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25-6781 Stacy Gene Hall v. Buddy Myotte, et al. Ninth Circuit 2026-02-11 Pending IFP due-process evidence-suppression fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction rule-60b section-1983 Whether the Due Process Clause permits a lower court to refuse to consider a Rule 60(b) motion when a prior notice of appeal allegedly divests jurisdi…
25-6791 David Sano-Perez, aka David Sanot Perez v. United States First Circuit 2026-02-11 Pending IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure federal-rules harmless-error rule-60b sentencing-guidelines Whether a District Court's mere pronouncement at a criminal sentencing that it would have imposed the same sentence on a defendant without regard to t…
25-720 Louemma Cromity v. City of Orlando, Florida Eleventh Circuit 2025-12-18 Pending circuit-split civil-procedure federal-law judicial-error legal-interpretation rule-60b Whether the Eleventh Circuit's refusal to apply Kemp v. United States creates an irreconcilable Circuit Split regarding judicial error under Rule 60(b…
25-596 Clifford A. Lowe, et al. v. ShieldMark, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2025-11-21 Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-procedure judicial-discretion rule-60b sanctions-award subject-matter-jurisdiction When a district court is presented with a motion for relief from judgment under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b), does it abuse its discretion by…
25-6110 Daniel Louis Jackson v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Iowa Eighth Circuit 2025-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP district-court due-process habeas-proceeding judicial-review rule-60b writ-of-mandamus Did the district court's summary denial of a Rule 60(b) motion without appellate court permission constitute an inadequate means of relief, and did th…
25-370 Franz A. Wakefield, dba CoolTVNetwork.com, Inc. v. Blackboard, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2025-09-29 Denied Response Waived appellate-panel due-process judicial-disability rule-60b structural-defect tribunal-integrity Whether Rule 60(b)(6) requires relief for a post-judgment structural due process defect in a tribunal's integrity when a judge is later suspended for …
25-5445 Carlos L. Woodson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2025-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa due-process habeas-corpus procedural-default rule-60b subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether under Wainwright v. Sykes a court's direct appeal order can be procedurally defaulted and barred from 2254 Habeas Corpus review for failure to…
25-5172 William Trampas Widmyer v. Jonathan Frame, Superintendent, Mount Olive Correctional Complex Fourth Circuit 2025-07-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights federal-court habeas-corpus procedural-default rule-60b state-court Whether a Rule 60(B) motion challenging procedural default in a habeas corpus proceeding violates constitutional rights when state and federal court e…
24-7195 Jacob Bellinsky v. Colorado Colorado 2025-05-13 Denied IFP constitutional-liberties due-process habeas-corpus parent-child-relationships rule-60b void-judgments Whether courts must independently scrutinize claims of void civil protection orders due to fraud and religious discrimination under Loper Bright Enter…
24-7196 Jacob Bellinsky v. Rachel Zinna Galan Colorado 2025-05-13 Denied IFP constitutional-violations due-process habeas-corpus rule-60b suspension-clause void-judgments Whether the Suspension Clause, 28 U.S.C. § 2248, and Rule 8(d) require courts to accept habeas allegations when respondents fail to traverse or deny, …
24-6896 In Re Nicholas Lee Blair 2025-03-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability circuit-precedent habeas-corpus rule-60b Whether a Rule 60(b) motion can rectify a dismissed 28 U.S.C. § 2255 application when new circuit precedent validates the petitioner's actual innocenc…
24-6515 Joseph T. Shine-Johnson v. Shelbie Smith, Warden Sixth Circuit 2025-02-10 Denied IFP appellate-review habeas-corpus judicial-finality merits-review procedural-grounds rule-60b Whether a petitioner can use Rule 60(b) to gain Relief of Judgment from a legal error that precluded merits review when habeas relief was denied on fl…
24-5907 Aisha Wright v. Transportation Communication Union/IAM Fifth Circuit 2024-11-04 Denied IFP circuit-split habeas-corpus judicial-discretion preclusion-principles procedural-defect rule-60b Whether a federal court can apply preclusion principles to bar new claims when prior proceedings were not fully litigated
24-5709 Gregory Bartunek v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-10-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus material-facts procedural-relief rule-60b section-2255 Whether unresolved factual issues in a § 2255 motion warrant an evidentiary hearing and potential habeas relief
24-5568 Steven Gantt v. United States Third Circuit 2024-09-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-dismissal certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus judicial-jurisdiction rule-60b section-2255 Whether an attorney's dismissal of a §2255 motion without prisoner consent warrants Rule 60(b) relief and whether a court can issue, recall, or withdr…
24-5412 Derrick Hills v. Richard A. Roble, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-08-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP bad-faith civil-procedure federal-rules motion-for-relief rule-60b zoom-deposition Whether the district court properly denied a Rule 60(b) motion when insufficient evidence demonstrated bad faith in a Zoom deposition appearance
24-5153 Jonathan Godwin v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure-rule-60(b) constitutional-rights eleventh-circuit final-order habeas-corpus habeas-petition procedural-ruling rule-60b standards-of-review timeliness Whether Petitioner's Rule 60(b) Motion for Relief from judgment filed within a year of the denial of his Habeas Petition timely?
23-7807 Marcus Anthony Barnes v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-procedure,due-process,criminal-trial,federal court-of-appeals criminal-trial factual-evidence fifth-amendment rule-60b Whether descriptions or summary of evidence is sufficiently accurate enough to determine a Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b)(1) motion alleging mi…
23-7641 Steven Vernon Bixby v. Bryan P. Stirling, Commissioner, South Carolina Department of Corrections, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-06-05 Denied IFP counsel-abandonment federal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-defect rule-60b Whether there is any remedy under Rule 60(b) for functional abandonment by counsel in a federal habeas proceeding, or whether there is no remedy for e…
23-7465 Tremane Wood v. Christe Quick, Warden Tenth Circuit 2024-05-13 Denied IFP federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance rule-60b state-court-decision state-postconviction strickland-standard strickland-v-washington tenth-circuit Whether a federal habeas court's failure to review the last reasoned state court decision under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) is a defect under Rule 60(b)
23A946 Jose Rojas-Meliton v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-04-22 Presumed Complete civil-procedure ineffective-assistance prisoner-rights pro-se procedural-default rule-60b Whether a pro se prisoner's motion for relief under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b) can overcome procedural default when the prisoner claims lac…
23-7066 Tremane Wood v. Christe Quick, Warden Tenth Circuit 2024-03-25 Denied IFP 28-usc-1291 appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel rule-60b strickland-v-washington Does the court of appeals have jurisdiction to review a district court's decision that a habeas petitioner's Rule 60(b)(6) motion is an unauthorized s…
23-971 Gary Waetzig v. Halliburton Energy Services, Inc. Tenth Circuit 2024-03-06 Judgment Issued Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-review civil-procedure courts-of-appeals final-judgment rule-41 rule-60(b) rule-60b voluntary-dismissal Whether a Rule 41 voluntary dismissal without prejudice is a 'final judgment, order, or proceeding' under Rule 60(b)
23-6856 Stephen Aguiar v. United States Second Circuit 2024-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process fraud-on-court government-fraud habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance rule-60b sixth-amendment Whether the Second Circuit wrongly denied a COA
23-6737 Anthony F. Wainwright v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-13 Denied IFP attorney-misconduct conflict-of-interest due-process equitable-tolling evidentiary-hearing federal-procedure habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance rule-60b Whether habeas counsel's unsworn representations can rebut a petitioner's allegation of dishonesty
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…
23-6504 Tormu E. Prall v. Matthew J. Platkin, Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2024-01-18 Denied IFP cause-and-prejudice constitutional-error denial-of-counsel due-process habeas-corpus inequitable judicial-review lower-federal-courts rule-60(b) rule-60b Is it a grievous wrong when the lower federal courts demonstrably misread and reshape a habeas-corpus-claim?
23A595 Clifford D. Jackson v. Neil McDowell, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-12-28 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure constitutional-claim habeas-corpus rule-60b section-2254 Whether a federal court properly denied a Rule 60(b)(6) motion challenging a section 2254 habeas corpus petition without granting a certificate of app…
23A563 Stephen Aguiar v. United States Second Circuit 2023-12-18 Presumed Complete certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus post-conviction pro-se rule-59e rule-60b Whether a pro se prisoner can obtain a certificate of appealability to challenge the district court's denial of Rule 60(b) and Rule 59(e) post-convict…
23A508 Robert Ybarra, Jr. v. William Gittere, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-12-05 Presumed Complete atkins-claim death-penalty exhaustion-doctrine habeas-corpus intellectual-disability rule-60b Whether a death row inmate with an intellectual disability claim under Atkins v. Virginia can seek federal habeas relief through a Rule 60(b) motion a…
23-6020 Henry Zabala-Zorilla v. District Attorney of Berks County, Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2023-11-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP habeas-corpus judicial-error legal-mistake rule-60(b)(1) rule-60b statute-of-limitations successive-petition third-circuit Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred in its application of Kemp v. United States
23-5811 Valery LaTouche v. Harold D. Graham, Superintendent, Auburn Correctional Facility Second Circuit 2023-10-17 Denied IFP due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel rule-60(b) rule-60b self-incrimination whether-new-york-cpl-440.10(2)(c)-statutes-being-amended
23-5637 Daniel Lee Reed v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-09-22 Denied IFP aedpa aedpa-standard certificate-of-appealability constitutional-challenge constitutional-rights fifth-circuit-review habeas-corpus rule-60(b) rule-60b successive-petition successive-petitions Did the Fifth Circuit err in denying a COA for failure to properly consider the framework in which successive petitions are mandated to be reviewed
23-5283 Clarence Leonard Hearns, Jr. v. Cal Trahune, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-08-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa appellate-review exhaustion-doctrine habeas-corpus nunc-pro-tunc procedural-review rule-60(b) rule-60b standard-of-review whether-dismissal-without-prejudice-of-federal-habeas-corpus-prematurely-filed-counts-as-first-filing-under-aedpa
23-5128 In Re Mark T. Stinson, Sr. 2023-07-18 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP 6th-circuit abuse-of-discretion appellate-review circuit-court federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus judicial-discretion mandamus motion-denial rule-60b section-2255 Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit abuse its discretion by refusing to answer Stinson's § 2255 motion?
23-20 Reza Ahmadi v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-07-06 Denied constitutional-claims exhaustion-doctrine habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance johnson-v-williams judicial-proceedings procedural-default rule-60b supreme-court-precedent trevino-v-thaler Does a court contravene Johnson v. Williams and Trevino v. Thaler when it holds an ineffective assistance claim was unexhausted and procedurally defau…
23-5008 Michael Bien v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-06-30 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-court covid-19-tolling district-court extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus hearing new-evidence rule-60(b) rule-60b Whether a United States District Court's ruling to deny a §2254 Certificate of Appealability should be vacated by the Circuit Court when Rule 60(b) ne…
23-5009 Joseph Ray Jordan v. United States Second Circuit 2023-06-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals certificate-of-appealability claims-adjudication collins-v-miller habeas-corpus habeas-relief judicial-review jurisdictional-defect procedural-dismissal rule-60b section-2255 Is a judgment denying habeas (or Section 2255) relief final and complete
22-7889 Tyree Lawson v. Randy Irwin, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Forest, et al. Third Circuit 2023-06-28 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process exculpatory-evidence fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief right-to-counsel rule-60b stone-v-powell Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when the state court failed to properly consider exculpatory evidence and denied his clai…
22-6687 Robert Dee Carter v. Deon Clayton, Warden Tenth Circuit 2023-02-01 Denied IFP appeal appellate-review brady brady-materiality charges-convicted circuit-court due-process materiality pro-se-status rule-59 rule-60b Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit depart Brady by artificially heightening the threshold for materiality based on Petitione…
22-6505 In Re Rosalind Holmes 2023-01-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure detainer-action discretionary-ruling due-process equal-protection forcible-entry forcible-entry-and-detainer rule-60(b) rule-60b standing Whether the Butler County Area III Court, West Chester Ohio, clearly and indisputably abused its' discretion when it ordered a forcible entry and deta…
22-6416 Nicholas Lee Blair v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-12-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 civil-procedure dismissal dismissal-without-prejudice federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus new-evidence rule-60(b) rule-60b time-bar Whether a Petitioner can utilize a motion under Rule 60(b) Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, or similar vehicle, to overcome a dismissal without preju…
22-6186 Michael Andrew Jace v. Ronald Davis, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-12-01 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-deadlines civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure habeas-corpus look-through-presumption post-conviction-relief rule-60b time-limits Is Rule 60(b) available as a means of providing relief to an individual who missed the appellate deadlines in Rule 4(a)(1) and Rule 4(a)(5)?
22-6172 Terry L. Benson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-11-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP aggravated-identity-theft civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process frcp identity-theft jury-of-peers personal-jurisdiction rule-60b writ-of-mandamus Whether the lower courts erred in affirming the conviction for aggravated identity theft, in violation of the petitioner's civil-rights, due-process, …
22-5539 Sean David Pickett v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability eleventh-circuit federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus jurisdiction miscarriage-of-justice rule-60(b) rule-60b section-2255 Does the Eleventh Circuit have jurisdiction to deny a certificate of appealability based on the Eleventh Circuit's determination that the petitioner c…
22-5415 Delano Marco Medina v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-site-location-information certificate-of-appealability ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lost-evidence mandamus mandamus-relief rule-60(b) rule-60b speedy-trial Did the Tenth Circuit err in not granting a COA and refusing to remand back to the district court or to properly consider Medina's Rule 60(b) motion?
22-94 Robert Alan Fratta v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-08-01 Denied Relisted (2) appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure habeas habeas-corpus jurisdiction jurisdictional-grounds procedural-default rule-60(b) rule-60b Must a habeas petitioner obtain a certificate of appealability to appeal the denial of a Rule 60(b) motion on jurisdictional grounds?
21-8080 Travis Horne v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-06-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure district-court error-of-law excusable-neglect federal-rules-of-civil-procedure final-judgment inadvertence mistake relief-from-judgment rule-60b surprise Whether Rule 60(b)(1) authorizes relief based on a district court's error of law
21-6813 Ronald Charles Washington v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-01-11 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process equitable-tolling habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance rule-60(b) rule-60b standing Did U.S. District Court and/or Fifth Circuit err by misconstruing Rule 60(b) as a federal habeas and time-barring petition without allowing equitable …
21-559 Todd W. Hutton, et al. v. Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A. Fifth Circuit 2021-10-15 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure counsel-illness excusable-neglect federal-rules-of-civil-procedure illness-of-counsel rule-60b summary-judgment texas-law Is illness of counsel which results in failure to comply with the local rules, a basis for relief as inadvertence or excusable neglect under Federal R…
21-5726 Dexter Earl Kemp v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-20 Judgment Issued Amici (1)IFP civil-procedure district-court error-of-law excusable-neglect federal-rules-of-civil-procedure final-judgment inadvertence mistake relief-from-judgment rule-60b surprise Whether Rule 60(b)(1) authorizes relief based on a district court's error of law
21-411 Damon B. Cook v. Brian Cates, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-09-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure constitutional-rights district-court due-process habeas-corpus insufficient-evidence judicial-discretion motion-to-reconsider rule-60b standing Whether the petitioner DAMON Cook has made a substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right pursuant to 28 USC 2253(c)(2) in order to obt…
21-5440 Joseph Augustus Dixon v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 60(b) civil-procedure death-of-mother federal-habeas-corpus judicial-discretion legal-relief medication procedural-motion rule-60b untimely-filing Whether the Federal Reviewing Courts abused their discretion in denying Petitioner's F.R.C.P. 60(b)
21-79 Jonathon Herrera v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-07-21 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-review civil-procedure due-process equitable-tolling habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief rule-60(b) rule-60b section-2255 Whether the Fifth Circuit improperly decided a motion for a certificate of appealability on the merits of a § 2255 petition rather than engaging in th…
20-1449 Harold Persaud v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-04-16 Denied Response Waived federal-rules-of-civil-procedure gonzalez-v-crosby habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel martinez-rule martinez-v-ryan rule-60b section-2255 trevino-rule trevino-v-thaler Whether under Martinez v. Ryan and Trevino v. Thaler a Petitioner May Use Fed. R. Civ. P. 60(b) to Reopen a Proceeding Under 28 U.S.C. § 2255
20-7634 Nevia Abraham v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-04-01 Dismissed Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP appeals-court appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure district-court extraordinary-circumstances federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure jurisdiction motion-review rule-60b Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals had jurisdiction to review the District Court's February 13, 2019 Order granting Petitioner's Federal Ru…
20-7635 Lisa Biron v. United States First Circuit 2021-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP conviction-review criminal-procedure federal-criminal-statute federal-habeas fundamental-defect gonzalez-v-crosby intent-element procedural-default rule-60(b) rule-60b section-2255 state-prisoner When the trial court's misunderstanding or the mental intent element of a federal criminal statute becomes apparent in a conclusory footnote in its de…
20-7411 Douglas Cornell Jackson v. Leah Berean, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-03-11 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights court-discretion due-process federal-rules-civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure judicial-proceedings judicial-review pro-se pro-se-litigant rule-60b standing Should the lower courts have been so stringent in limiting their review to only one exception of Fed. R. Civ. P. 60(b) in deciding whether to grant re…
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
20-6266 Mario Salas v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-11-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal appellate-power case-error civil-rights due-process extraordinary-circumstances habeas-corpus judicial-review rule-60b standing Whether the unique facts of Petitioner's case reveal extraordinary circumstances justifying relief from the Habeas Judgment under Rule 60(b)(6)
20-6186 Piyarath S. Kayarath v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-11-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process habeas-corpus jurisdictional-review rule-60b section-2253 section-2255 successive-petitions Whether Court of Appeals fulsome review of potential meritorious claims in COA application overstep the bounds of 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(1)
20-6136 Owen W. Barnaby v. Bret Witkowski, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-10-27 Denied IFP 14th-amendment collateral-attack due-process fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court rule-60b subject-matter-jurisdiction unauthorized-practice-of-law void-ab-initio void-judgment Validity of void judgment and order
20-5965 Vito A. Pelino v. Michael Zaken, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Greene, et al. Third Circuit 2020-10-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-reopening civil-procedure due-process extraordinary-circumstances federal-courts judicial-discretion rule-60(b) rule-60b state-courts substantive-claim Whether jurists of reason can debate that repeated decisions to ignore (not dismiss or deny) a substantive claim constitutes sufficiently 'extraordina…
20-434 Paul A. Heinrich v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-10-05 Denied Response Waived administrative-law civil-enforcement civil-procedure civil-rights clean-water-act due-process judicial-prejudice regulatory-enforcement rule-60b standing Whether judicial-prejudice requires-relief-from-judgment under-rule-60(b)
20-5441 Craig Saunders v. Mark Garman, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Rockview, et al. Third Circuit 2020-08-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP batson civil-rights constitutional-challenge cross-examination federal-procedure habeas-corpus peremptory-strikes rule-60b Whether reasonable jurists could debate the limitation on cross-examination of prosecutor about peremptory strikes in Batson claim
20-5398 Lezmond Charles Mitchell v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-08-18 Denied IFP civil-rights death-penalty due-process extraordinary-circumstance juror-interviews jury-selection pena-rodriguez racial-bias rule-60b Whether district courts can validly bar death-sentenced inmates from interviewing trial jurors post-verdict concerning racial bias
19-1337 Todd Phillippi v. Humble Design, L.L.C., et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-06-04 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure consent dismissal district-court-jurisdiction federal-civil-procedure federal-courts frcp-41 FRCP-60(b) judicial-consent jurisdiction legal-representative magistrate-authority prevailing-party rule-60b standing Whether the District Court and Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals have created an exception to 28 USC 636 (c)
19-8585 Van Jackson v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-06-02 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2255 appellate-procedure due-process federal-prisoner post-conviction-relief procedural-law rule-60b section-2255 statutory-interpretation Whether a federal prisoner has a right to present an argument based on a change in procedural law on his first motion under 28 U.S.C. § 2255
19-8556 Kehinde Adeyemi Elebute v. Village Capital and Investment, LLC Fifth Circuit 2020-05-28 Denied IFP bankruptcy-procedure civil-procedure due-process federal-courts judgment-entry judgments judicial-succession motion-reconsideration procedural-timeline recusal rule-60b standing Whether a successor to a judge that retired may refuse to consider a Rule 60(b)(1) motion on the grounds that he does not reconsider orders entered by…
19-8464 Jamal Mitchell, aka Boo v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-05-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP ancillary-proceeding civil-procedure direct-appeal due-process forfeiture-order intervening-change-in-law rule-41g rule-60b standing Does an order have to be first challenged on direct appeal before the order can be later challenged in an ancillary proceeding based on an intervening…
19-8315 Todd Michael Vincent v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-04-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure district-court due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review rule-60b section-2255 statutory-interpretation Is issuance of a certificate of appealability a prerequisite to appealing the denial of a Rule 60(b) motion?
19-8093 Jose Passalacqua v. Mike McDonald, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-03-24 Denied IFP civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure jury-misconduct motion-standard ninth-circuit rule-60(b) rule-60b scope-of-hearing successive-petition Did the Ninth Circuit Erred In Holding That Petitioner's Rule 60(b) Motion, Was the Equivalent to an Unauthorized Second or Successive 28 U.S.C. § 225…
19-7874 Jackie Dewayne Andrews v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-03-04 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-provisions district-court-jurisdiction due-process federal-court federal-jurisdiction federal-proceedings habeas-corpus habeas-proceedings integrity-of-proceedings judicial-review jurisdiction procedural-defect rule-60(b) rule-60b Does the district court have jurisdiction to consider a Rule 60(b) motion in habeas proceedings so long as the motion attacks, not the substance of th…
19-7222 Timothy Richardson v. Edward Thomas, Warden Fourth Circuit 2020-01-09 Denied IFP atkins-v-virginia death-penalty eighth-amendment federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus intellectual-disability rule-60(b) rule-60b state-law Whether the execution of an intellectually disabled defendant whose death sentence stands due to a federal court's misinterpretation of state law gove…
19-6925 Sulaiman Taalibdin v. Lawrence Mahally, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Dallas, et al. Third Circuit 2019-12-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals-court appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure district-court due-process final-decision habeas-corpus motion-timeliness rule-60(b) rule-60b standing third-circuit Did the Circuit Court possess appellate jurisdiction when the district court ruled petitioner's Rule 60(b) motion untimely under Rule 60(b)(6) which w…
19-727 Keepers, Inc. v. City of Milford, Connecticut Second Circuit 2019-12-09 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights content-based content-based-speech first-amendment free-speech reed-v-gilbert reed-v-town-of-gilbert rule-60(b) rule-60b strict-scrutiny summary-judgment Whether the district court erred in refusing to grant Petitioner relief from summary judgment
19-6740 Glendal Rhoton v. Richard Brown, Warden Seventh Circuit 2019-11-26 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process e-filing extraordinary-circumstances fraud fraud-upon-court habeas-corpus notification-delay rule-60-b rule-60b Does the legal librarian's 7-month delay in notifying Rhoton of the District Court's Order denying his Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus warrant reli…
19-5755 Billy Jack Crutsinger v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-08-29 Denied IFP 60b-motion change-in-law civil-procedure civil-procedure-60b extraordinary-circumstances federal-procedure finality habeas-corpus rule-60b statutory-representation statutory-right-to-counsel structural-defect Whether a court can consider a change in the law as one of many factors in determining extraordinary circumstances warranting relief from judgment und…
19-5381 Charles Quatrine, Jr. v. Mary Berghuis, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-rules circuit-court circuit-court-procedure civil-procedure conflict-of-law federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure final-mandate final-opinion judicial-impediments mandate mandate-review procedural-due-process rule-60(b) rule-60b Did the Circuit Court issue a final mandate that was a conflict of law, established by its own court?
18-9680 Elester Middlebrook v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence appeals certificate-of-appealability extraordinary-circumstance extraordinary-circumstances federal-procedure habeas-corpus habeas-proceedings reopening rule-60b statute-of-limitations subject-matter-jurisdiction unresolved-claims Does a corroborated claim of actual-innocence constitute an extraordinary-circumstance that justifies reopening the habeas-proceedings to adjudicate t…
18-9576 Alvin Weekly v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-06-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP actual-innocence blockburger-v-united-states cruel-and-unusual-punishment double-jeopardy eighth-amendment extraordinary-circumstances rule-60(b) rule-60b sentencing-review Does the Court of Appeals commit clear error when declining to hear a defendant's claim of serving an unlawful sentence in violation of the Constituti…
18-9538 Mark Anthony Head v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-06-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review civil-procedure civil-procedure-rule-60(b) constitutional-claim constitutional-claims due-process in-forma-pauperis judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction legislative-process merits procedural-error procedural-errors rule-60b standing Whether the court of appeals erred in failing to construe the appellant's motion under Rule 60(b)
18-9265 Juan Ramon Meza Segundo v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-05-14 Denied IFP aedpa capital-case circuit-split extraordinary-circumstances federal-habeas federal-habeas-proceedings federal-procedure gonzalez-v-crosby habeas-corpus merits-review procedural-defect rule-60(b) rule-60b section-3599 Whether the denial of Section 3599 representation services under the wrong legal standard constitutes a defect in the integrity of the federal habeas …
18-9007 Nicholas D. Weir v. Montefiore Medical Center, et al. Second Circuit 2019-04-26 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act-of-1964 district-court employment-discrimination frcp-rule-60(b) frcp-rule-61 frcp-rule-62.1 harmless-error retaliation retaliation-claim rule-60b substantial-rights Does a district court judge's misunderstanding of the initial timeline that establishes a retaliation claim (under 42 U.S.C. § 2000e) not considered a…
18-8924 William Weaver v. Michael Bowersox, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa aedpa-standard batson-claim certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims eighth-amendment eighth-circuit eighth-circuit-review habeas-corpus rule-60(b) rule-60b Whether a habeas petitioner can obtain Rule 60(b) relief despite a prior adjudication on the merits
18-8850 Oscar L. Shaw v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-04-17 Denied IFP alteration-of-trial-records civil-rights due-process federal-court fraud lack-of-filing-original-indictment lack-of-jurisdiction-after-dismissal misconduct-by-court-appointed-attorney misconduct-by-state-judge misconduct-by-state-prosecutors rule-60b standing Whether the trial court has jurisdiction after the dismissal, to conduct a jury trial and enter judgment of conviction?
18-8680 George Rahsaan Brooks v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township Third Circuit 2019-04-03 Dismissed IFP actual-innocence aedpa aedpa-standard certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel retroactive-precedent retroactivity rule-60(b) rule-60b subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the decision of McQuiggin v. Perkins applies retroactively
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…
18-8440 Travis Trevino Runnels v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-03-18 Denied Relisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability circuit-court counsel-misconduct equitable-relief habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default rule-60(b) rule-60b standard-of-review Whether certiorari should be granted when the circuit court improperly applied an 'overly rigid per se approach' in denying COA on petitioner's motion…
18-8089 Lattrell Anthony Morris v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-due-process court-of-appeals due-process federal-courts gvr habeas-corpus procedural-review rule-60b standing summary-denial summary-disposition Whether the Certificate of Appealability standard can be consistently applied when petitioners are denied relief under Rule 60(b)
18-7688 Vincent Johnson v. United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit Sixth Circuit 2019-01-31 Denied IFP appeal-proceedings appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure coa-process due-process federal-appeals integrity-of-proceedings integrity-of-process judicial-review procedural-motion rule-60(b) rule-60b standing Whether a R. 60(b) motion can be first presented at the Federal Appeals level to attack a defect in the integrity of the COA process of the appeal pro…
18-7656 Armando Garcia v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa certificate-of-appealability coa coa-standard due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel rule-60b Whether a District court deprives a habeas corpus petitioner of his Constitutional rights to Due Process
18-7037 Gerald L. Smith v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-12-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court civil-procedure civil-procedure-rule-60b-6 criminal-law district-court due-process eighth-circuit habeas-corpus johnson-ii johnson-v-united-states judicial-procedure retroactivity rule-60b sentencing welch-v-united-states Whether the district court and Eighth Circuit erred in denying petitioner's true Rule 60(b)(6) motion, when the district court failed to address petit…
18-7045 Chris G. Gilkers v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-12-14 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-habeas-proceedings fifth-circuit gonzalez-v-crosby habeas habeas-corpus rule-60(b) rule-60b successive-habeas successive-habeas-petition Proper-standard-for-Rule-60(b)-motion
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…
18-6812 Jack Ferranti v. United States Second Circuit 2018-11-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 criminal-sentencing federal-bureau-of-prisons federal-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure federal-sentencing-guidelines good-time-credits life-expectancy post-conviction-relief rule-60(b) rule-60b sentencing Whether the district court imposed a defacto life sentence not authorized by the statute of conviction
18-6494 Terrance Johnson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure discretionary-review district-court due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus judicial-procedure motion-to-reopen post-conviction-relief rule-60(b) rule-60b section-2255 standard-of-review Did the district court abuse its discretion by denying the Rule 60(b) motion without discovery or an evidentiary hearing?
18-6471 Anthony Cardell Haynes v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-10-29 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process extraordinary-circumstances fifth-circuit-review finality gonzalez-v-crosby habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez merits-review rule-60(b) rule-60b strickland substantiality trevino-standard Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in finding no 'extraordinary circumstances' and that the ineffective-assistance-of-trial-counsel claim was not 'substa…
18-6400 Tarvares James Watson v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process eleventh-circuit extraordinary-circumstances federal-habeas-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel rule-60(b) rule-60b state-law state-law-procedural-principles state-procedural-law Whether the Eleventh Circuit abused its discretion in overlooking the relevant state law procedural principles underlying petitioner's constitutional …
18-6249 Markos Pappas v. United States Second Circuit 2018-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 21-usc-851 28-usc-2253 28-usc-2255 appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure-60(b) habeas-corpus rosales-mireles rule-60b section-2255 standard-of-review statutory-interpretation Does the certificate of appealability (COA) requirement apply to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b) motions related to 28 U.S.C. § 2255 proceedings…
18-6126 Sally D. Villaverde v. Greg Smith, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-procedure-rule-60b constitutional-rights district-court due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ninth-circuit rule-60b standing Whether the U.S. District Court and U.S. Court of Appeals incorrectly treated petitioner's Fed. R. Civ. P. 60(b) motion as a second or successive peti…
18-6051 John Phillip Bender v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-09-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP abuse-of-discretion aedpa-limitations appeal certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process habeas habeas-corpus habeas-review prima-facie-innocence rule-60b standing Did the lower court clearly err abusing its discretion applying certificate of appealability (COA) law outside Constitutional bounds
18-5522 Edward Vincent Ray v. Ralph Diaz, Acting Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Ninth Circuit 2018-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion appellate-review buck-v-davis civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process federal-courts gonzalez-v-crosby habeas-corpus legal-standard rule-60b standing successive-petition Whether the United States District Court abused its discretion by construing Petitioner's Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Rule 60(b) motion as a 'suc…
18-5356 Joaquin H. Ciria v. California Ninth Circuit 2018-07-25 Denied IFP actual-innocence civil-procedure civil-procedure,fraud,rule-60(b),actual-innocence, fraud fraud-upon-court procedural-mechanism rule-60(b) rule-60b successive-petition timeliness Whether Rule 60(b) is the correct procedure for raising claims of fraud committed upon the court