rule-60b6

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-729 James King v. United States, et al. Sixth Circuit 2025-12-19 Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived circuit-split federal-tort-claims-act judgment-bar procedural-law retroactive-application rule-60b6 Whether a litigant can claim relief from judgment under Rule 60(b)(6) when a change in settled procedural law retroactively vitiates the litigant's re…
25-339 Michael R. Atraqchi, et ux. v. United States, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2025-09-23 Denied coerced-affidavits constitutional-protections due-process eleventh-circuit panel-rehearing rule-60b6 Whether the Eleventh Circuit violated due process by simultaneously denying a Rule 60(b)(6) motion and a petition for panel rehearing without explanat…
24-5936 Samuel Lee Jones, Jr. v. Michael Wheeler Fifth Circuit 2024-11-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-courts constitutional-violation habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default rule-60b6 Does the District Court and Fifth Circuit's ruling conflict with Supreme Court precedents regarding ineffective assistance of counsel claims, appointm…
23-6571 Mark A. Panowicz v. Sharon L. Hancock, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-01-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-justice-records due-process federal-law-compliance federal-statutes procedural-due-process public-impact rule-60b6 standing state-immunity Is the State continuing failure to follow federal statutes, regulations, policies and practices impacting state court originated federal criminal just…
23-6227 Jose Antonio Cortez v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-12-11 Denied IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus reasonable-time rule-60b6 sixth-amendment unanimous-jury-verdict Whether the court of appeals side-stepped the requirements of a Certificate of Appealability
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
21-6733 Freddie Cleveland v. Chad Wakefield, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Smithfield, et al. Third Circuit 2021-12-27 Denied IFP actual-innocence certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure discretionary-review due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure gonzalez-v-crosby mens-rea rule-60b6 third-circuit Did the District Court and the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit abuse its discretion when not granting Petitioner's certificate of appealability
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)
19-6733 George R. Durham v. Josh Shapiro, Attorney General of Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2019-11-22 Denied IFP actual-innocence change-in-relevant-decisional-law civil-procedure extraordinary-circumstance federal-rule-of-civil-procedure-60(b)(6) habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mcquiggin-precedent mcquiggin-v-perkins rule-60b6 Whether the Court's decision in McQuiggin v. Perkins constitutes a change in relevant decisional law that justifies relief under Federal Rule of Civil…
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
19-5213 Arthur O. Armstrong v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2019-07-17 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-procedure-rule-60-b-6 constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment liberty property rule-60b6 Whether Petitioner is entitled to relief, pursuant to Rule 60(b)(6) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure or any relief
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…
18-9208 Robert Tringham v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeals appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights core-judicial-functions court-of-appeals due-process habeas judicial-delegation judicial-functions non-judicial-officer procedural-authority remand rule-12.1' 'Does the Court hold that pursuant to rule-22b2 rule-60b6 rule-60b6' 'Does FRAP 12.1 grant a Circuit Court standing Under what circumstances does access to the courts not mean access to justice
18-8910 Norris Lynn Fisher v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federalism fifth-circuit judicial-accountability judicial-review rule-60b6 standing supreme-court-precedent Why do the Fifth Circuit courts continue to ignore the United States Supreme Court's authoritative precedent?
18-7066 Raymond Jones v. United States Third Circuit 2018-12-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel en-banc-review jurisdiction petition-for-rehearing rehearing rule-60b6 standing subject-matter-jurisdiction wilkins-precedent Whether the district court lacked subject-matter jurisdiction to adjudicate Rule 60(b)(6) motion
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
18-5597 David E. Miller v. Tony Mays, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-08-15 Denied IFP buck-v-davis capital-punishment civil-rights due-process federal-civil-procedure ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel martinez-v-ryan rule-60b6 trevino-v-thaler Whether the change in law announced in Martinez and Trevino, when coupled with a particularly substantial deprivation of a capital defendant's right t…