rule-6(e)

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
19-1328 Department of Justice v. House Committee on the Judiciary District of Columbia 2020-06-01 Judgment Issued Amici (1)Relisted (2) criminal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure grand-jury impeachment impeachment-trial judicial-proceeding legislative-body rule-6(e) rule-interpretation Whether an impeachment trial before a legislative body is a 'judicial proceeding' under Rule 6(e)(3)(E)(i) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure
19-307 Stuart A. McKeever v. William P. Barr, Attorney General District of Columbia 2019-09-05 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2) disclosure district-court-authority grand-jury grand-jury-secrecy historical-significance historically-significant inherent-authority judicial-discretion public-interest rule-6(e) rule-6e Whether district courts have inherent authority to release grand jury materials in extraordinary circumstances
19-5240 James Butler v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan Sixth Circuit 2019-07-18 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion actual-innocence civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act district-court-discretion due-process equity equity-jurisdiction fraud-on-the-court government-misconduct grand-jury rule-6(e) rule-6e-violation Did the district court abuse its discretion when it filed suit in equity under civil law docket
18-1393 William T. Walters v. United States Second Circuit 2019-05-07 Denied criminal-procedure evidentiary-hearing grand-jury-secrecy presumption-of-prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct rule-6(e) rule-6e-violation structural-error Whether systematic and pervasive government misconduct that violates Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 6(e) is structural error giving rise to a pres…