| 25-6824 |
Ronald DiPietro v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2026-02-17 |
Pending |
IFP |
affirmative-act felony internal-revenue-code omission sixth-circuit tax-evasion |
Whether an affirmative act of evasion, as opposed to omission of information, is required to establish felony tax evasion under 26 U.S.C. § 7201? |
| 25-6705 |
Chad B. Wolf v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2026-02-03 |
Pending |
IFP |
criminal-enterprise managerial-role procedural-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines sixth-circuit substantive-reasonableness |
Question I - Was Wolf's Sentence Substantively and Procedurally Unreasonable as Rendered Given The District Court Used a Sentencing Guidelines Calcula… |
| 25A859 |
Ulysses Lee Feagin v. Mansfield Police Department, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2026-01-30 |
Application |
|
excessive-force party-presentation qualified-immunity sixth-circuit summary-judgment taser-use |
Question not identified. |
| 25-837 |
Faraday Hosseinipour v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2026-01-15 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
conspiracy intent-to-defraud mail-fraud pyramid-scheme securities-fraud sixth-circuit |
1. Whether by establishing a pyramid scheme, the Government can shortcut its burden of proving the necessary elements of conspiracy to commit mail fra… |
| 25A814 |
Joshua White v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2026-01-13 |
Application |
|
certiorari counsel-representation in-forma-pauperis procedural-extension sixth-circuit supreme-court |
Question not identified. |
| 25-6556 |
Darrell Jones v. Stephen Reynolds, Acting Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2026-01-13 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights federal-law habeas-corpus judicial-review sixth-circuit |
Where the Petitioner-Appellant's case presented a substantial showing of a denial of a constitutional right, and where the issues presented were debat… |
| 25-6492 |
Arthur Fayne v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2026-01-06 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law intent misrepresentation property-obtainment sixth-circuit wire-fraud |
1. KNOWING AND INTENTIONAL MISREPRESENTATION (Kousisis).
Whether the Sixth Circuit 's affirmance of wire-fraud convictions under 18 U.S.C.
§ 1343 conf… |
| 25-6491 |
Billy J. Wilkins v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2026-01-06 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure judicial-fact-finding right-to-jury right-to-silence second-amendment sixth-circuit |
I. Is the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling in United States v. Williams, 113 F.4th 637 (6th Cir. 2024) unconstitutional because it allows a judge… |
| 25-6458 |
Matthew Darrel Childers v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-12-31 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance mandate-recall sixth-circuit |
1. Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals erred when it denied without explanation Petitioner's Motion to Recall the Mandate, Strike Reply Brief o… |
| 25A746 |
Lento Law Group, PC v. Ladel Lewis, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-12-23 |
Application |
|
certiorari court-procedure petition-deadline sixth-circuit supreme-court-rules time-extension |
Question not identified. |
| 25A717 |
Marquise Graham v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-12-18 |
Application |
|
armed-career-criminal-act harmless-error jury-finding occasions-different sentencing-enhancement sixth-circuit |
Question not identified. |
| 25A697 |
Tra'ven Boyer-Letlow v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-12-15 |
Application |
|
counsel-of-record criminal-conviction federal-appeal indigent-defendant petition-for-certiorari sixth-circuit |
Question not identified. |
| 25-6324 |
Craig Edward Hunnicutt, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-12-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure factual-findings self-defense sentencing-discretion sixth-circuit supervised-release |
I. Whether the Sixth Circuit decision affirming Mr. Hunnicutt's supervised release violation and new law convictions, improperly upheld the clearly er… |
| 25-635 |
Edward Ronny Arnold v. Moore and Smith Tree Care LLC |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-12-03 |
Pending |
|
appellate-review constitutional-violation electronic-evidence procedural-error sixth-circuit subject-matter-jurisdiction |
1. Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit erred in ruling the Appellant forfeited appellate review?
2. Whether the United S… |
| 25A642 |
Mark Hartman v. Dave Yost, Attorney General of Ohio |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-12-02 |
Application |
|
constitutional-challenge criminal-punishment ex-post-facto lifetime-reporting sex-offender-registration sixth-circuit |
Question not identified. |
| 25-6252 |
Wayne C. Murphy v. Shannon Butrum, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-11-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-default sixth-circuit |
DID THE COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT ERRONEOUSLY DENY PETITIONERS HABEAS CORPUS PETITION BECAUSE OF PROCEDURAL DEFAULT WITHOUT REVIEWING THE… |
| 25-6179 |
Benny Lee Hodge v. Laura Plappert, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-11-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-sentence cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment equal-protection habeas-corpus sixth-circuit |
I. Under its original meaning, the Cruel and Unusual Punishments Clause of the Eighth Amendment was interpreted as including disproportionate and arbi… |
| 25-6053 |
Marchello Moore v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-trial defendant-appearance fact-finder fair-trial precedential-case sixth-circuit |
(1) Whether the Sixth Circuit erred by prohibiting fact-finders in a criminal trial from considering the in-court appearance of the defendant as it co… |
| 25A414 |
Larry Householder v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-10-10 |
Presumed Complete |
|
federal-prosecution hobbs-act official-misconduct public-corruption quid-pro-quo sixth-circuit |
Question not identified. |
| 25A288 |
Miami Township Board of Trustees v. Roger Dean Gillispie, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-09-11 |
Presumed Complete |
|
civil-rights constitutional-violation law-enforcement municipal-liability sixth-circuit summary-judgment |
Question not identified. |
| 25-5531 |
In Re Omar Rashad Pouncy |
|
2025-09-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
habeas-corpus mandamus panel-rehearing sixth-circuit supreme-court-precedent writ-of-certiorari |
1. Should a writ of mandamus issue directing the Sixth Circuit to fulfill its obligation® as observed in Missouri v. Jenkins, 495 U.S. 33, 46 n. 14 (1… |
| 25A252 |
Gretchen Whitmer, Governor of Michigan, et al. v. Enbridge Energy, LP, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-09-02 |
Presumed Complete |
|
certiorari constitutional-interpretation federal-law michigan-officials sixth-circuit state-action |
Question not identified. |
| 25-5328 |
Ayana Saunders v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-08-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constructive-amendment indictment sixth-circuit trial-procedure variance venue |
I. Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in finding that the proof at trial did not result in a Constructive Amendment or Variance from the… |
| 25A140 |
Michael Salazar v. Paramount Global, dba 247Sports |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-08-04 |
Presumed Complete |
|
certiorari judicial-procedure petition sixth-circuit supreme-court time-extension |
Question not identified. |
| 25-5227 |
Derrick Kellen Mitchell v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-07-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure district-court due-process guilty-plea plea-understanding sixth-circuit |
I. Should the Court grant certiorari to consider if the Sixth
Circuit has improperly deviated from this Court's
requirement, grounded in the Due Proce… |
| 25A117 |
Matthew Jones v. Dave Yost, Attorney General of Ohio |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-07-28 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-jurisdiction certificate-of-appealability federal-review habeas-corpus judicial-procedure sixth-circuit |
Question not identified. |
| 25-73 |
Ali Al-Maqablh v. Crystal Heinz, Individually and in Her Official Capacity as County Attorney of Trimble County, Kentucky, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-07-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
district-court judicial-mandate malicious-prosecution section-1983 sixth-circuit thompson-case |
After this Court granted certiorari, vacated the judgment, and remanded the case for further proceedings consistent with Thompson v. Clark, 596 U.S. 3… |
| 25A78 |
Benny Lee Hodge v. Laura Plappert, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-07-21 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-review criminal-procedure en-banc federal-review habeas-corpus sixth-circuit |
Question not identified. |
| 24A1223 |
Lathfield Investments, LLC, et al. v. City of Lathrup Village, Michigan |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-06-12 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-claim contracts-clause federal-court-jurisdiction section-1983 sixth-circuit statutory-remedy |
Question not identified. |
| 24A1182 |
Ayana Saunders v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-06-02 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constructive-variance criminal-justice-act money-laundering sixth-circuit venue wire-fraud |
Question not identified. |
| 24A1171 |
Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians v. Michigan, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-05-30 |
Presumed Complete |
|
fishing-decree inherent-equitable-powers sixth-circuit treaty-of-1836 treaty-rights tribal-sovereignty |
Question not identified. |
| 24-7174 |
In Re Babubhai Patel |
|
2025-05-12 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
2255-application appellate-review habeas-corpus judicial-fraud miscarriage-of-justice sixth-circuit |
Whether the Sixth Circuit committed judicial fraud upon the court when the Appellate Court denied Patel's Second or Successive 2255 Application on Jun… |
| 24-7162 |
Deshawn Whited v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-05-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attempted-robbery district-court fair-trial right-to-counsel sixth-circuit uncharged-evidence |
Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in finding that the District Court was correct in permitting evidence of an uncharged attempted robbe… |
| 24-7026 |
In Re Andre Monteek Edwards |
|
2025-04-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
claim-adjudication district-court judicial-jurisdiction legal-finality sixth-circuit writ-of-mandamus |
Whether Edwards has a clear and indisputable entitlement to the issuance of a WRIT OF MANDAMUS DECLARING THAT SINCE THE DISTRICT COURT FAILED TO ADJUD… |
| 24-6805 |
Anita Hollins v. Erin Maldonado, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-03-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-review criminal-procedure habeas-corpus inconsistent-verdicts sixth-circuit supreme-court-precedent |
Whether Dunn v. United States, 284 U.S. 390 (1932), overturned by United States v. Powell, 469 U.S. 57 (1984), and United States v. Powell, self-restr… |
| 24-6790 |
Saul Douglas Briggs v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-03-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause search-warrant sixth-circuit |
1. Whether this Honorable Court should grant certiorari to review whether the Sixth Circuit's determination that the good faith exception applies to t… |
| 24-6661 |
Corey Dequan Broome v. James R. Scheibner, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-02-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability certiorari judicial-precedent sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation vacate-and-remand |
WHETHER THE SIXIH CIRCUIT'S DENIAL OF PETITIONER'S MOTION FOR
CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY REFLECTS A DEVIATION FOR THE DIRECTIVE
SET FORTH BY THE C… |
| 24-6346 |
Daniel Moore v. Misty Mackey, Acting Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-01-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights federal-law habeas-corpus sixth-circuit state-court |
Question No. I
Where the Petitioner-Appellant's case presented a substantial showing of a denial of a constitutional right, and where the issues prese… |
| 24A694 |
Jonathon William-Durand Neuhard v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-01-15 |
Presumed Complete |
|
certificate-of-appealability child-pornography habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sentencing-mitigation sixth-circuit |
Question not identified. |
| 24A506 |
Marc M. Susselman v. Washtenaw County Sheriff's Office, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-11-21 |
Presumed Complete |
|
civil-rights constitutional-violations law-enforcement municipal-liability qualified-immunity sixth-circuit |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5978 |
In Re Marquis Deron Heard |
|
2024-11-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2255-motion federal-prisoner mandamus-relief pro-se-petition search-warrant sixth-circuit |
1.) If the petitioner had two appeals on his 2255 motion and the second appeal was correct under Fed. R. App. P. (4) (a) (4) (a) (IV), does law-of-the… |
| 24-5979 |
Robert Seth Denton v. Chris Brun, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-11-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
exhaustion-doctrine habeas-corpus petition-review procedural-error sixth-circuit state-remedies |
Did the Sixth Circuit Error in Denying Permission to Appeal?
Did the District Court Error in dismissing Petitioner's § 2254 Petition for failure to e… |
| 24A479 |
Von Clark Davis v. Charlotte Jenkins, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-11-13 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-claims death-penalty habeas-corpus resentencing sixth-circuit supreme-court-precedent |
Question not identified. |
| 24-421 |
Cynthia Davis, Warden v. David M. Smith |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-10-15 |
Denied |
Relisted (3) |
aedpa constitutional-violation due-process eyewitness-identification habeas-corpus sixth-circuit |
The Due Process Clause requires exclusion of police-initiated eyewitness identification testimony in exceedingly rare cases. Exclusion of such evidenc… |
| 24-5592 |
Deshawn Andrew Boylan v. Michael Burgess, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-09-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
collateral-estoppel habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sentencing-findings sixth-circuit trial-counsel |
Whether the Sixth Circuit erroneously reversed the District Courts grant of habeas relief based on trial counsels ineffective assistance in failing to… |
| 24-5474 |
Lonnie W. Hubbard v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-09-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
judicial-discretion mandate-recall post-conviction-relief section-2255 sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation |
WHEIHER THE SIXTH CIRCUIT ABUSED ITS DISCRETION WHEN IT DENIED HUBBARD'S MOTION TO RECALL THE MANDATE, POST -RUAN V. UNITED STATES , 142 S. CT. 2370 (… |
| 24-5368 |
Joseph Roach v. Amy Robey, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-08-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
accomplice-liability criminal-conviction due-process jackson-v-virginia jury-unanimity sixth-circuit |
WAS MR. ROACH DENIED THE UNANIMOUS JURY VERDICT REQUIRED BY KENTUCKY LAW WHEN HE WAS TRIED UNDER A THEORY THAT HE ACTED ALONE, AND INDEPENDENTLY, BUT … |
| 24-5280 |
Willie Charles Rose v. Joseph Damron, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-08-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts first-amendment legal-documents prisoner-rights retaliation sixth-circuit |
1) Whether the Sixth circuit made clear error when it concluded that the District Court did not err or make s;s,s.r,s1isBosfnis. ts:.ss1::ssLJs!?sr?rs… |
| 24A139 |
Kenneth Brown v. Robert Adams, Jr., Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-08-07 |
Presumed Complete |
|
certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus medical-extension pro-se-petition sixth-circuit time-limitation |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5196 |
Nicholas Salfi v. Amy Robey, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-07-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
counsel-duty effective-assistance habeas-corpus Lafler-v-Cooper martinez-exception plea-negotiations prejudice procedural-default sixth-circuit |
Whether the duty of defense counsel to provide effective assistance during plea negotiations extends to delivering counteroffers to the prosecution.
… |
| 24-5143 |
Nicholas Nassif Hayek v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-07-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-statement district-court due-process evidence motion-to-suppress procedural-error sixth-circuit standard-of-review |
A. THE DISTRICT COURT ERRED WHEN IT DENIED MR. HAYEK'S MOTION TO SUPPRESS HIS STATEMENT AND THE SIXTH CIRCUIT ERRED WHEN IT AFFIRMED THE DISTRICT COUR… |
| 24-73 |
Sherry L. Burt, et al. v. Jimmie Leon Gordon |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-07-25 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) |
constitutional-rights covid-19 pandemic-response precedent prison-conditions prison-officials qualified-immunity sixth-circuit |
Did the Sixth Circuit improperly deny qualified immunity to prison officials based on their response to the unprecedented COVID-19 global pandemic by … |
| 24A68 |
Plumbers Local 290 Pension Trust Fund v. Root, Inc., et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-07-19 |
Presumed Complete |
|
business-risk disclosure-obligation initial-public-offering material-misstatement securities-act sixth-circuit |
Question not identified. |
| 24A29 |
Rosalind Holmes v. United States, et al. |
Ohio |
2024-07-11 |
Presumed Complete |
|
conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights federal-defendants injunctive-relief pro-se-litigation sixth-circuit |
Question not identified. |
| 23A1137 |
Brian Scott Witham v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-06-21 |
Presumed Complete |
|
federal-review habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance post-conviction procedural-default sixth-circuit |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7752 |
Mark Edmond Brown, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-06-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver coram-nobis due-process guilty-plea miscarriage-of-justice sentence sentencing-rights sixth-circuit |
The Sixth Circuit violated Mr. Brown's due process rights by concluding that his right to file a coram nobis petition fell within the scope of his app… |
| 23-7683 |
Keon Lamont Lee v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-06-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-rights circuit-split criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea guilty-plea-withdrawal plea-bargaining plea-withdrawal sentencing sixth-circuit |
Should a district court grant a pre-sentencing motion to withdraw a guilty plea if that plea was made without full knowledge of its consequences? |
| 23-7652 |
In Re Anthony Brown |
|
2024-06-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process fair-preliminary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel rule-59(e) sixth-circuit statute-of-limitations |
I.WHETHER THE SIXTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERRED BY FINDING THAT THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF TENNESSEE DID NOT ERR BY GRANTING TH… |
| 23-7564 |
Ricky T. Jackson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-05-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confidential-informant criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing double-hearsay due-process evidentiary-sufficiency sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment sixth-circuit |
1. Whether this Honorable Court should grant certiorari to review whether the Sixth Circuit's determination that the uncorroborated and unreliable dou… |
| 23A1056 |
George Stephenson, Warden v. Lafayette Deshawn Upshaw |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-05-28 |
Presumed Complete |
|
aedpa clearly-established-law habeas-corpus plurality-opinion sixth-circuit state-court-review |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7374 |
David Allen v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-05-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cell-phone commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation original-meaning sixth-amendment sixth-circuit speedy-trial statutory-interpretation substantial-effects-test supreme-court-precedent |
I.
Whether the broad rule adopted by the Sixth Circuit, that the Commerce Clause
gives congress the power to regulate all conduct incidentally using a… |
| 23-1176 |
Sean Houston, et al. v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-05-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims district-court due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction sixth-circuit standing sua-sponte-dismissal subject-matter-jurisdiction |
J. Whether the court of appeals of the United States for the Sixth Circuit made a presumably erroneous judgement In Affirming the Lower Court, sua spo… |
| 23-1169 |
Michael H. Ponder v. Hans-Peter Wild |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-04-30 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review circuit-precedent contract-law contract-specificity legal-interpretation oral-agreement precedent sixth-circuit specificity standard-of-review |
Whether this Court should grant certiorari review where the Sixth Circuit departed from established precedent regarding the required specificity of te… |
| 23-7304 |
Michael Anthony Granado v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-04-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law due-process firearms firearms-possession music-videos relevant-conduct sentencing-guidelines sixth-circuit uncharged-offenses |
The United States Sentencing Guidelines directs courts to use uncharged
offenses in its calculation of a defendant's guideline range if the uncharged… |
| 23-7297 |
Marcus Bennett v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-04-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review control controlled-substances criminal-procedure drug-house drug-house-enhancement federal-appellate-courts possessory-interest sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sixth-circuit |
Whether the drug-house sentencing enhancement applies with no evidence that the defendant maintained, held a possessory interest in, or otherwise cont… |
| 23-1147 |
Jahmir Christopher Frank v. Good Samaritan Hospital of Cincinnati, Ohio, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-04-23 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure equitable-powers federal-civil-rule-60(b)(6) medical-malpractice medical-records public-interest rule-60 sixth-circuit tort |
Should the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit have reversed the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio for f… |
| 23A945 |
Clarence Mack v. Margaret Bradshaw, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-04-22 |
Presumed Complete |
|
capital-case certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims death-sentence habeas-corpus sixth-circuit |
Question not identified. |
| 23-7276 |
Robert Dwayne Smith v. Amy Robey, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-04-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-default sixth-amendment sixth-circuit |
DID THE COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT ERRONEOUSLY DENY PETITIONERS HABEAS CORPUS PETITION BECAUSE OF PROCEDURAL DEFAULT WITHOUT REVIEWING THE… |
| 23-7206 |
David Eugene Matthews v. Laura Plappert, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-04-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-the-writ abuse-of-writ aedpa equitable-powers habeas habeas-corpus initial-petition sixth-circuit successive-petition unexhausted-claim unripe-claim |
For over three decades, the Court has applied the abuse of the writ doctrine to determine if a second-in-time habeas petition is an initial or success… |
| 23A758 |
Rachael Eubanks, in Her Personal Capacity, et al. v. Dennis O'Connor |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-02-20 |
Presumed Complete |
|
administrative-law certiorari michigan procedural-review sixth-circuit state-sovereignty |
Question not identified. |
| 23A709 |
David Eugene Matthews v. Laura Plappert, Interim Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-02-01 |
Presumed Complete |
|
abuse-of-writ aedpa banister-doctrine habeas-corpus sixth-circuit successive-petition |
Question not identified. |
| 23-822 |
Nicholas Sandmann v. New York Times Company, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-01-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
fact-vs-opinion first-amendment free-speech milkovich-standard milkovich-v-lorain opinion opinion-doctrine sensory-impressions sixth-circuit |
1. Do statements conveying observed sensory impressions in factual, descriptive terms constitute protected "opinion" under the First Amendment to the … |
| 23A692 |
Montel Westley v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-01-26 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-rights criminal-conviction federal-appeal in-forma-pauperis sixth-circuit writ-of-certiorari |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6491 |
Peyton John Wesley Hopson v. Deborah S. Hunt |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-01-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-good-cause certificate-of-good-faith circuit-court counsel-appointment district-court due-process jurisdiction right-to-counsel sixth-amendment sixth-circuit |
Did the Sixth Circuit lose jurisdiction to proceed to review where the Sixth Circuit failed to comply with the Sixth Amendment requirement to appoint … |
| 23-6466 |
Edgar Lerma Flores, aka Carlos Alberto Penuelas Rodriguez, aka Carlos Alberto Pencelas Rodriguez v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-01-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3582 abuse-of-discretion extraordinary-compelling-reason extraordinary-reason guideline-ranges methamphetamine-disparity methamphetamine-purity sentencing-guidelines sentencing-reduction sixth-circuit |
Can the disparity in Guideline ranges for offenses involving substance containing methamphetamine and those involving a pure methamphetamine be consid… |
| 23-725 |
Eric Friedlander, in His Official Capacity as Secretary of the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services, et al. v. Phillip Truesdell, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-01-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
buck-v-kuykendall certificate-of-need constitutional-interpretation dormant-commerce-clause ground-ambulance-services healthcare healthcare-regulation judicial-precedent sixth-circuit stage-lines |
(1) Whether the modern case law approach controls a court's analysis of the dormant Commerce Clause and repudiates the holding in Buck v. Kuykendall, … |
| 23-684 |
Andrew Knapp, et al. v. Janice Brown |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-12-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
adverse-effects-for-police clearly-established-law constitutional-rights detention law-enforcement probable-cause probable-cause-determination qualified-immunity sixth-circuit warrantless-arrest |
1. Did the Sixth Circuit err in denying qualified immunity to four police officers involved in a warrantless arrest and detention in the absence of cl… |
| 23-6339 |
Juan Guzman, aka Juan Villarreal-Guzman, aka Juan Guzman-Villareal, aka Victor Nava, aka Francisco Lara, aka Francisco Lara-Paramo, aka Ayala Ramoro, aka Carlos Solorio, aka Daniel Solorio, aka Flaco v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-12-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion assault-with-a-firearm criminal-procedure district-court district-court-discretion evidence-admission firearm-possession prior-allegation prior-bad-acts sixth-circuit |
Does a District Court prejudicially abuse its discretion in a firearm possession case, as previously found by the Sixth Circuit, when that District Co… |
| 23-651 |
John Lowery v. Mike Parris, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-12-15 |
Denied |
|
actual-innocence constitutional-claims constitutional-review credibility-findings eyewitness-recantation gateway-innocence recantation sixth-circuit sixth-circuit-deference state-court-deference suppressed-evidence |
I. Whether the Sixth Circuit, after applying a blanket rule of deference, erroneously deferred to the state court's credibility findings when reviewin… |
| 23-590 |
Bonifacio R. Aleman, et al. v. Andrew G. Beshear, Governor of Kentucky, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-12-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
discretionary-licensing discretionary-restoration expressive-conduct felony-convictions felony-disenfranchisement first-amendment sixth-circuit voting-rights |
Whether Kentucky's system of discretionary restoration of the right to vote to people with felony convictions violates the First Amendment doctrine pr… |
| 23-6130 |
Sylvia Hofstetter v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-11-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substances criminal-procedure jury-instructions mens-rea plain-error ruan-standard ruan-v-united-states sixth-circuit |
1. On October 17, 2022, this Court vacated the opinion of the Sixth Circuit affirming Petitioner Sylvia Hofstetters convictions and remanded for furth… |
| 23-6116 |
Cynthia Clemons v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-11-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substances criminal-procedure jury-instruction jury-instructions mens-rea plain-error ruan-v-united-states sixth-circuit supreme-court-precedent |
On October 17, 2022, this Court vacated the opinion of the Sixth Circuit affirming Petitioner Cynthia Clemons' convictions and remanded for further pr… |
| 23-6062 |
Holli Womack v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-11-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offenses jury-instructions plain-error ruan-standard sixth-circuit standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent |
On October 17, 2022, this Court vacated Petitioner Womack's conviction in light of
Ruan v. United States, 142 S. Ct. 2370, 213 L. Ed. 2d 706 (2022) an… |
| 23-6033 |
Darryl Smith v. United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-11-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights clifford-pinkney darryl-smith due-process james-gwin james-kennar prisoner-rights retaliation sixth-circuit standing us-district-court |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6025 |
Deunta Finch v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-11-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure guidelines plain-error-review preservation-of-error sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-circuit |
Has the Sixth Circuit erred by creating a novel doctrine that says, to avoid plain-error review, a criminal defendant must object after the sentencing… |
| 23A424 |
Kevin Keith v. Harold May, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-11-13 |
Presumed Complete |
|
death-penalty federal-review habeas-corpus procedural-default sixth-circuit successive-petition |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5638 |
Adrian M. Jackson v. Clinton Canady, III, Judge, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-09-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights discovery due-process factual-error remand sixth-circuit vacatur |
QUESTON NUMBER ONE:
Whether the Sixth Circuit abused its discretion by committing a
factual error in which likely impacted the outcome of their Decis… |
| 23-5568 |
Boaz Pleasant-Bey v. Jason Clendenion, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-09-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-delay constitutional-rights criminal-justice-system due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus sixth-circuit speedy-appeal standing |
I.) WHETHER THE 6th CIRCUIT 'S ORDER SO FAR DEPARTED FROM HOUSTON V. LACK AND EVITTS V. LUCY, REQUIRING THIS COURT 'S SUPERVISORY POWERS TO PROTECT TH… |
| 23A224 |
Eugenie Henning v. City of Jackson, Tennessee |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-09-08 |
Presumed Complete |
|
employment-discrimination municipal-liability racial-discrimination retaliation sixth-circuit title-vii |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5368 |
Larry Scott Reynolds v. Brian Eller, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-08-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process federal-courts habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-default sixth-circuit |
WHETHER THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT ERRED IN DENYING PETITIONER A COA? |
| 22-7706 |
Johnny Taylor v. Jeff Tanner, Acting Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-06-05 |
Dismissed |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP |
complete-denial-of-counsel critical-stage evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice presumption-of-prejudice sixth-amendment sixth-circuit |
1. If an attorney's deficiency is grave enough, criminal defendants do not
need to demonstrate prejudice to prove ineffective assistance of counsel. I… |
| 22-7711 |
William Jon Patric Ebert v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-06-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admissibility fourth-circuit prior-bad-acts rule-404(b) rule-404b sixth-circuit united-states-v-stout |
WHETHER THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT ERRED IN AFFIRMING THE DISTRICT COURT'S RULING TO ADMIT EVIDENCE OF THE APPELLANT'S … |
| 22-7522 |
William Sim Spencer v. Joseph M. Gasper, Director, Michigan State Police |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-05-11 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus heck-v-humphrey judicial-proceedings section-1983 sex-offender-registration sixth-circuit supervisory-power supreme-court-review |
I. Does the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals extension of the § 1983 favorable habeas corpus termination rule announced in Heck v Humphrey, 512 US All (… |
| 22-7252 |
Marlon McCay v. Kevin Genovese, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-04-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review merits-determination merits-review petition-denial sixth-circuit standard-of-review |
Did the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals err when it denied the petitioner's petitions for a COA and rehearing despite the petitioner's showing that his… |
| 22-7159 |
Denzel Simmons v. Mike Walczak, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-03-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fraud-on-court free-speech ineffective-assistance-of-counsel police-misconduct sixth-circuit |
1) Musk MESimamens conchors fer assaul voitn intenb te ou Ader and LAorions. assaull le vacated because ray, are nck supported. by soPhiciend eindence… |
| 22-7106 |
Brian Keith Wells, aka B. K. Wells v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-03-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
counsel-denial criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing ineffective-assistance procedural-review role-enhancement sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment sixth-circuit substantive-reasonableness ussg-3b1.1 |
Whether this honorable Court should grant certiorari to review whether Mr. Wells request for new counsel should have been granted?
Whether this honor… |
| 22-6839 |
Michael O. Brown v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender circuit-court-precedent conspiracy conspiracy-conviction criminal-career-offender prior-convictions sentence-enhancement sentencing-guidelines sixth-circuit state-convictions |
Whether the court erred in failing to grant appellant relief from his sentence enhancement based upon his prior state convictions after Mathis and whe… |
| 22-6744 |
Michael Lee Gordon v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-02-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-procedure sixth-circuit standing supreme-court |
Question not identified. |
| 22-737 |
Brian A. Truskey v. Thomas J. Vilsack, Secretary of Agriculture |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-02-07 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
employment employment-discrimination first-amendment religious-freedom-restoration-act sixth-circuit social-security-number tax-reporting title-vii |
The Constitution guarantees that all citizens may
enjoy the "free exercise" of the religion of their choice.
Am. 1. The Court has recognized that the … |
| 22-710 |
James D. Pieron, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-01-31 |
Denied |
|
chapman-v-california circuit-split constitutional-error criminal-procedure due-process harmless-error jury-instructions sixth-circuit statute-of-limitations |
I. Whether the Sixth Circuit's ruling merits
summary reversal where the court found constitutional error but deemed it harmless under the far less
sea… |
| 22-685 |
Jerry Wayne Wilkerson, et al. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-01-24 |
Denied |
|
anti-kickback-statute commission-payment controlled-substances-act healthcare-fraud objective-intent-standard pharmacy-benefit prescription-marketing sixth-circuit subjective-intent |
Must the government establish subjective intent to engage in unlawful conduct in order to convict a defendant of healthcare fraud and violation of the… |
| 22-6334 |
Joey Faught v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law detainer due-process federal-custody interstate-agreement interstate-agreement-on-detainers notice prisoner-rights sixth-circuit |
Was Petitioner's letter to the U.S. District Court Clerk, while he was a State of Tennessee prisoner, asking to be transferred to federal custody to a… |
| 22-6358 |
Bernard Thomas Edmond v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment 924(c)(3) armed-career-criminal-act due-process hobbs-act johnson-v-united-states predicate-offense residual-clause sixth-circuit |
Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals erroneously decided that the petitioner's predicate offense for his Sec. 924© is the conspiracy charge and … |
| 22-561 |
Larry J. Winget, et al. v. Alter Domus, LLC |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-12-19 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
article-iii civil-procedure creditor-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction fraudulent-transfer jurisdiction revocable-trust sixth-circuit standing trust-law will-substitute-trust |
1. Whether a federal court has jurisdiction to annul a revocable, will-substitute trust and replace it with an irrevocable trust.
2. Whether a revoca… |
| 22-6213 |
In Re Mark Stinson |
|
2022-12-02 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals case-assignment civil-procedure due-process judicial-procedure procedural-error right-to-counsel rights-to-counsel sixth-circuit standing |
1. Did the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ("Sixth Circuit" ) err by
denying Mark Stinson ("Mr. Stinson" ) due process proceeding in the S… |
| 22-6185 |
Brent William Bogseth v. James R. Schiebner, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-12-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus jury-verdict sixth-circuit unreasonable-evidence |
Was the District Court's order for petitioner's B2254 petition final in that it actually adjudicated petitioner's (capital) jury Claim, vi Amendment V… |
| 22-6160 |
Wayland Lynn Dilts v. Mike Brown, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-11-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa aedpa-standard constitutional-violation courtroom-closure due-process public-trial public-trial-right sixth-amendment sixth-circuit weaver-v-massachusetts witness-testimony |
This case involves an unprecedented public-trial violation claim like no other brought before this Court. The record here reflects, that during a jury… |
| 22-6153 |
Vincent Johnson v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-11-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus miller-el-standard miller-el-v-cockrell procedural-due-process sixth-circuit supreme-court-review |
1. What is the correct mechanism and procedure which would allow
a petitioner to present a COA violation made by a Circuit court pursuant
to Miller … |
| 22-477 |
Lezlie J. Gunn v. Hans-Peter Wild |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-11-18 |
Denied |
|
arise-from civil-procedure foreign-defendant foreign-defendants minimum-contacts personal-jurisdiction relate-to sixth-circuit specific-jurisdiction supreme-court-precedent |
1. Should the requirement that a plaintiffs cause of action arise from or relate to the defendant's minimum contacts with a state apply to foreign nat… |
| 22-5853 |
Steven Trapp v. Erica Huss, Warden, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-10-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights complaint-dismissal constitutional-violation covid-19 departmental-memorandum due-process pleadings sixth-circuit standing |
I. Should this court grant this writ of certiorari where the sixth circuit court err in not overturning the district court 's dismissal of petitioner … |
| 22-304 |
Frank Oswald v. Nicholas Mauer, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-09-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review reasonable-jurists sixth-circuit |
Does a Circuit Court's denial of an application for a Certificate of Appealability based on the merits of the appeal, rather than on whether reasonabl… |
| 22-5685 |
Tyrice Hill v. Neil Turner, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-09-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-interpretation court-access deadlines due-process inmate-legal-assistance legal-research meaningful-access prisoner-rights sixth-circuit |
1. Is the Sixth Circuit Courts narrow interpretation of this Courts holding in Bounds wrong
and denies Hill meaningful access to the Courts?
2. Is Th… |
| 22-139 |
Sari Alqsous v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-08-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
charge-conference confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process hobbs-act mens-rea public-official sentencing sixth-circuit |
Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in analyzing ruling that Petitioner was not entitled to be present during the Charge Conference under Fed. R. Crim. P.… |
| 22-5264 |
Cody Gober v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-08-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
concurrent-sentence constitutional-scrutiny criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-procedure federal-sentence post-conviction-relief sentencing sixth-circuit state-sentence |
Whether the due process rights of the Petitioner were violated by the failure of the trial court to address, first at sentencing and then in a post-se… |
| 22-5211 |
Ian LaMonte Cormier v. Lynn E. Williams, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-07-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals due-process false-accusations false-claims malicious-prosecution prisoner-complaint retaliation sixth-circuit standing |
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PUii^FT-AppEJsiAi^ PKitHTlt FiLiMQ FessTcTTH iS… |
| 22-5058 |
Davel Chinn v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-07-11 |
Denied |
Relisted (5)IFP |
aedpa brady-claim brady-v-maryland due-process evidence-suppression materiality materiality-standard prejudice sixth-circuit supreme-court-precedent |
1. Whether a petitioner who raises a claim under Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963), must establish that they were more likely than not prejudiced … |
| 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—in conflict with precedent of this Court and settled administrative-law principles—that a statute that… |
| 21-1587 |
Tim Shoop, Warden v. Jeronique D. Cunningham |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-06-23 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (6) |
aedpa circuit-precedent evidentiary-hearing federal-evidence-rule federal-law habeas-relief sixth-circuit state-court-ruling |
1. AEDPA generally prohibits courts from awarding habeas relief to state prisoners. It lifts that prohibition with respect to prisoners in custody bec… |
| 21-8047 |
Santiago Esquivel v. Gary Miniard, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-06-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process fundamental-fairness habeas-corpus miranda-rights post-arrest-silence prosecutorial-conduct prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-circuit |
I.
DID
THE
SIXTH CIRCUIT
ERR, WHEN
IT
FAILED TO
FIND
AS
DEBATABLE
OR
WRONG
THE
DISTRICT
COURT'S
DECISION
THAT
THE
PROSECUTOR'S
REFERENCE
TOI
PETITIONE… |
| 21-7800 |
Mark P. Donaldson and Peggy Hampel v. Nick Lyon, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-05-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process en-banc-petition judicial-procedure liberal-pleading-standard liberal-pleading-standards pro-se-pleading procedural-rules sixth-circuit sixth-circuit-rules standing |
Was it appropriate for the Sixth Circuit panel to improperly change and completely discard Peggy Hampel's timely filed en banc petition and in doing s… |
| 21-1399 |
Ali Al-Maqablh v. Crystal L. Heinz, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-05-02 |
GVR |
|
42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process favorable-termination legal-remedy malicious-prosecution section-1983 sixth-circuit standing thompson-v-clark |
After Respondents' prosecution of Petitioner terminated without a conviction, Petitioner brought a claim against them under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for malic… |
| 21-7735 |
Erskin Bernard Perryman v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-04-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal-waiver appellate-waiver base-offense-level criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review minor-participant plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines sixth-circuit |
The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals erroneously granted the Government's Motion to Dismiss and refused to address whether the trial court calculated th… |
| 21-7363 |
Jessie Vornell Lewis v. John Davids, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-03-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review jurists-of-reason sixth-circuit united-states-court-of-appeals united-states-district-court |
Did the United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan and the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit erroneously den… |
| 21-1128 |
John Turnure v. Latrent Redrick |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-02-15 |
Dismissed |
Response Waived |
civil-rights due-process excessive-force qualified-immunity scott-v-harris sixth-circuit summary-judgment use-of-force |
I. Did the Sixth Circuit contravene Scott v. Harris, 550 U.S. 372 (2007) by ignoring record admissions, videos, and photographs to credit to Redrick w… |
| 21-7076 |
Richard Maurival v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-02-08 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-trial eleventh-circuit evidentiary-inquiry juror-statements jury-deliberations peña-rodriguez-v-colorado racial-bias sixth-circuit |
Where disclosure of jurors' statements in their deliberations shows racial bias that may have tainted the verdict in a criminal trial, must the distri… |
| 21-6978 |
In Re Isaiah Harris |
|
2022-01-27 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
brady-chambers certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process exceptional-circumstances judicial-discretion mandamus sixth-circuit ultra-vires |
Harris' case presents exceptional circumstances that warrant exercise of this Court's discretionary power. Because of the willful disobedience or adop… |
| 21-6962 |
Robert Eugene Plaster v. Michael Burgess, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-circuit certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights denial-of-rights district-court due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review sixth-circuit |
I. DID THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN AND THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT ERRONEOUSLY … |
| 21-6945 |
Johnnie W. Byrd, III v. David W. Gray, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-01-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof certificate-of-appealability criminal-justice-system criminal-procedure due-process federal-due-process-protections federal-judicial-system food-stamps judicial-review ohio-law sixth-circuit |
Johnnie Byrd's case raises an issue of national importance in the wake of
our Criminal Justice Systems efforts to regain the publics confidence in it… |
| 21-6846 |
Juan Jose Reynoso v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-01-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability fifth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review mitigation-evidence prejudice sixth-circuit supervisory-power tenth-circuit trial-counsel |
Whether the Fifth Circuit has "so far departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings, ... as to call for an exercise of this Cour… |
| 21-6747 |
Victor Dewayne Taylor v. Scott Jordan, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-12-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky capital-case constitutional-law habeas-corpus jury-selection peremptory-challenges race-discrimination race-neutral-reason sixth-circuit |
1. Is a statement by the prosecutor that he believed he could discriminatorily remove African-American jurors from the panel as long as he left one Af… |
| 21-6587 |
Marcus Termaine Darden v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process evidence expert-testimony gang-expert harmless-error hearsay hearsay-testimony sixth-circuit |
I DID THE SIXTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERR BY HOLDING THE DISTRICT COURT'S ERRORS IN ADMITTING POLICE "GANG EXPERT" AND OTHER HEARSAY TESTIMONY WERE… |
| 21-6285 |
Gary Hughbanks v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-11-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
admissibility-of-evidence appellate-review brady-materiality brady-v-maryland confession-evidence criminal-procedure due-process materiality-analysis sixth-circuit suppressed-evidence |
Are another individual's repeated statements confessing to the murders for which the defendant is on trial material for purpose of assessing the impac… |
| 21-6193 |
In Re Roy Allen Nichols |
|
2021-11-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
commerce-clause constitutional-jurisdiction constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-power habeas-corpus prejudice recurrent-issues sixth-circuit territorial-limits |
The Defendant/Petitioner states that the issues being presented in this Writ are not only ones of great public interest or Constitutional importance, … |
| 21-5537 |
John Creech v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-08-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-materiality brady-v-maryland conviction criminal-procedure defense-strategy disclosure due-process evidence-disclosure litigation-strategy materiality prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-circuit |
Is evidence material for purposes of Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963), if its disclosure would affect defense litigation strategy? |
| 21-5533 |
Marsha A. Springer v. Jeremy Howard, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-08-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review reasonable-jurists sixth-circuit |
IS THE SIXTH CIRCUIT'S DENIAL OF CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY CONTRARY TO THIS COURT'S PRECEDENT? WHERE ONE JUDGE OF THE MICHIGAN SUPREME COURT DISSEN… |
| 21-5239 |
Kevin A. Craig v. O'Bell T. Winn, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-07-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-counsel certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review sixth-circuit sixth-circuit-court-of-appeals trial-counsel |
Did the sixth circuit court of appeals clearly err in its denial of petitioner's request for a certificate of appealability, when it assessed petition… |
| 21-5216 |
Fredie Phillip Koryal v. Sarah Schroeder, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-07-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights district-court due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review sixth-circuit |
1. DID THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN AND THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT ERRONEOUSLY … |
| 21-5180 |
Eric Miguel Dowdy v. Shane Jackson, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process judicial-proceedings manifest-injustice sixth-circuit sixth-circuit-court-of-appeals supervisory-power |
WAS PETITIONER DENIED HIS FUNDAMENTAL AND CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS AS GUARANTEED UNDER BOTH STATE AND FEDERAL CONSTITUTIONS, WHEN THE SIXTH… |
| 21-89 |
Mati Leeal, et ux. v. Ditech Financial, LLC |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-07-22 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process federal-jurisdiction legal-claims Sixth-Circuit summary-judgment |
WHETHER THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT ERRED IN AFFIRMING THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF MICH… |
| 21-5142 |
Michael Angelo Williams v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-07-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process guilty-plea harmless-error ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment sixth-circuit withdrawal-of-plea |
Whether this honorable Court should grant certiorari to review whether Mr. Williams should have been permitted to withdraw his guilty plea, which requ… |
| 21-5111 |
Joenell L. Rice v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-07-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-discretion post-conviction-relief sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-circuit time-served |
Question not identified. |
| 21-5074 |
Samuel Ridder v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-07-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleged-bias appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability forfeiture ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-bias merits-brief prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-circuit |
1. Did the Sixth Circuit misconstrue the Certificate of Appealability as a merits brief?
2. Did the Sixth Circuit err as to forfeiture of the claim r… |
| 20-8376 |
Jay Earl Haynes v. Bert Boyd, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-06-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-circuit standard-of-review tennessee-corrections warden |
WHETHER THE SIXTH CIRCUIT ERRERED IN DENYING THE
CRETIFICATE OF APPEALIBILITY? |
| 20-8234 |
Arian Lamont Brown v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-06-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-criminal-guideline criminal-procedure en-banc en-banc-review judicial-discretion mandate mandate-recall precedent sentence-enhancement sentencing sixth-circuit |
Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit abuse its discretion and err by denying the Motion to Recall the Mandate, when The United… |
| 20-1620 |
Joy McShan Edwards v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-05-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
18-usc-1513 28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights first-amendment free-speech overbreadth overbreadth-doctrine sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether the Sixth Circuit's denial of Petitioner's request for a certificate of
appealability pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c) was unreasonable, whe… |
| 20-8058 |
Kenneth Rose v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-05-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-protections due-process judicial-bias judicial-proceedings search-warrant sixth-circuit |
1. Has the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals so far departed from the accepted and
usual course of judicial proceedings, or sanctioned such a departure … |
| 20-1564 |
James M. Perna v. Health One Credit Union, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-05-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
access-to-courts arbitration civil-rights due-process first-amendment forum-selection jurisdiction petition-clause sixth-circuit writ-of-certiorari |
Whether a grant of a writ of certiorari is warranted where, if left without review, the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth C… |
| 20-7943 |
Tyquez Ursery v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-05-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act attempted-burglary generic-burglary james-v-united-states sentencing-enhancement sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation united-states-v-gloss violent-felony |
1. Does Tennessee's aggravated burglary statute, which defines "entry" so broadly as to encompass mere attempted burglary, qualify as a "generic burgl… |
| 20-7877 |
Robert Washington v. David Gomez, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-04-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability constitutional-review due-process federal-statute habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-circuit strickland-v-washington |
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| 20-7823 |
Alan Trowbridge v. Jeffrey Woods, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-04-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review counsel-deficiency criminal-procedure federal-law habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-precedent prejudice sixth-amendment sixth-circuit strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Did the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals decide an important question of federal law in a way that conflicts with this Court's holding in Strickland v. … |
| 20-7795 |
Antwan Lamar Hutchinson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-04-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-procedure competency competency-hearing criminal-procedure drope-standard due-process mental-health procedural-review sixth-circuit standard-of-review |
1) Should the Court reverse the Sixth Circuit's modified version of the three-factor legal test in Drope v. Missouri, because it adds a fourth factor,… |
| 20-7723 |
Dangelo Davis v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-04-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-endeavor criminal-procedure double-jeopardy drug-amount drug-charges due-process RICO sentencing sixth-circuit |
I. DID THE DECISION OF THE COURTS APPEALS THE SIXTH CIRCUIT ERR WHEN CONCLUDING THAT DAVIS NOWAK'S GOAL OF FURTHERING OR FACILITATING THE CRIMINAL ENT… |
| 20-7652 |
Lawrence L. Colton v. J. A. Terris, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-04-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review civil-procedure district-court due-process habeas-corpus interests-of-justice procedural-validity sixth-circuit writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the Order of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit is procedurally invalid because the Panel failed to consider, and overlo… |
| 20-7640 |
Nicholas Corey Garner v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-04-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure email-search ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel presentence-report restitution search-and-seizure sentencing sixth-circuit |
Was Counsel constitutionally ineffective when he failed to challenge the search of Petitioner's vehicle in violation of Petitioner's Fourth Amendment … |
| 20-7611 |
Jamar Garrison v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-03-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-rule brady-violation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discovery-obligations due-process harmless-error rule-16 sixth-circuit |
I. Should a Writ of Certiorari Issue to Revi ew the Brady and Rule 1 6 Due
Process Viol ations in Defendant's Case Because the Sixth Ci rcuit
Found No… |
| 20-7425 |
Cornelius Kenyatta Craig v. Andre Matevousian, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment reasonable-doubt sixth-circuit |
1. Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit pronouncement on the some evidence standard has departed from accepted and usual c… |
| 20-7400 |
Drashawn Bartlett v. Anna Valentine, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-03-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2253 double-jeopardy felony-murder fifth-amendment harris-precedent harris-v-oklahoma robbery sixth-circuit |
In a case involving the substantive offenses of murder and robbery, can the offense of robbery be included as an element in a felony murder instructio… |
| 20-7180 |
William Hugh Wilson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-02-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review motion-denial sixth-circuit wilson-case |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit erred in denying Wilson's Motion for Certificate of Appealability and Granting Relief… |
| 20-7142 |
Lewis R. Fox v. David W. Gray, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-02-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure due-process felonious-assault habeas-corpus insufficient-evidence merits-review sixth-circuit |
Lewis Fox's federal habeas corpus petition case (Insufficient Evidence Claim) raises a pressing issue of national importance: Did the United States Co… |
| 20-6852 |
Cindy Bauer, fka Cindy Gamrat v. Edward McBroom, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-01-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process fair-and-just-treatment fair-treatment legislative-immunity legislative-investigations-and-hearings pleading-standard pleading-standards sixth-circuit |
Article I § 17 of Michigan 's Constitution states in part, The right of all individuals, firms,
and corporations, and voluntary associations to fair … |
| 20-6637 |
David Earl Brown v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-12-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act attempted-burglary generic-burglary james-v-united-states sixth-circuit tennessee-aggravated-burglary |
Does Tennessee's aggravated burglary statute, which defines "entry" so broadly as to encompass mere attempted burglary, qualify as a "generic burglary… |
| 20-6461 |
Juan Morris v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-11-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act attempted-burglary generic-burglary sixth-circuit tennessee-aggravated-burglary violent-felony |
Does Tennessee's aggravated burglary statute, which defines "entry" so broadly as to encompass mere attempted burglary, qualify as a "generic burglary… |
| 20-6457 |
Phillip Watkins v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-11-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process hybrid-representation pro-se right-to-counsel sixth-circuit standing supplemental-brief |
1. Whether Petitioner, after presenting trial court motion in an alternative court action in an amended (Amend.) black letter brief presented Pro Se b… |
| 20-6306 |
Phillip L. Gilliam v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act attempted-burglary generic-burglary sixth-circuit tennessee-aggravated-burglary violent-felony |
Does Tennessee's aggravated burglary statute, which defines "entry" so broadly as to encompass mere attempted burglary, qualify as a "generic burglary… |
| 20-6282 |
Darius Tirrell Thomas v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
career-offender criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process federal-sentencing judicial-discretion sentencing-guidelines sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation u.s.-code |
Whether, the Trial Court Erred in Finding the Defendant to Be a "Career Offender" and Sentencing Him Accordingly? |
| 20-6220 |
Tony Edwin McClurg v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-11-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act attempted-burglary attempted-entry generic-burglary sixth-circuit tennessee-aggravated-burglary |
Does Tennessee's aggravated burglary statute, which defines "entry" so broadly as to encompass mere attempted burglary, qualify as a "generic burglary… |
| 20-6120 |
Johnny Tippins v. NWI-1, Inc., et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-10-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process fraudulent-concealment mandate-recall miscarriage-of-justice sixth-circuit standing state-law statute-of-limitations successor-liability |
Should this Court of hopes wucall its Noweber 21: 2017 mandah in otder Ib prtat a miscarnage, of whee are (i)-the Sixth Cucuit aplid the thee year Sha… |
| 20-6083 |
John Oliver Wooten v. Patrick Warren, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-10-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
deference factual-error federal-courts federal-review habeas-corpus habeas-review sixth-amendment sixth-circuit standard-of-review state-court state-courts |
Is a state court decision entitled to deference on federal habeas review if it is undisputed that the state court applied the wrong standard of review… |
| 20-507 |
Tony Mays, Warden v. Anthony Darrell Dugard Hines |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-10-16 |
Judgment Issued |
Relisted (4) |
antiterrorism-act antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act capital-trial death-penalty habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-circuit sixth-circuit-review strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
The question presented is whether the Sixth Circuit's decision conflicts with the Court's precedents governing claims of ineffective assistance of cou… |
| 20-6009 |
Lamar Thornton v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-10-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appointed-counsel criminal-justice-act due-process in-forma-pauperis ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-for-leave-to-proceed-in-forma-pauperis petition-for-writ-of-certiorari pro-se-filing sixth-circuit writ-of-certiorari |
Question not identified. |
| 20-5956 |
Tracy Lynn Cope v. Randy Lee, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-10-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa aedpa-standard brady-v-maryland brady-violation confidential-informant criminal-trial due-process prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-circuit sixth-circuit-review |
Whether the Sixth Circuit's property applied the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (AEDPA) in denying Petition relief where in the… |
| 20-5934 |
Thomas Holden v. Sherry L. Burt, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-10-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure conflict-with-supreme-court constitutional-review due-process federal-law ineffective-assistance premeditated-intent right-to-counsel sixth-amendment sixth-circuit strickland-standard trial-court-error |
WHETHER A UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS HAS DECIDED AN IMPORTANT QUESTION OF FEDERAL LAW THAT CONFLICTS WITH RELEVANT DECISIONS OF THIS COURT, WHERE … |
| 20-5890 |
Willie R. Benton, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy due-process mistake-of-fact relevant-conduct sentencing sixth-circuit |
Is a criminal defendant denied Due Process of Law when the sentencing Court in a drug conspiracy case determines that a quantity of a substance should… |
| 20-5717 |
William Bradner v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-09-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-justice-system due-process government-breach plea-agreement plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing sentencing-level sixth-circuit |
Whether the government breaches the bargain of a plea agreement by requesting a minimum sentencing level fifteen years longer than what it had explici… |
| 20-5664 |
Marcus Hanserd v. Tony Trierweiler, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-09-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel relate-back relate-back-doctrine rule-15c sixth-circuit sixth-circuit-court-of-appeals standard-of-review |
IS THERE A CONFLICT AMONG THE CIRCUITS AS TO THE PROPER STANDARD OF REVIEW FOR FEDERAL RULES CIVIL PROCEDURE RULE 15(C), RELATE BACK PROVISION; DOES P… |
| 20-5560 |
Briand Daniel Fechner v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-09-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography criminal-procedure due-process eighth-circuit evidence evidentiary-rules propensity-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct search-and-seizure sixth-circuit |
(1) Whether the prosecution may introduce child pornography videos at trial that were not found on the defendant's devices, but found in an outside in… |
| 20-182 |
Rita Stanback, et al. v. Ginny Humphrey, as Parent and Legal Guardian of Minor Child, O. H., et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-08-19 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights clearly-established-law due-process law-enforcement police-investigation qualified-immunity sexual-misconduct sixth-circuit supervisory-liability takings |
Whether the Sixth Circuit contradicted a fundamental principle of this Court's qualified immunity precedent when it denied qualified immunity to Petit… |
| 20-5412 |
Kenneth T. Bluew v. Connie Horton, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-08-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability due-process factual-record habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance procedural-review sixth-circuit |
Where Petitioner has never been allowed to develop the factual record which supports his claims of ineffective assistance of trial counsel, should thi… |
| 20-5271 |
Toshi Edward Willingham v. Catherine S. Bauman, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-08-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights district-court due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review sixth-circuit |
1. DID THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN AND THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT ERRONEOUSLY … |
| 20-5099 |
Lantrel DeKeith Wilson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-07-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment 6th-circuit consent-search consent-to-search criminal-procedure inevitable-discovery motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure sixth-circuit supreme-court-precedent terry-stop |
I. Whether the decision of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in affirming the District Court's denial of Lantrel Wilson's Motion to Suppress conflict… |
| 20-5057 |
Ledinson Chavez v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-07-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advance-knowledge aggravated-identity-theft aiding-and-abetting criminal-law identity-theft jury-instruction knowledge-requirement rosemond-v-united-states sixth-circuit supreme-court-mandate |
Did the trial court's jury instruction on aiding and abetting aggravated identity theft comply with this Court's mandate in Rosemond v. United States,… |
| 20-5001 |
Mark Norris v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act attempted-burglary burglary-statute criminal-sentencing entry-definition generic-burglary sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation tennessee-burglary-statute violent-felony |
Does Tennessee's burglary statute, which defines "entry" so broadly as to encompass mere attempted burglary, qualify as a "generic burglary" under the… |
| 19-8821 |
Jose Santiago-Ortiz v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-06-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
-criminal-organization -federal-criminal-law -murder-statute -organizational-intent -substantive-nexus #NAME? criminal-organization federal-criminal-offenses murder second-circuit sixth-circuit substantive-nexus |
Whether federal criminal offenses that include, as an element, a substantive nexus between a charged murder and the defendant's alleged secure his pos… |
| 19-8698 |
Neal Scott Stone v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-06-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability circuit-split drug-trafficking due-process entrapment-defense habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel police-informant sixth-circuit |
1. Does the Sixth Circuit's Amended Order, in which it denied Stone's COA Motion; conflict with Lozada v.Deeds, 498 U.S. 430 (199r)(per curiam) and pr… |
| 19-1364 |
Heather Henry, et vir v. CMBB, LLC |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-06-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
certification civil-procedure common-law district-court intentional-injury intentional-tort preemption sixth-circuit standing statutory-interpretation tennessee-law workers-compensation |
1. Whether the Sixth Circuit of the United States Court of Appeals erred in affirming the decision of the District Court that Petitioners' claim is ba… |
| 19-8521 |
Aaron Daniels v. Jack Kowalski, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-05-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
amadeo-v-zant amended-claims habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lesser-included-offense procedural-default sixth-circuit strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
The Sixth Circuit reasoning concerning Petitioners attempt to get new counsel assigned during trial is flamed, as several United States Supreme Court … |
| 19-8335 |
Mitchell Willoughby v. Deedra Hart, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-04-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
caldwell-precedent capital-sentencing closing-argument death-penalty jury jury-instructions prosecutor prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-circuit state-law voir-dire |
"The uncorrected suggestion that the responsibility for any ultimate determination of death will rest with others presents an intolerable danger that … |
| 19-1227 |
Judith Kerns, et al. v. Caterpillar, Inc. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-04-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
collective-bargaining collectively-bargained-agreements contract-interpretation durational-clause ERISA healthcare-benefits m-and-g-polymers M&G-Polymers-v-Tackett retiree-benefits sixth-circuit surviving-spouse vesting |
With respect to the surviving spouse class members
whose retiree-spouses died on or after January 10,
2005 (after expiration of the 1998 contracts) ("… |
| 19-8023 |
Tom Eli Orr v. Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-03-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
42-U.S.C.-section 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process pro-se pro-se-pleading procedural-due-process sixth-circuit standing |
HAS MR. ORR BEEN AFFORDED PROCEDURAL DUE PROCESS UNDER THE CONSTITUTION? |
| 19-8030 |
Robbie Shane Bateman v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-03-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act attempted-burglary burglary criminal-statute entry entry-definition generic-burglary sentencing-enhancement sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation tennessee-law |
The Armed Career Criminal Act's mandatory penalty can be triggered by prior convictions for "burglary." 18 U.S.C. § 924(e) , (e)(2(B)(ii). The term "b… |
| 19-7955 |
Philip Berryman v. Randall Haas, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-03-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-conflict circuit-split constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection exhaustion exhaustion-doctrine exhaustion-of-remedies grievance-process precedent prison-litigation sixth-circuit stare-decisis |
In this case, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals holds that an essentiak part of the
MDOC's Grievance Process will only benefit a very few litigants … |
| 19-1079 |
M.W. Watermark, LLC, et al. v. Evoqua Water Technologies, LLC |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-03-03 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights consent-decree contract-assignment contract-law due-process federal-court four-corners injunction injunctive-relief sixth-circuit standing |
This Court says that "the scope of a consent decree must be discerned within its four corners, and not by reference to what might satisfy the purposes… |
| 19-7599 |
Tracey Smith-Kilpatrick v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
business-records confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington evidence-rule federal-rule-of-evidence-803(6) federal-rules-of-evidence government-use hearsay hearsay-exception record-reliability sixth-circuit testimonial-statement testimonial-statements |
Whether business records qualify as inadmissible hearsay when the government uses them as testimonial statements and for purposes other than those for… |
| 19-926 |
Kim Davis v. David Ermold, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-01-24 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (9) |
ashcroft-v-al-kidd civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process obergefell-v-hodges qualified-immunity religious-freedom same-sex-marriage sixth-circuit zablocki-v-redhail |
1. Whether the Sixth Circuit erred when, citing Obergefell v. Hodges, it created a special standard for a same-sex couple's claimed temporary burden o… |
| 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 |
1) Whether Sixth Circuit precedent that counts Tennessee aggravated burglary
as "generic burglary" for purposes of the Armed Career Criminal Act is in… |
| 19-7074 |
Victor J. Stitt, II v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-12-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act burglary criminal-sentencing generic-burglary rehaif rehaif-standard sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent tennessee-law |
I. Whether the Court should grant certiorari, vacate the judgment below, and remand for reconsideration in light of Rehaif v. United States, 139 S. Ct… |
| 19-6985 |
Boaz Pleasant-Bey v. Shelby County, Tennessee, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-12-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appropriate-relief circuit-court-conflict first-amendment-free-exercise inmate-led-religious-services inmate-rights qualified-immunity rluipa rluipa-appropriate-relief-clause sixth-circuit trial-on-merits trial-on-the-merits |
I.) WHETHER RLUIPA'S "APPROPRIATE RELIEF " CLAUSE ENCOMPASSES THE
REQUESTED RELIEF OF A TRIAL ON THE MERITS AND IF SO, DID PLAINTIFF'S
REQUEST OF A … |
| 19-6968 |
Brian David Brumbach v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-12-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act burglary categorical-approach criminal-sentencing entry-by-instrument entry-requirement generic-burglary sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation tennessee-law |
The Armed Career Criminal Act's mandatory penalty can be triggered by prior convictions for "burglary." "Burglary" carries the meaning that the majori… |
| 19-6863 |
In Re Melvin Bonnell |
|
2019-12-05 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-law due-process federal-habeas federal-review habeas-corpus retroactive-application retroactivity sixth-circuit state-court-decisions teague-doctrine teague-standard |
Bonnell's habeas petition presents exceptional circumstances that, if left unresolved, will cause disparate interpretations of the federal Constitutio… |
| 19-642 |
Shawntele Cortez Jackson v. Kathy Litteral |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-11-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
brecht-standard chapman-standard esparza-standard habeas-corpus habeas-review harmless-error self-defense sixth-circuit |
1. Whether the Sixth Circuit erred in applying the
Esparza harmless error standard, instead of the
Brecht harmless error standard on federal habeas
re… |
| 19-609 |
Erin J. Shepherd, et al. v. Angela Studdard |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-11-12 |
Denied |
Relisted (3) |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct qualified-immunity sixth-circuit summary-judgment use-of-force |
1. Police officers are entitled to qualified immunity unless they violate constitutional rights in factual situations squarely governed by controlling… |
| 19-6316 |
James Matthew Shelton v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-10-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability competency-evaluation competency-to-stand-trial evidentiary-hearing habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion sixth-amendment sixth-circuit |
DENYING CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY AS TO WHETHER THE LOWER
COURT;
(1) ERRS DENYING SHELTON'S HABEAS CLAIM ALLEGING INEFFECTIVE
ASSISTANCE OF COUNS… |
| 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? |
| 19-6166 |
Sean Lee Strandberg v. Carmen Denise Palmer, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-10-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure defense-mechanism due-process evidence evidence-conflict judicial-proceedings polygraph polygraph-evidence presumed-land sixth-amendment sixth-circuit state-lien strickland-v-washington united-states-supreme-court washington-v-hovey |
Whether the executive system lien has able to come the decision of the presume and mittence as polygraph evidence conflict with or departs from accept… |
| 19-6176 |
Christopher Harris v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-10-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law due-process evidence murder pecuniary-gain rico rico-enterprise sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation vcar vcar-offense |
I. Should a Writ of Certiorari Issue Because the Sixth Circuit Ignored the Uncontroverted Evidence and its own Analysis of the VCAR Motives to Conclud… |
| 19-6189 |
Lewis Brown v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-10-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure clear-error due-process judicial-bias judicial-discretion judicial-misconduct pro-se-litigation sixth-circuit standing structural-error |
1) Did the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals abuse its discretion when it committed clear error of judgment, by relying on clearly erroneous findings of … |
| 19-5945 |
Timothy Eugene Sampson v. Cathy M. Garrett, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-09-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-appeals habeas-corpus judicial-review pleading-standards procedural-dismissal sixth-amendment sixth-circuit standing |
I.
THe Astinat CouT Enraned in Drsaissing the Complannt TO Heck bAe And
4
CAW lelanT A wriT of CenTiORtRi ?
II. Did the DistTa covl enreR in necanfrE… |
| 19-5868 |
William Charles Burgess v. Chuck Bowers, Jr., et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-09-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment circuit-court circuit-court-review criminal-procedure district-court district-court-finding district-court-findings expectation-of-privacy legal-precedent precedent prior-decisions search-and-seizure sixth-circuit |
Whether the Sixth Circuit Court improperly reversed the District Court's finding that Petitioner had an expectation of privacy in and around his busin… |
| 19-5874 |
David Kirkland v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-09-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility constitutional-claim evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement plea-bargaining prejudice sentencing-reduction sixth-circuit strickland-standard third-circuit trial |
1. Whether the petitioner's attorney was ineffective for withholding information that cost defendant a three-point sentencing reduction for acceptance… |
| 19-5498 |
Qwindel Jerome Page v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-08-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2253 28-usc-2255 certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights habeas-corpus jurists-of-reason procedural-review sixth-circuit standard-of-review standards-of-review |
1. Whether The District Court And The Sixth Circuit Court Of Appeals Erred When They Denied The Petitioner A Certificate Of Appealability ("COA") Wher… |
| 19-5376 |
Alan Lewis Doering v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-07-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process standing takings confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence sixth-amendment sixth-circuit |
How can lower Consts dismiss
Violation of bcing
Punishd in the bok with no frult of ny own?
How can the isshance of tablits to inmats fron the
ADciwhi… |
| 19-115 |
Frank J. Lawrence, Jr. v. United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-07-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
Abuse-of-discretion Admission-to-practice bar-admission constitutional-rights Criticism-of-officials due-process expressive-activities First-Amendment free-speech judicial-discretion judicial-review law-practice-admission sixth-circuit standing uniformity-of-decisions |
Within a four month span, Petitioner filed applications for admission to the bars of eight federal courts, including the United States Court of Appeal… |
| 19-5215 |
Lowrell Neal v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2255-motion appellate-review circuit-court clearly-erroneous criminal-procedure habeas-corpus law-of-the-case manifest-injustice procedural-error sixth-circuit |
1. RESULTED IN A MANIFEST INJUSTICE?
2. DID THE SIXTH CIRCUIT ERR BY DENYING PETITIONER'S MOTION TO EXPAND COA ISSUES TO INCLUDE A CLAIM THE DISTRICT… |
| 19-5257 |
In Re Vincent Johnson |
|
2019-07-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-procedure-rules-60-b-6 clerk clerk-filing due-process federal-appeals federal-courts judicial-procedure jurisdiction motion motion-for-relief relief-sought rule-60-motion sixth-circuit standing |
1. Whether the clerk for the Sixth Circuit Debbrah Hunt should be order to file movant's R. 60(b)(6) motion.
2. Whether the Sixth Circuit court of Ap… |
| 19-4 |
Jackson National Life Insurance Company v. Tamarin Lindenburg, Individually and as Natural Guardian of Her Minor Children ZTL and SML |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-06-28 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
certification consistent-application-of-state-law constitutional-interpretation cooperative-federalism judicial-efficiency sixth-circuit state-law tennessee-constitution tennessee-supreme-court |
Do principles of cooperative federalism, judicial efficiency, and concern for the consistent application of state law compel the Sixth Circuit to cert… |
| 18A1365 |
Juaquene Solomon v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-06-26 |
Presumed Complete |
|
career-offender controlled-substance judicial-discretion plea-agreement sentencing-guidelines sixth-circuit |
Question not identified. |
| 18-9659 |
In Re Quisi Bryan |
|
2019-06-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law death-penalty federal-review habeas-corpus hurst-claim hurst-v-florida jury-determination jury-trial retroactive-application retroactivity sixth-amendment sixth-circuit |
Bryan's habeas petition presents exceptional circumstances that, if left unresolved, will result in disparate interpretations of the federal Constitut… |
| 18-9443 |
Arthur L. Campbell v. Sherman Campbell, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-05-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction miller-el-v-cockrell procedural-error sixth-circuit standard-of-review statute-of-limitations |
I.
The Sixth Circuit conmitted plain error, contrary to Buck v. Davis,
137 S.Ct. 759 (2017) and Miller-E1 v.
v
Cockre11, 537 U.S. 322 (2003).
because … |
| 18-9420 |
Le'Ardrus Burris v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-05-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-statute divisibility divisibility-analysis felonious-assault mathis-precedent mathis-v-united-states ohio-law ohio-revised-code-2903a sixth-circuit state-v-harris statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Sixth Circuit's divisibility analysis ignores this Court's decision in Mathis v. United States, 579 U.S. __, 136 S. Ct. 2243 (2016) and Oh… |
| 18-1410 |
James A. Jackson v. Thomas Lawson |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-05-09 |
Denied |
|
constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment miranda-rights miranda-v-arizona self-incrimination sixth-circuit united-states-v-hale unlawful-detention |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit may condition enforcement of a citizen's right against unlawful detention guaranteed … |
| 18-9059 |
Geary Gilmore v. Shirlee Harry, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-05-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-review due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure merits-adjudication sixth-circuit standard-of-review supervisory-power |
I. Whether The United States Court Of Appeals For The Sixth Circuit Violated The Procedure Prescribed By 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(2) And Imposed An Imprope… |
| 18-9022 |
Maurice Edward Carter v. Mike Parris, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-violation fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel miranda-rights probable-cause search-and-seizure sixth-circuit |
Whether United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit decision to deny Mr. Carter's habeas corpus relief misconstrue meritorious unresolved fac… |
| 18-8937 |
Michael P. Johnson v. Mark Hooks, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-04-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2253 certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-constitutional-right federal-constitutional-rights federal-court-rulings habeas-corpus similar-facts sixth-circuit state-court-proceeding |
Whether a state habeas petitioner may satisfy his burden under 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(2) of making a substantial showing of a denial of a federal constit… |
| 18-8923 |
Ryan Watkins v. Norm Robinson, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-04-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appeals-court criminal-procedure district-court due-process federal-courts federal-law habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief re-sentencing sentencing sixth-amendment sixth-circuit successive-petition |
Whether Petitioner was entitled to present his claims after re-sentencing to the United States District Court of appeals.
Whether the Sixth Circuit C… |
| 18-8891 |
Warner Bernard Crider v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-04-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
§-2255 buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas-corpus merits-review procedural-review sixth-circuit |
Crider Filed Under § 2255 fostering several issues warranting a certificate of appealability. To Crider's dismay the Sixth Circuit denied all of issue… |
| 18-8898 |
Melinda J. Campbell v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-04-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law criminal-prosecution economic-harm hobbs-act hobbs-act,economic-harm,criminal-law,mens-rea,prec mens-rea precedent sixth-circuit supreme-court-precedent wrongful-conduct |
Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals disregarded this Court's established precedent set forth in United States v. Enmons, 410 U.S. 396 (1973), a… |
| 18-1305 |
Timothy O'Neill v. Unum Life Insurance Company of America |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-04-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure erroneous-interpretation hoover-precedent job-description judicial-review long-term-disability plan-administrator sixth-circuit social-security-disability stare-decisis stare-decisis,civil-procedure,due-process,appeals, |
Did the UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS for the SIXTH CIRCUIT wrongfully and grievously apply the doctrine of STARE DECISIS in upholding the decision o… |
| 18-1295 |
Dale De Steno, et al. v. Kelly Services, Inc. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-04-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review attorneys-fees civil-procedure civil-rights collateral-issue constitutional-rights due-process free-speech jury-trial precedent seventh-amendment sixth-circuit standing |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit erred by denying the Petitioners' request for a jury trial pursuant to the Seventh Am… |
| 18-1270 |
Henry M. Jagos, et ux. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-04-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-law administrative-procedure circuit-court-split circuit-split civil-procedure due-process eighth-circuit judicial-review jurisdiction notice-of-deficiency sixth-circuit standing tax-appeals tax-court tax-court-jurisdiction tax-procedure |
1. Did the Tax Court lack jurisdiction when it had no facially legitimate notice of deficiency?
2. Did the Sixth Circuit Court Of Appeals properly co… |
| 18-8647 |
Amilcar C. Butler v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-04-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
binding-authority circuit-court civil-procedure dicta judicial-precedent law-of-case law-of-the-case panel-opinion precedent sixth-circuit |
Is The Dicta Of A Prior Sixth Circuit Panel Opinion Law Of
The Case And Remain Binding On Any Other Panel, Despite Error. |
| 18-8621 |
Roummel Ingram v. John Prelesnik, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-03-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel public-trial sixth-amendment sixth-circuit |
Whether Mr. Ingram is entitled to a new trial, or alternatively a full evidentiary hearing, because his trial and appellate counsel rendered constitut… |
| 18-8560 |
Hakeem Sultaana v. Chae Harris, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-03-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-jurisdiction fact-claims habeas-corpus jurisdiction-powers-28-usc-1291 jurisdictional-powers pending pending-case publication sixth-circuit u.s.c.-section-1291 void-order |
WHETHER THE SIXTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS CAN IGNORE ITS JURISDICTION POWERS UNDER TITLE 28 U.S.C. § 1291 AND FILE A VOID ORDER ON OCTOBER 31, 2018 W… |
| 18-8463 |
Douglas A. Dyer v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-03-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court civil-procedure civil-remedy criminal-procedure double-jeopardy kokesh-v-sec sec sec-disgorgement sixth-circuit supreme-court-interpretation |
I. Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit erred in determining that the United States Supreme Court case of Kokesh v. SEC, 1… |
| 18-8416 |
Patrick Neil Kinney v. Connie Horton, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-03-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability certificate-of-appealability-28-usc-2253 circuit-split conditions-of-confinement due-process habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-2241,due-process,circuit-split,certi habeas-corpus-28-usc-2241 liberty-interest prison-conditions prison-misconduct property-interest sixth-circuit |
1. Did the Sixth Circuit err in denying a certificate of appealability under 28 U.S.C. 2253(c)(2) on the issue whether claims by prisoners challenging… |
| 18-8259 |
Nickie Thomas Gray, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-03-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-rights debatable-standard due-process fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurist-of-reason law-enforcement sixth-amendment sixth-circuit |
Gty Was Initially represented by counsel when he filed his § 2255, and application for a certificate of appealability The Court below along with the t… |
| 18-8131 |
Adelfo Pamatmat v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-02-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights drug-quantity evidentiary-hearing ineffective-assistance procedural-reasonableness sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment sixth-circuit strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-counsel |
I. WHETHER PETITIONER RECEIVED THE EFFECTIVE REPRESENTATION OF TRIAL COUNSEL WHEN COUNSEL FAILED TO PROPERLY INVESTIGATE THE CASE AND THE SIXTH CIRCUI… |
| 18-1082 |
Marianne Guzall v. City of Romulus, Michigan, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-02-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-court circuit-court-split civil-rights due-process evidence federal-rules-evidence free-speech hearsay motive-intent party-opponent sixth-circuit whistleblower-retaliation |
This case involves the Petitioner's disclosure of corruption within the Defendant City of Romulus' Mayor's office and her unlawful termination shortly… |
| 18-8048 |
Darnell D. Owens v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-02-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-interpretation criminal-history due-process federal-law historical-practice judicial-discretion propensity-evidence sixth-amendment sixth-circuit supervised-release |
Relying on historical practice dating back to English cases in the seventeenth century, the courts of appeals had consistently held that relying on a … |
| 18-1078 |
James Dawson, et al. v. Joshua Brennan |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-02-19 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (9) |
4th-amendment circuit-split curtilage fourth-amendment law-enforcement probation probation-condition probation-conditions search-and-seizure sixth-circuit |
Did the Sixth Circuit misapply this Court's authority and create a conflict among Circuits by holding that a law enforcement officer violates the Four… |
| 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… |
| 18-7929 |
Robert L. Burns, Jr. v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-02-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability circuit-court circuit-court-conflict civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-error sixth-circuit standing united-states-supreme-court |
Are the sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in conflict with the United States Supreme Court, and other Circuit Courts by derming a Certificate of Appealab… |
| 18-7872 |
Steven Torres v. Randee Rewerts, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-02-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights guidelines habeas-corpus judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-guidelines sixth-circuit upward-departure |
I. DID THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN AND THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT ERRONEOUSLY … |
| 18-7810 |
James Traxler v. Sherry Burt, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel merits-analysis merits-review sixth-circuit strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Whether The Sixth Circuit s Inquiry In Denying Petitioner's Motion For Certificate Of Appealability Was Coextensive With A Merits Analysis, When Concl… |
| 18-7678 |
Alfonso Hernandez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-01-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
client-attorney-relationship client-autonomy constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance motion-to-dismiss sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right-to-counsel sixth-circuit speedy-trial-act trial-counsel |
Can a defense lawyer, consistent with the Sixth Amendment, contravene his client's wishes to object to a violation of the Speedy Trial Act?
Whether t… |
| 18-7600 |
Johnathan Holt v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-procedure custody custody-analysis interrogation law-enforcement-interrogation miranda-custody miranda-v-arizona objective-analysis personal-mobility sixth-circuit sixth-circuit-interpretation totality-of-circumstances |
Under the objective analysis criteria established by Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436 (1966), and its progeny, must a court evaluate all of the circum… |
| 18-7389 |
Scott Smith v. Shane Jackson, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts judicial-proceedings manifest-injustice sixth-circuit supervisory-power |
WAS PETITIONER DENIED HIS FUNDAMENTAL AND CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS AS GUARANTEED UNDER BOTH STATE AND FEDERAL CONSTITUTIONS, WHEN THE FEDER… |
| 18-7390 |
Martin R. Stancik v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appeal-waiver circuit-split constitutional-error constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process sentencing sixth-circuit waiver |
Whether a criminal defendant's waiver of his right to appeal a sentence includes a waiver of the right to appeal a later, unforeseen constitutional du… |
| 18-7354 |
Derrick L. Johnson v. Charles Bradley, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure due-process federal-magistrate-act magistrate-judge notice procedural-rules service service-of-process sixth-circuit supervisory-power |
Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals failed to exercise it's supervisory power to establish a rule that preclude a United States District Magistrate Judge f… |
| 18-7282 |
Benjamin Edward Henry Bradley v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure drug-quantity due-process factual-findings objection presentence-report sentencing sixth-circuit |
Did the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals errer in affirming the district court's sentencing judgment where the district court adopted the Presentence Re… |
| 18-7216 |
Jason Duhamel v. Michelle Miller, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment affidavit appellate-review buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure civil-rights death-penalty declaration due-process habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis intellectual-disability miller-el-standard poverty redress sixth-circuit threshold-merits |
Whether the Sixth Circuit correctly applied this court's guidance from Miller-El v. Cockrell, 537 U.S. 322, 326 (2003) and Buck v. Davis, 137 S. Ct. 7… |
| 18-7149 |
Mary Danielak v. Shawn Brewer, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-12-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2254 circuit-split due-process federal-court federal-court-review habeas-review habeas-review-28-usc-2254-d-1 sixth-circuit state-court-opinion statutory-interpretation summary-reversal supreme-court-precedent wilson-v-sellers |
In Wilson v. Sellers, 138 S. Ct. 1188 (2018), this Court explicitly stated that a federal court on habeas review must look to the actual reasoning of … |
| 18-7127 |
Christopher French v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-12-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aggravated-burglary armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach circuit-court-review divisibility non-generic-crime sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation tennessee-burglary-statute |
Can a Tennessee Aggravated Burglary conviction serve as an armed Career Criminal Act predicate?
May a federal circuit court change a statutory burden… |
| 18-6957 |
Hakeem Sultaana v. Chae Harris, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-12-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-jurisdiction fact-claims habeas-corpus jurisdiction-powers-28-usc-1291 jurisdictional-powers pending pending-case publication sixth-circuit u.s.c.-section-1291 void-order |
WHETHER THE SIXTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS CAN IGNORE ITS JURISDICTION POWERS UNDER TITLE 28 U.S.C. § 1291 AND FILE A VOID ORDER ON AUGUST 20, 2018 WI… |
| 18-708 |
Robert L. Bertram, Jr., Bryan S. Wood, Robin G. Peavler, James W. Bottom, and Brian C. Walters v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-11-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
common-sense criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process duty fraud insurance insurance-fraud materiality sixth-circuit |
This Court has repeatedly held that a statement or
omission is materially misleading, and thus fraudulent, only
if it could influence the targeted dec… |
| 18-6761 |
Tellis T. Williams v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-11-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
advisory-sentencing-guidelines beckles-v-united-states career-offender-enhancement certificate-of-appealability certificate-of-appealability-coa due-process johnson-claim johnson-v-united-states sentencing-guidelines sixth-circuit vagueness-challenge |
1. When a Petitioner seeks a Certificate Of Appealability(COA)i based on whether this Court's decision in Beckles v. United States, 137 S 'Ct. 886, af… |
| 18-639 |
Marek Biszczanik v. Nationstar Mortgage, LLC, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-11-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
amended-complaint appeals appellate-review civil-procedure court-of-appeals dismissal district-court due-process federal-courts federal-jurisdiction judicial-review procedural-dismissal sixth-circuit standing |
WHETHER THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT ERRED IN AFFIRMING THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF MICH… |
| 18-6403 |
Chester Larvell Starnes, Jr. v. Shane Jackson, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-10-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-circuit appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process judicial-proceedings manifest-injustice sixth-circuit supervisory-power |
WAS PETITIONER DENIED HIS FUNDAMENTAL AND CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS AS GUARANTEED UNDER BOTH STATE AND FEDERAL CONSTITUTIONS, WHEN THE SIXTH… |
| 18-6408 |
Tiffany A. Prince v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-10-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law drug-offenses drug-overdose federal-courts federal-law physical-injury sentencing-guidelines significant-physical-injury sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation |
Whether a non-fatal drug overdose is a "significant physical injury" under
U.S.S.G. § 5K2.2. |
| 18-6193 |
Kenneth A. White v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability district-court due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus jurisdiction sixth-circuit |
Did the District Court err in failing to grant Mr. White a Certificate of Appealability on his Fifth Amendment argument? |
| 18-6171 |
Dion Terry Taylor v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion appellate-review district-court-discretion district-court-proceedings inter-circuit-inconsistency pinney-dock proof-standard sentencing sentencing-enhancement sixth-circuit sixth-circuit-standard standard-of-proof standard-of-review u-s-sentencing-guidelines u.s.s.g.-§5k2.1 unraised-claims |
1. Whether this honorable Court should grant certiorari to clarify the Sixth Circuit's "Pinney Dock" standard governing review of claims which were no… |
| 18-6117 |
Josette Buendia v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-09-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arthur-anderson bribery-statute circuit-split corrupt-intent criminal-intent federal-bribery-statute judicial-precedent school-vendor sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation united-states-v-rooney |
In Arthur Anderson LLP v. United States, this Court held that only people with immoral, depraved, wrongful, or evil motive, only people conscious of t… |
| 18-6010 |
Babubhai Patel v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-jurisdiction buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus jurisdiction miller-el-v-cockrell sixth-circuit standard-of-review supreme-court-precedent |
Did the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals sidestep [the COA] process in Petitioner Babubhai Patel's COA Application by first deciding the merits of an ap… |
| 18-5845 |
David L. Pierce v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-08-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability civil-procedure due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review order procedural-default sixth-circuit standing |
1.)
Did the Sixth Circuit Court Of Appeals err when it denied
petitoner a Certificate of Appealability based upon their "ORDER,"
(Appendix A) that sta… |
| 18-5839 |
James Frederick Rebmann v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-08-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-law drug-offense drug-offenses federal-sentencing federal-sentencing-guidelines felony-classification plain-reading possession-offenses prior-conviction prior-convictions sentencing-guidelines sixth-circuit statutory-interpretation |
The Federal Sentencing Guidelines require a base offense level of 43 if the defendant is "convicted under 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(A), (b)(1)(B), or (b)(… |
| 18-5769 |
Edward Smith v. LaShann Eppinger, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-08-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
affidavit-of-indigence anti-terrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act antiterrorism-and-effective-death-penalty-act civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-proceed rule-60(b) sixth-amendment sixth-circuit standard-of-review standing |
When a district court denies a state inmate's petition for writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2254, the inmate may appeal only if the district or… |
| 18-5666 |
Arthur Dennison v. Mark Hooks, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2254 certificate-of-appealability due-process federal-habeas-corpus federal-jurisdiction federal-review habeas-corpus sixth-circuit sixth-circuit-court-of-appeals state-prisoner statutory-interpretation |
DID THE SIXTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ERR IN DENYING A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY TO STATE PRISONER ARTHUR DENNISON TO CHALLENGE THE DENIAL OF HIS … |
| 18-5493 |
Maceo Gant v. Thomas Winn, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-08-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability district-court district-court-decision due-process federal-jurisdiction final-judgment habeas-corpus jurisdiction plea-bargain plea-conviction sixth-circuit state-court-conviction unresolved-claims |
Whether the sixth circuit had warrant to assume jurisdiction and consider petitioner's unresolved challenges to his state court plea conviction, where… |
| 18-5417 |
David Hardy v. William Adams, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-07-31 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
article-vi civil-procedure civil-rights constitution constitutional-duty due-process judicial-bias judicial-conduct legal-precedent rule-10 sixth-circuit sixth-circuit-court-of-appeals standing supreme-court |
Do federal judges have a constitutional duty to uphold the U.S. Constitution, via, the mandate language of Article VI of same Constitution?
Plaintiff… |
| 18A100 |
Dion Terry Taylor v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-07-27 |
Presumed Complete |
|
certiorari extension-of-time jurisdiction petition sixth-circuit supreme-court |
Question not identified. |
| 18-5090 |
Quonshay Douglas-Ricardo Mason v. DeWayne Burton, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-07-02 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
aedpa cumulative-error due-process habeas-corpus judicial-bias judicial-misconduct offutt-v-united-states sixth-circuit standard-of-review state-court-adjudication ungar-v-sarafite |
WHETHER THE SIXTH CIRCUIT, IN LIGHT OF THE CLEARLY ESTABLISHED HOLDINGS OF OFFUTT V. UNITED STATES, 348 U.S. 11, 13 (1954), AND UNGAR V. SARAFITE, 376… |
| 18A10 |
Quonshay Douglas-Ricardo Mason v. DeWayne Burton |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-06-29 |
Presumed Complete |
|
certiorari legal-research prisoner-rights pro-se sixth-circuit time-extension |
Question not identified. |
| 24A419 |
Cynthia Davis, Warden v. David M. Smith |
Sixth Circuit |
|
Presumed Complete |
|
criminal-conviction federal-review habeas-corpus mandate sixth-circuit state-court |
Question not identified. |