Tennessee Code Annotated § 50-6-108(a) and the common l…
19-8521 Aaron Daniels v. Jack Kowalski, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-05-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP amadeo-v-zant amended-claims habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lesser-included-offense procedural-default sixth-circuit strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the Sixth Circuit's reasoning concerning the petitioner's attempt to get new counsel assigned during trial is flawed
19-8335 Mitchell Willoughby v. Deedra Hart, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-04-22 Denied IFP caldwell-precedent capital-sentencing closing-argument death-penalty jury jury-instructions prosecutor prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-circuit state-law voir-dire Did the Sixth Circuit panel misunderstand or frustrate the purpose behind this court's holding in Caldwell v. Mississippi
19-1227 Judith Kerns, et al. v. Caterpillar, Inc. Sixth Circuit 2020-04-17 Denied Response Waived collective-bargaining collectively-bargained-agreements contract-interpretation durational-clause ERISA healthcare-benefits m-and-g-polymers M&G-Polymers-v-Tackett retiree-benefits sixth-circuit surviving-spouse vesting Did the Sixth Circuit misapply M&G Polymers USA, LLC v. Tackett and related cases to find that Group 2 surviving spouses have no right to healthcare b…
19-8023 Tom Eli Orr v. Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-03-18 Denied IFP 42-U.S.C.-section 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process pro-se pro-se-pleading procedural-due-process sixth-circuit standing Has Mr. Orr been afforded procedural due process under the Constitution?
19-8030 Robbie Shane Bateman v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act attempted-burglary burglary criminal-statute entry entry-definition generic-burglary sentencing-enhancement sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation tennessee-law Whether Tennessee aggravated burglary qualifies as a generic burglary under the Armed Career Criminal Act
19-7955 Philip Berryman v. Randall Haas, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-03-11 Denied IFP circuit-conflict circuit-split constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection exhaustion exhaustion-doctrine exhaustion-of-remedies grievance-process precedent prison-litigation sixth-circuit stare-decisis Is the Sixth Circuit required to adhere to precedent under stare decisis when ruling on the same issue that has been ruled upon by the Sixth Circuit, …
19-1079 M.W. Watermark, LLC, et al. v. Evoqua Water Technologies, LLC Sixth Circuit 2020-03-03 Denied civil-rights consent-decree contract-assignment contract-law due-process federal-court four-corners injunction injunctive-relief sixth-circuit standing Does a person or entity lack standing to enforce a federal court's consent decree that includes an injunction if it was not a party to the original co…
19-7599 Tracey Smith-Kilpatrick v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP business-records confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington evidence-rule federal-rule-of-evidence-803(6) federal-rules-of-evidence government-use hearsay hearsay-exception record-reliability sixth-circuit testimonial-statement testimonial-statements Whether business records qualify as inadmissible hearsay
19-926 Kim Davis v. David Ermold, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-01-24 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (9) ashcroft-v-al-kidd civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process obergefell-v-hodges qualified-immunity religious-freedom same-sex-marriage sixth-circuit zablocki-v-redhail Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in its analysis of the right-to-marry for same-sex couples
19-7324 Lonnie Greer, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-01-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-procedure different-occasions generic-burglary recklessness sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-judge sixth-amendment sixth-circuit sixth-circuit-precedent statutory-interpretation Whether Tennessee aggravated burglary qualifies as 'generic burglary' under the Armed Career Criminal Act
19-7074 Victor J. Stitt, II v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-12-27 Denied IFP armed-career-criminal-act burglary criminal-sentencing generic-burglary rehaif rehaif-standard sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent tennessee-law Whether the Court should grant certiorari, vacate the judgment below, and remand for reconsideration in light of Rehaif v. United States
19-6985 Boaz Pleasant-Bey v. Shelby County, Tennessee, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appropriate-relief circuit-court-conflict first-amendment-free-exercise inmate-led-religious-services inmate-rights qualified-immunity rluipa rluipa-appropriate-relief-clause sixth-circuit trial-on-merits trial-on-the-merits Whether RLUIPA's 'appropriate relief' clause encompasses the requested relief of a trial on the merits
19-6968 Brian David Brumbach v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-12-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act burglary categorical-approach criminal-sentencing entry-by-instrument entry-requirement generic-burglary sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation tennessee-law Whether Tennessee aggravated burglary qualifies as generic burglary under the Armed Career Criminal Act
19-6863 In Re Melvin Bonnell 2019-12-05 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-law due-process federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus retroactive-application retroactivity sixth-circuit state-court-decisions teague-doctrine teague-standard Whether a state court's merits decision applying a new rule of constitutional law opens up federal review
19-642 Shawntele Cortez Jackson v. Kathy Litteral Sixth Circuit 2019-11-19 Denied Response Waived brecht-standard chapman-standard esparza-standard habeas-corpus habeas-review harmless-error self-defense sixth-circuit Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in applying the Esparza harmless error standard, instead of the Brecht harmless error standard on federal habeas revie…
19-609 Erin J. Shepherd, et al. v. Angela Studdard Sixth Circuit 2019-11-12 Denied Relisted (3) 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct qualified-immunity sixth-circuit summary-judgment use-of-force Whether police officers are entitled to qualified immunity for shooting a knife-wielding suspect on open ground based on a case involving a shooting-t…
19-6316 James Matthew Shelton v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-10-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability competency-evaluation competency-to-stand-trial evidentiary-hearing habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion sixth-amendment sixth-circuit Whether the lower court erred in denying Shelton's habeas claim alleging ineffective assistance of counsel and abused its discretion in denying him an…
19-480 John Hankins, et al. v. Barry Seifman, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-10-10 Denied Response Waived attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights contract contract-law court-decisions due-process federalism judicial-overreach jurisdiction legal-jurisdiction michigan-law public-policy res-judicata sixth-circuit state-law Can the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals violate settled Michigan law, Sixth Circuit and U.S. Supreme court decisions and/or make Michigan law?
19-6166 Sean Lee Strandberg v. Carmen Denise Palmer, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-10-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure defense-mechanism due-process evidence evidence-conflict judicial-proceedings polygraph polygraph-evidence presumed-land sixth-amendment sixth-circuit state-lien strickland-v-washington united-states-supreme-court washington-v-hovey Whether the Sixth Circuit's decision on the important matter of whether the prosecutor's use of polygraph evidence conflicts with or departs from acce…
19-6176 Christopher Harris v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-10-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law due-process evidence murder pecuniary-gain rico rico-enterprise sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation vcar vcar-offense Should a Writ of Certiorari Issue Because the Sixth Circuit Ignored the Uncontroverted Evidence and its own Analysis of the VCAR Motives to Conclude t…
19-6189 Lewis Brown v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-10-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure clear-error due-process judicial-bias judicial-discretion judicial-misconduct pro-se-litigation sixth-circuit standing structural-error Did the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals abuse its discretion when it committed clear error of judgment, by relying on clearly erroneous findings of fac…
19-5945 Timothy Eugene Sampson v. Cathy M. Garrett, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-09-16 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-appeals habeas-corpus judicial-review pleading-standards procedural-dismissal sixth-amendment sixth-circuit standing Whether the district court erred in dismissing the petitioner's complaint for failure to state a claim under the heightened Twombly/Iqbal pleading sta…
19-5868 William Charles Burgess v. Chuck Bowers, Jr., et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-09-09 Denied IFP 4th-amendment circuit-court circuit-court-review criminal-procedure district-court district-court-finding district-court-findings expectation-of-privacy legal-precedent precedent prior-decisions search-and-seizure sixth-circuit Whether the Sixth Circuit Court improperly reversed the District Court's finding that Petitioner had an expectation of privacy in and around his busin…
19-5874 David Kirkland v. United States Third Circuit 2019-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP acceptance-of-responsibility constitutional-claim evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining prejudice sentencing-reduction sixth-circuit strickland-standard third-circuit trial Whether the petitioner's attorney was ineffective for withholding information
19-5498 Qwindel Jerome Page v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights habeas-corpus jurists-of-reason procedural-review sixth-circuit standard-of-review standards-of-review Whether the district court and the sixth circuit court of appeals erred in denying the petitioner a certificate of appealability
19-5376 Alan Lewis Doering v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process standing takings confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence sixth-amendment sixth-circuit Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in its interpretation of the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment
19-115 Frank J. Lawrence, Jr. v. United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan Sixth Circuit 2019-07-24 Denied Response Waived 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…
19-5215 Lowrell Neal v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2255-motion appellate-review circuit-court clearly-erroneous criminal-procedure habeas-corpus law-of-the-case manifest-injustice procedural-error sixth-circuit Did the Sixth Circuit err by holding the district court properly applied the law-of-the-case to an issue presented in 2255 motion when prior appellate…
19-5257 In Re Vincent Johnson 2019-07-19 Denied IFP appeals appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-procedure-rules-60-b-6 clerk clerk-filing due-process federal-appeals federal-courts judicial-procedure jurisdiction motion motion-for-relief relief-sought rule-60-motion sixth-circuit standing Whether the clerk for the Sixth Circuit Debbrah Hunt should be order to file movant's R. 60(b)(6) motion
19-4 Jackson National Life Insurance Company v. Tamarin Lindenburg, Individually and as Natural Guardian of Her Minor Children ZTL and SML Sixth Circuit 2019-06-28 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) certification consistent-application-of-state-law constitutional-interpretation cooperative-federalism judicial-efficiency sixth-circuit state-law tennessee-constitution tennessee-supreme-court Do principles of cooperative federalism, judicial efficiency, and concern for the consistent application of state law compel the Sixth Circuit to cert…
18A1365 Juaquene Solomon v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-06-26 Presumed Complete career-offender controlled-substance judicial-discretion plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines sixth-circuit Whether a district court's career offender determination under the United States Sentencing Guidelines constitutes an improper judicial enhancement of…
18-9659 In Re Quisi Bryan 2019-06-13 Denied IFP constitutional-law death-penalty federal-review habeas-corpus hurst-claim hurst-v-florida jury-determination jury-trial retroactive-application retroactivity sixth-amendment sixth-circuit Whether the Ohio Supreme Court's merits denial of Bryan's Hurst claim was erroneous insofar as appellate reweighing cannot cure the errors that affect…
18-9443 Arthur L. Campbell v. Sherman Campbell, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-05-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction miller-el-v-cockrell procedural-error sixth-circuit standard-of-review statute-of-limitations Whether the Sixth Circuit committed plain error in considering the merits of Campbell's appeal without issuing a certificate of appealability first
18-9420 Le'Ardrus Burris v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-05-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law criminal-statute divisibility divisibility-analysis felonious-assault mathis-precedent mathis-v-united-states ohio-law ohio-revised-code-2903a sixth-circuit state-v-harris statutory-interpretation Whether the Sixth Circuit's divisibility analysis ignores this Court's decision in Mathis v. United States and Ohio Supreme Court precedent in State v…
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 Response WaivedIFP 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 Response WaivedIFP 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…
18-8937 Michael P. Johnson v. Mark Hooks, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-constitutional-right federal-constitutional-rights federal-court-rulings habeas-corpus similar-facts sixth-circuit state-court-proceeding Whether a state habeas petitioner may satisfy his burden under 28 U.S.C. §2253(c)(2) of making a substantial showing of a denial of a federal constitu…
18-8923 Ryan Watkins v. Norm Robinson, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appeals-court criminal-procedure district-court due-process federal-courts federal-law habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief re-sentencing sentencing sixth-amendment sixth-circuit successive-petition Whether Petitioner was entitled to present his claims after re-sentencing to the United States District Court of appeals
18-8891 Warner Bernard Crider v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-04-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP §-2255 buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus merits-review procedural-review sixth-circuit Was Crider denied a COA improperly, where the Sixth Circuit's decision is contrary to Buck v. Davis?
18-8898 Melinda J. Campbell v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-04-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law criminal-prosecution economic-harm hobbs-act hobbs-act,economic-harm,criminal-law,mens-rea,prec mens-rea precedent sixth-circuit supreme-court-precedent wrongful-conduct Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals disregarded this Court's established precedent set forth in United States v. Enmons, 410 U.S. 396 (1973), a…
18-1305 Timothy O'Neill v. Unum Life Insurance Company of America Sixth Circuit 2019-04-16 Denied Response Waived 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 Response Waived 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…
18-1270 Henry M. Jagos, et ux. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Sixth Circuit 2019-04-03 Denied Response Waived administrative-law administrative-procedure circuit-court-split circuit-split civil-procedure due-process eighth-circuit judicial-review jurisdiction notice-of-deficiency sixth-circuit standing tax-appeals tax-court tax-court-jurisdiction tax-procedure Did the Tax Court lack jurisdiction when it had no facially legitimate notice of deficiency?
18-8647 Amilcar C. Butler v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP binding-authority circuit-court civil-procedure dicta judicial-precedent law-of-case law-of-the-case panel-opinion precedent sixth-circuit Is The Dicta Of A Prior Sixth Circuit Panel Opinion Law Of The Case And Remain Binding On Any Other Panel, Despite Error?
18-8621 Roummel Ingram v. John Prelesnik, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-03-29 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel public-trial sixth-amendment sixth-circuit Whether Mr. Ingram is entitled to a new trial due to ineffective-assistance-of-counsel
18-8560 Hakeem Sultaana v. Chae Harris, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction fact-claims habeas-corpus jurisdiction-powers-28-usc-1291 jurisdictional-powers pending pending-case publication sixth-circuit u.s.c.-section-1291 void-order Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals can ignore its jurisdiction powers under Title 28 U.S.C. §1291 and file a void order on October 31, 2018 wi…
18-8463 Douglas A. Dyer v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 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…
18-8416 Patrick Neil Kinney v. Connie Horton, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-03-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability certificate-of-appealability-28-usc-2253 circuit-split conditions-of-confinement due-process habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-2241,due-process,circuit-split,certi habeas-corpus-28-usc-2241 liberty-interest prison-conditions prison-misconduct property-interest sixth-circuit Whether claims by prisoners challenging their conditions of confinement are cognizable in habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. 2241
18-8259 Nickie Thomas Gray, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-03-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-rights debatable-standard due-process fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurist-of-reason law-enforcement sixth-amendment sixth-circuit Was the Sixth Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability erroneous?
18-8131 Adelfo Pamatmat v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights drug-quantity evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance procedural-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment sixth-circuit strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-counsel whether-petitioner-received-effective-assistance-of-counsel
18-1082 Marianne Guzall v. City of Romulus, Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied Response Waived 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…
18-8048 Darnell D. Owens v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-interpretation criminal-history due-process federal-law historical-practice judicial-discretion propensity-evidence sixth-amendment sixth-circuit supervised-release Whether the Due Process Clause permits a judge or factfinder to rely on a person's criminal history to conclude that he or she likely committed anothe…
18-1078 James Dawson, et al. v. Joshua Brennan Sixth Circuit 2019-02-19 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (9) 4th-amendment circuit-split curtilage fourth-amendment law-enforcement probation probation-condition probation-conditions search-and-seizure sixth-circuit Sixth Circuit misapplied Supreme Court precedent on Fourth Amendment curtilage, creating circuit split
18-7935 Kahri Smith v. Bonita J. Hoffner, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-02-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP certiorari criminal-procedure felony jurisdiction michigan-law reasonable-jurists self-defense sixth-circuit Is certiorari appropriate where the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals decided the merits of petitioner's self-defense claim without jurisdiction and is i…
18-7929 Robert L. Burns, Jr. v. Tim Shoop, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability circuit-court circuit-court-conflict civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-error sixth-circuit standing united-states-supreme-court Are the sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in conflict with the United States Supreme Court, and other Circuit Courts by denning a Certificate of Appealab…
18-7872 Steven Torres v. Randee Rewerts, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-02-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 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…
18-7810 James Traxler v. Sherry Burt, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits-analysis merits-review sixth-circuit strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Whether the Sixth Circuit's inquiry in denying petitioner's motion for certificate of appealability was coextensive with a merits analysis
18-7678 Alfonso Hernandez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP client-attorney-relationship client-autonomy constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance motion-to-dismiss sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right-to-counsel sixth-circuit speedy-trial-act trial-counsel Can a defense lawyer, consistent with the Sixth Amendment, contravene his client's wishes to object to a violation of the Speedy Trial Act?
18-7600 Johnathan Holt v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-procedure custody custody-analysis interrogation law-enforcement-interrogation miranda-custody miranda-v-arizona objective-analysis personal-mobility sixth-circuit sixth-circuit-interpretation totality-of-circumstances Whether a court must evaluate all of the circumstances surrounding the interrogation, including a lack of personal mobility, when deciding whether a p…
18-7389 Scott Smith v. Shane Jackson, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-amendment appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts judicial-proceedings manifest-injustice sixth-circuit supervisory-power Was petitioner denied his fundamental and constitutional right to due process?
18-7390 Martin R. Stancik v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appeal-waiver circuit-split constitutional-error constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process sentencing sixth-circuit waiver Whether a criminal defendant's waiver of his right to appeal a sentence includes a waiver of the right to appeal a later, unforeseen constitutional du…
18-7354 Derrick L. Johnson v. Charles Bradley, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure due-process federal-magistrate-act magistrate-judge notice procedural-rules service service-of-process sixth-circuit supervisory-power Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals failed to exercise its supervisory power to establish a rule that precludes a United States District Magist…
18-7282 Benjamin Edward Henry Bradley v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure drug-quantity due-process factual-findings objection presentence-report sentencing sixth-circuit Did the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals err in affirming the district court's sentencing judgment where the district court adopted the Presentence Repo…
18-7216 Jason Duhamel v. Michelle Miller, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-01-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 8th-amendment affidavit appellate-review buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights death-penalty declaration due-process habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis intellectual-disability miller-el-standard poverty redress sixth-circuit threshold-merits Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment prohibits the execution of a prisoner who was intellectually disabled at th…
18-7149 Mary Danielak v. Shawn Brewer, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-12-26 Denied IFP 28-usc-2254 circuit-split due-process federal-court federal-court-review habeas-review habeas-review-28-usc-2254-d-1 sixth-circuit state-court-opinion statutory-interpretation summary-reversal supreme-court-precedent wilson-v-sellers Did the Sixth Circuit err by applying the pre-Wilson 'could-have-reasoned' approach—which blatantly disregarded Wilson and created a split with other …
18-7127 Christopher French v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-burglary armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-court-review divisibility non-generic-crime sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation tennessee-burglary-statute Can a Tennessee Aggravated Burglary conviction serve as an armed Career Criminal Act predicate?
18-6957 Hakeem Sultaana v. Chae Harris, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction fact-claims habeas-corpus jurisdiction-powers-28-usc-1291 jurisdictional-powers pending pending-case publication sixth-circuit u.s.c.-section-1291 void-order Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals can ignore its jurisdiction powers under Title 28 U.S.C. §1291 and file a void order on August 20, 2018 wit…
18-708 Robert L. Bertram, Jr., Bryan S. Wood, Robin G. Peavler, James W. Bottom, and Brian C. Walters v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-11-30 Denied Response Waived common-sense criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process duty fraud insurance insurance-fraud materiality sixth-circuit Did the court unlawfully affirm convictions on a negligence theory?
18-6761 Tellis T. Williams v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP advisory-sentencing-guidelines beckles-v-united-states career-offender-enhancement certificate-of-appealability certificate-of-appealability-coa due-process johnson-claim johnson-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines sixth-circuit vagueness-challenge Whether the Sixth Circuit's denial of Petitioner's COA was based on the merits of the appeal rather than whether reasonable jurists could debate the d…
18-639 Marek Biszczanik v. Nationstar Mortgage, LLC, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-11-16 Denied Response Waived 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…
18-6403 Chester Larvell Starnes, Jr. v. Shane Jackson, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-10-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 6th-circuit appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process judicial-proceedings manifest-injustice sixth-circuit supervisory-power Was petitioner denied his fundamental and constitutional right to due process?
18-6408 Tiffany A. Prince v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law drug-offenses drug-overdose federal-courts federal-law physical-injury sentencing-guidelines significant-physical-injury sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation Whether a non-fatal drug overdose is a 'significant physical injury' under U.S.S.G. § 5K2.2
18-6193 Kenneth A. White v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus jurisdiction sixth-circuit Did the District Court err in failing to grant Mr. White a Certificate of Appealability on his Fifth Amendment argument?
18-6171 Dion Terry Taylor v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-10-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review district-court-discretion district-court-proceedings inter-circuit-inconsistency pinney-dock proof-standard sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-circuit sixth-circuit-standard standard-of-proof standard-of-review u-s-sentencing-guidelines u.s.s.g.-§5k2.1 unraised-claims Whether the Sixth Circuit's 'Pinney Dock' standard for reviewing unraised claims should be clarified
18-6117 Josette Buendia v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-09-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP arthur-anderson bribery-statute circuit-split corrupt-intent criminal-intent federal-bribery-statute judicial-precedent school-vendor sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation united-states-v-rooney Whether the Sixth Circuit departed from this Court's decision in Arthur Anderson and conflicted with the Second Circuit's decision in Rooney when it h…
18-6010 Babubhai Patel v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-jurisdiction buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction miller-el-v-cockrell sixth-circuit standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent Did the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals sidestep the COA process in Petitioner Babubhai Patel's COA Application
18-5845 David L. Pierce v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-08-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review order procedural-default sixth-circuit standing Did the Sixth Circuit Court Of Appeals err when it denied petitoner a Certificate of Appealability based upon their 'ORDER'
18-5839 James Frederick Rebmann v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law drug-offense drug-offenses federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines felony-classification plain-reading possession-offenses prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing-guidelines sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation Whether the plain reading of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines requires that the prior offense be more than simple possession
18-5769 Edward Smith v. LaShann Eppinger, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-08-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP affidavit-of-indigence anti-terrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-proceed rule-60(b) sixth-amendment sixth-circuit standard-of-review standing Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in denying petitioner's habeas corpus petition challenging his conviction and sentence under the Antiterrorism and Eff…
18-5666 Arthur Dennison v. Mark Hooks, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-08-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2254 certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-habeas-corpus federal-jurisdiction federal-review habeas-corpus sixth-circuit sixth-circuit-court-of-appeals state-prisoner statutory-interpretation Did the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals err in denying a certificate of appealability to state prisoner Arthur Dennison to challenge the denial of his …
18-5493 Maceo Gant v. Thomas Winn, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-08-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability district-court district-court-decision due-process federal-jurisdiction final-judgment habeas-corpus jurisdiction plea-bargain plea-conviction sixth-circuit state-court-conviction unresolved-claims Whether the Sixth Circuit had jurisdiction to consider the petitioner's unresolved challenges to his state court plea conviction where the district co…
18-5417 David Hardy v. William Adams, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-07-31 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP article-vi civil-procedure civil-rights constitution constitutional-duty due-process judicial-bias judicial-conduct legal-precedent rule-10 sixth-circuit sixth-circuit-court-of-appeals standing supreme-court Do federal judges have a constitutional duty to uphold the U.S. Constitution, via the mandate language of Article VI of same Constitution?
18A100 Dion Terry Taylor v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-07-27 Presumed Complete certiorari extension-of-time jurisdiction petition sixth-circuit supreme-court Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in its decision regarding Mr. Dion Taylor's case and if the lower court's ruling warrants Supreme Cou…
18-5090 Quonshay Douglas-Ricardo Mason v. DeWayne Burton, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-07-02 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP aedpa cumulative-error due-process habeas-corpus judicial-bias judicial-misconduct offutt-v-united-states sixth-circuit standard-of-review state-court-adjudication ungar-v-sarafite Whether the Sixth Circuit applied the wrong legal standard in evaluating the petitioner's judicial misconduct claim
18A10 Quonshay Douglas-Ricardo Mason v. DeWayne Burton Sixth Circuit 2018-06-29 Presumed Complete certiorari legal-research prisoner-rights pro-se sixth-circuit time-extension Whether a pro se prisoner's inability to access legal research materials and challenges with counsel constitute sufficient grounds for an extension of…
24A419 Cynthia Davis, Warden v. David M. Smith Sixth Circuit Presumed Complete criminal-conviction federal-review habeas-corpus mandate sixth-circuit state-court Whether the Sixth Circuit improperly interpreted federal habeas corpus standards for reviewing state court criminal convictions