michigan-law
12 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-88 | Delco LLC, dba Delco Products v. Leviathan Group LLC | Sixth Circuit | 2025-07-23 | Denied | arbitration-award attorney-fees circuit-court-review contract-breach contract-deliverables michigan-law | 1. Whether the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ("Sixth Circuit") erred by not remanding to the District Court to order Leviathan to pro… | |
| 23-6014 | Curtis Conway Bailey v. Bryan Morrison, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2023-11-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-sexual-conduct direct-appeal due-process immutable-fact ineffective-assistance-counsel judicial-notice mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentence michigan-law sentencing | 1. Whether a trial court can find the fact of a defendant's age as an element of the offense of first-degree criminal sexual conduct under Michigan la… |
| 22-7830 | Steven Nicholson v. Noah Nagy, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2023-06-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment 6th-circuit constitutional-rights diminished-capacity due-process federal-circuit-courts michigan-law rule-of-law voluntary-intoxication | Does the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals position to acquiesce to MCL 768.37 by not interfering with Michigan's jurisdiction conflict with how multiple U… |
| 22-7072 | Montoyya Sims v. Fox Ridge Apartments | Michigan | 2023-03-22 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure claim-transfer court-of-claims due-process judicial-review jurisdiction michigan-law procedural-rules removal standing supreme-court-procedure transfer | "Whether" The United States Supreme Court Should vacate The Michigan Supreme Courts Order and Transfer the individual Claim to The Michigan Court of C… |
| 20-8018 | Deshaun Tisdale v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-05-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | assault assault-with-dangerous-weapon common-law-self-defense criminal-law firearms-offense jury-instruction michigan-common-law michigan-law racketeering racketeering-conspiracy self-defense use-of-firearm | In a racketeering conspiracy case involving convictions for Assault with a Dangerous Weapon in Aid of Racketeering and Use of a Firearm During a Crime… |
| 19-1358 | Michigan v. William Larenzo Shoulders | Michigan | 2020-06-11 | Denied | Response Waived | alleyne-v-us criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing indeterminate-sentencing jury-determination jury-trial michigan-law michigan-supreme-court parole parole-eligibility sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment | In Michigan's "indeterminate" sentencing scheme, judgments of sentence contain two numbers: the minimum number of years the defendant will have to ser… |
| 19-6534 | Saad Bahoda v. Sherman Campbell, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2019-11-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure Bunkley-v-Florida conflict-of-interest effective-assistance-of-counsel evidentiary-hearing forged-affidavits ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-instructions michigan-law People-v-Triplett plain-error self-defense sixth-amendment witness-conflict | I. Petitioner was denied his Sixth Amendment Right to the effective assistance of counsel at trial due to counsel's failure to request a self-defense … |
| 19-6349 | Jarvas Jovon Brinkley v. Randee Rewerts, Warden | Michigan | 2019-10-23 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lafler-v-cooper michigan-law sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington | DECISIONS BELOW CONFLICT WITH THE DECISIONS OF OTHER U.S. CIRCUIT COURTS OF APPEALS AND STATE APPELLATE COURTS, AND MISAPPLY THIS COURT'S DECISIONS IN… |
| 19-480 | John Hankins, et al. v. Barry Seifman, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2019-10-10 | Denied | Response Waived | attorney-fees civil-procedure civil-rights contract contract-law court-decisions due-process federalism judicial-overreach jurisdiction legal-jurisdiction michigan-law public-policy res-judicata sixth-circuit state-law | Can the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals violate settled Michigan law, Sixth Circuit and U.S. Supreme court decisions and/or make Michigan law? |
| 18-7935 | Kahri Smith v. Bonita J. Hoffner, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2019-02-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certiorari criminal-procedure felony jurisdiction michigan-law reasonable-jurists self-defense sixth-circuit | IS CERTIORARI APPROPRIATE WHERE THE SIXTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS DECIDED THE MERITS OF PETITIONER'S SELF DEFENSE CLAIM WITHOUT JURISDICTION AND IS I… |
| 18-6398 | Deon Pittman v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-10-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split controlled-substance criminal-statute drug-offense element-of-offense federal-law means-of-offense michigan-law sentencing-guidelines state-law state-statute | When a state statute prohibits the delivery of a "controlled substance" by reference to various schedules, is the specific type of substance an elemen… |
| 18-5336 | Ventron Vaneke Lott v. Patrick Warren, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2018-07-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion michigan-law sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment | DID THE TRIAL COURT ERRED IN SENTENCING PETITIONER UNDER THE RESRICTIONS OF OV-1 AND OV-2 [OF THE MICHIGAN SENTENCING GUIDELINES] IN VIOLATION OF HIS … |