rule-60(b)(6)

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23-1259 BLOM Bank SAL v. Michal Honickman, et al. Second Circuit 2024-06-03 Judgment Issued Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) amendment-standard civil-procedure district-court extraordinary-circumstances federal-rules-of-civil-procedure finality-of-judgments judgment-finality rule-15(a) rule-60(b)(6) second-circuit Whether Rule 60(b)(6)'s stringent standard applies to a post-judgment request to vacate for the purpose of filing an amended complaint
23-1206 Elite IT Partners, Inc., dba Elite IT Home, et al. v. Federal Trade Commission Tenth Circuit 2024-05-09 Denied change-in-law civil-procedure consent-judgment decisional-law equitable-monetary-relief equitable-relief federal-trade-commission injunctive-relief rule-60(b)(6) Whether Rule-60(b)(6) relief based on a post-judgment change in decisional law is categorically unavailable
23-6639 Omar Sierre Folk v. United States Third Circuit 2024-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP cert-denial civil-procedure extraordinary-circumstances judicial-decision legal-standard procedural-ruling rule-60(b)(1) rule-60(b)(6) rule-60b supreme-court-rule Whether Lower Court Misapplied Cert. Denial On 10/5/15 Was A Judicial decision Rendered Erroneous By Subsequent Legal Or Factual Changes Also Qualifie…
23-704 Hi-Tech Pharmaceuticals, Inc., et al. v. Federal Trade Commission, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-29 Denied civil-contempt civil-procedure contempt decisional-law equitable-remedies federal-trade-commission ftc-act permanent-injunction rule-60(b)(6) sanctions Can a fundamental change in decisional law independently support relief from a judgment under Rule 60(b)(6)?
23-405 Kristy Ross v. Federal Trade Commission Fourth Circuit 2023-10-18 Denied arguable-basis article-iii civil-procedure frcp-60(b)(4) jurisdictional-challenge rule-60(b)(4) rule-60(b)(6) subject-matter-jurisdiction supreme-court-precedent void Whether a judgment lacking in subject matter jurisdiction under Article III is void under FRCP 60(b)(4) even with an arguable basis for jurisdiction
23-5048 Leonard W. Houston v. Highland Care Center, Inc. Second Circuit 2023-07-06 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act due-process exceptional-circumstances federal-procedure in-forma-pauperis pro-se-litigation rule-60-motion rule-60(b)(6) standing Whether the lower court erred in denying the pro-se plaintiff's motion to proceed in forma pauperis and dismissing the appeal
22-6922 Samuel Ross v. Clerk of Courts of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2023-03-03 Denied IFP access-to-courts civil-rights civil-rights-action extraordinary-circumstance fed-r-civ-p-60(b)(6) lewis-v-casey prisoner-rights rule-60(b)(6) Whether the majority Circuit Court of Appeal decisions clarifying that Lewis v. Casey does not foreclose a prisoner's right to access to courts to lit…
22-5736 Ernesto Salgado Martinez v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-10-03 Denied IFP buck-davis buck-v-davis discovery due-process extraordinary-circumstances gonzalez-crosby gonzalez-v-crosby napue-v-illinois napue-violation rule-60(b)(6) rule-60b6 Whether the district court abused its discretion by denying Martinez's Rule 60(b)(6) request to reopen the judgment in order to compel discovery
21-6203 Michael Walker v. Josh Shapiro, Attorney General of Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2021-11-05 Denied IFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mcquiggin-v-perkins rule-60(b)(6) strickland-v-washington trial-counsel Whether the Third Circuit erred in holding that a petitioner asserting actual innocence in a Rule 60(b)(6) motion was not entitled to relief on the ba…
21-5275 Alan Gregory Ender v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-08-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP appealability attorney-abandonment civil-procedure due-process extraordinary-circumstance extraordinary-circumstances notice-of-appeal rule-60-motion rule-60(b)(6) Did the Eleventh Circuit err when not considering attorney abandonment to be an extraordinary circumstance warranting relief from a final judgment pur…
20-7015 Sabina Leigh Burton v. Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-02-02 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure discovery-violations fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court judicial-discretion rule-37 rule-60(b)(6) rule-60b speedy-trial-act Whether discovery violations can constitute fraud on the court
20-665 Damon B. Cook v. George M. Galaza, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-11-13 Denied abuse-of-discretion civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process felony-murder habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reasonable-doubt rule-60(b)(6) sentencing Whether the petitioner Damon C. Cook had a constitutional right to a certificate of appealability
20-6247 Jermont Cox v. John E. Wetzel, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2020-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability default-rule exculpatory-evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-trial-counsel martinez-standard martinez-v-ryan rule-60(b)(6) Whether a district court deciding a Rule 60(b)(6) motion in habeas corpus proceedings may ignore new exculpatory evidence when assessing the substanti…
19-7645 Ramiro F. Gonzales v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-02-19 Denied IFP appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure decisional-law due-process extraordinary-circumstances federal-courts federal-rules gonzalez-v-crosby rule-60(b)(6) rule-60b6 split-among-circuits standing supreme-court-precedent Whether a change in decisional law may constitute an extraordinary circumstance justifying relief under Rule 60(b)(6)
19-7033 Ali Darwich v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appeals-court appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-procedure-rule-60-b-6 district-court district-court-discretion due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-review motion-for-reconsideration rule-60-motion rule-60(b)(6) sixth-circuit-appeal standing Whether the panel erred in construing Darwich's motion as a motion for reconsideration under local rule 7.1(h)(1) and remanding the case back to the d…
19-6934 Dexter Johnson v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-12-13 Denied IFP buck-doctrine buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability fifth-circuit gonzalez-precedent habeas-corpus habeas-relief ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel rule-60(b)(6) successive-petition successive-petitions Whether the Fifth Circuit has misinterpreted Buck by requiring Mr. Johnson to plead a meritorious claim for habeas relief in his Rule 60(b)(6) motion?
19-6537 Christopher Everson v. Theresa Lantz, et al. Second Circuit 2019-11-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-rules final-judgment frivolous frivolous-standard hearing judicial-discretion prima-facie-case rule-60-motion rule-60(b)(6) standing Can the frivolous standard of Title 28 U.S. Code section 1915 (e) (2) (B) (i) and (ii) be applied to a subsequent appeal of a decision on a motion for…
19-6210 Marcus Jackson v. Noah Nagy, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-10-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-standard case-by-case case-by-case-analysis circuit-split civil-procedure factual-circumstances federal-procedure judicial-review reasonable-time rule-60(b)(6) rule-60b6 Whether the appropriate application of Rule 60(b)(6) requires a full case-by-case analysis of the factual circumstances, or whether a less stringent r…
19-5499 Marvel Thompson v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-08-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review rule-60(b)(6) rule-60b6 seventh-circuit standard-of-review standards-of-review timeliness Whether the district court and Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying the petitioner a certificate of appealability
19-5377 Fairly W. Earls v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split circuit-splits civil-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-justice-system criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus rule-60(b)(6) rule-60b6 Whether the Criminal Justice System allows Federal Rules of Civil Procedure in Habeas Corpus Cases
18-9283 Constance F. Russell v. First Resolution Investment Corporation Alabama 2019-05-15 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process federal-judicial-act-of-1925 independent-action ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-act no-opinion-ruling rule-60(b)(6) rule-60b6 standing state-and-federal-constitutional-rights Did the Alabama Supreme Court violate petitioner pro se' State and Federal Constitutional Rights of due-process, when they refuse to adjudicate a case…
18-9276 In Re Jesus Avila 2019-05-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-procedure miscarriage-of-justice motion-recharacterization rule-60 rule-60(b)(6) standing statutory-interpretation Whether the re-characterization of Jesus Avila's properly filed Rule 60(b)(6) motion constitutes an impermissible miscarriage of justice
18-1222 Christopher Andre Vialva v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-03-20 Denied capital-case certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-habeas federal-habeas-proceedings federal-procedure habeas-corpus integrity-of-proceedings judicial-misconduct rule-60(b) rule-60(b)(6) rule-60b successive-habeas-petition successive-petition Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in denying a Certificate of Appealability to review whether Petitioner's Rule 60(b)(6) motion challenging a procedural…
18-8429 Tracy Lane Beatty v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-03-14 Denied IFP adequate-representation circuit-split civil-procedure civil-procedure-60b6-martinez-v-ryan-conflict-amon federal-courts federal-habeas martinez-standard martinez-v-ryan procedural-default rule-60-motion rule-60(b)(6) standing timeliness Whether the Court should grant certiorari to resolve a conflict among the federal courts of appeals as to whether petitioners may ever prevail on a Fe…
18-8214 Charles D. Raby v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-03-04 Denied Amici (1)IFP circuit-split civil-procedure-rule-60b6 civil-rights habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-exception martinez-v-ryan martinez-v-trevino post-conviction-review postconviction-counsel procedural-default rule-60(b)(6) trevino-v-thaler Whether a court must categorically deny a Rule 60(b)(6) motion premised on the change in decisional law produced by Martinez v. Ryan
18-8005 Jason Brooks v. Angel Medina, Warden, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-02-15 Denied IFP appellate-review exhaustion-doctrine exhaustion-of-remedies federal-appellate-court federal-appellate-review federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus merits-determination res-judicata rule-60-motion rule-60(b)(6) state-court-appeal state-court-appeals state-remedies Whether a federal appellate court can deny making a merits determination for a petitioner's failure to exhaust state remedies, when the petitioner's a…
18-1036 Antero Ramos v. Firestone Building Products Company, LLC Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied 60(b)(6) attorney-misconduct attorney-negligence circuit-split civil-procedure client-abandonment client-relief equitable-relief federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-discretion legal-malpractice rule-60(b)(6) summary-judgment Whether a lawyer's gross neglect of a blameless client's case is grounds for relief under Rule 60(b)(6)
18-6898 Joseph C. Garcia v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-12-04 Denied IFP 18-u.s.c.-§-3599 18-usc-3599 certificate-of-appealability death-penalty federal-habeas-corpus habeas-corpus indigent-defendant ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel rule-60(b)(6) rule-60b Whether the denial of meaningful representation required by 18 U.S.C. § 3599 may cause a defect in the integrity of federal habeas proceedings that ca…
18-6572 Douglas Wayne Thompson v. Missouri Board of Probation and Parole Eighth Circuit 2018-11-05 Denied IFP 14th-amendment buck-v-davis civil-rights due-process ex-post-facto habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel rule-60(b)(6) rule-60b6-relief trial-tactics Whether the courts below erred in ruling that Petitioner must seek permission to file a second and successive petition
18-6055 Willie Triplett, Jr. v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-09-20 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel rule-60(b)(6) rule-60b6 state-created-impediment supervisory-authority Whether Lower Court's denial of Motion for Reconsideration pursuant to Rule 60(b)(6) based on intervening law was an abuse of discretion