michigan-law

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25-88 Delco LLC, dba Delco Products v. Leviathan Group LLC Sixth Circuit 2025-07-23 Denied arbitration-award attorney-fees circuit-court-review contract-breach contract-deliverables michigan-law 1. Whether the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ("Sixth Circuit") erred by not remanding to the District Court to order Leviathan to pro…
23-6014 Curtis Conway Bailey v. Bryan Morrison, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-11-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-sexual-conduct direct-appeal due-process immutable-fact ineffective-assistance-counsel judicial-notice mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence michigan-law sentencing Whether a trial court can find the fact of a defendant's age as an element of the offense of first-degree criminal sexual conduct under Michigan law
22-7830 Steven Nicholson v. Noah Nagy, Warden Sixth Circuit 2023-06-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 6th-circuit constitutional-rights diminished-capacity due-process federal-circuit-courts michigan-law rule-of-law voluntary-intoxication Does the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals position to acquiesce to MCL 768.37 by not interfering with Michigan's jurisdiction conflict with how multiple U…
22-7072 Montoyya Sims v. Fox Ridge Apartments Michigan 2023-03-22 Denied IFP civil-procedure claim-transfer court-of-claims due-process judicial-review jurisdiction michigan-law procedural-rules removal standing supreme-court-procedure transfer Whether the United States Supreme Court should vacate the Michigan Supreme Court's order and transfer the individual claim to the Michigan Court of Cl…
20-8018 Deshaun Tisdale v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-05-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP assault assault-with-dangerous-weapon common-law-self-defense criminal-law firearms-offense jury-instruction michigan-common-law michigan-law racketeering racketeering-conspiracy self-defense use-of-firearm Whether the Petitioner should have been permitted a common law self-defense jury instruction in a racketeering conspiracy case involving convictions f…
19-1358 Michigan v. William Larenzo Shoulders Michigan 2020-06-11 Denied Response Waived alleyne-v-us criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing indeterminate-sentencing jury-determination jury-trial michigan-law michigan-supreme-court parole parole-eligibility sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment requires a state to impanel a jury to determine the offense-related facts which establish a criminal defendant's earliest …
19-6534 Saad Bahoda v. Sherman Campbell, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure Bunkley-v-Florida conflict-of-interest effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-hearing forged-affidavits ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions michigan-law People-v-Triplett plain-error self-defense sixth-amendment witness-conflict Whether petitioner was denied his Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel at trial
19-6349 Jarvas Jovon Brinkley v. Randee Rewerts, Warden Michigan 2019-10-23 Denied IFP appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lafler-v-cooper michigan-law sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington Does the decisions below conflict with the decisions of other U.S. circuit courts of appeals and state appellate courts, and misapply this court's dec…
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?
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…
18-6398 Deon Pittman v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-statute drug-offense element-of-offense federal-law means-of-offense michigan-law sentencing-guidelines state-law state-statute Whether the specific type of controlled substance is an element of the offense or one of many means to commit the offense under a state statute that p…
18-5336 Ventron Vaneke Lott v. Patrick Warren, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion michigan-law sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment Whether the trial court erred in sentencing the petitioner under the restrictions of OV-1 and OV-2 of the Michigan Sentencing Guidelines in violation …