sixth-circuit-precedent

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
22-9 Whirlpool Financial Corporation, et al. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Sixth Circuit 2022-07-05 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law income-taxation internal-revenue-code regulations sixth-circuit sixth-circuit-precedent statutory-interpretation tax-court tax-law treasury-regulations Whether the divided Sixth Circuit properly held that a statute conditioned on regulations delineating its reach may be enforced without regard to thos…
21-1089 Jeff Garvin Smith, Cary Dale Vandiver, Patrick Michael McKeoun, David Randy Drozdowski, and Vincent John Witort v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-02-07 Denied Criminal-Procedure Due-Process First-Amendment Free-Speech hypothetical-elements jury-instruction Jury-Instructions RICO-Conspiracy sixth-circuit-precedent Should the jury have been allowed to convict the defendants on the hypothetical existence of all of the elements of a RICO Conspiracy?
20-6373 Cordarrius Bonds v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-11-18 Denied Relisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure felon-in-possession firearm-possession knowledge-of-status plain-error plea-bargaining sixth-amendment sixth-circuit-precedent structural-error Whether a defendant who pled guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm is entitled to automatic plain-error reversal when the plea was neithe…
20-5908 Mikel Clotaire v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-10-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure eleventh-circuit-precedent fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment mug-shot-admission presumption-of-innocence sixth-amendment sixth-circuit-precedent Whether the Eleventh Circuit's decision to admit a mug shot in a criminal trial absent a need for the evidence splits with well-established Sixth Circ…
19-7324 Lonnie Greer, Jr. v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-01-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-procedure different-occasions generic-burglary recklessness sentencing sentencing-enhancement sentencing-judge sixth-amendment sixth-circuit sixth-circuit-precedent statutory-interpretation Whether Tennessee aggravated burglary qualifies as 'generic burglary' under the Armed Career Criminal Act
19-6716 Israel C. Isbell v. Steven Merlak, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law administrative-mistake civil-rights consecutive-sentence due-process federal-government federal-jurisdiction interstate-transfer jurisdiction pardon primary-jurisdiction prisoner-custody prisoner-transfer sentencing-procedure sixth-circuit-precedent sovereign-immunity state-custody Does one sovereign lose or surrender its primary jurisdiction when it releases an inmate serving a consecutive sentence into the custody of another so…