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Tonya Lee Randleman v. Firelands Habitat for Humanity, Inc.

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, No. 24-3640 · judgment September 4, 2024


Certiorari denied · January 12, 2026
Pre-decision estimate: 0% cert probability

Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.

Questions presented

Under, the “Federal Priority Statute,” also known as 31 U.S.C. § 3713, essentially establishes that when a debtor is insolvent, the United States must be paid first, meaning any government claims take priority over other creditors in a bankruptcy or insolvency proceeding ensuring the government receives its due payment even when debtor has limited assets to distribute. This statute mandates that government claims must be paid before any other creditor when a debtor is insolvent, including situations like voluntary assignment of property, attachment of property, or bankruptcy. Under 11 U.S.C. § 547(b), it authorizes the trustee to avoid a transfer if five conditions are met. The act of pillaging is prohibited by Article 33 of the Fourth Geneva Convention (1949) and its Additional Protocol II of (1977). With this Article, alongside the pay first Statute the question presented here, on which the federal district court remanded case back to the state court., are:

  1. Whether Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 of the U.S. Constitution granted to the district court the power to remand case back to the state court to regulate commerce with international business, trading, loans, labor, and land with Indians;

  2. Whether appellee a subsidiary submission of a false and misleading corporate disclosure statement in the six circuit violated the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002; ignored by the court constitutes fraud upon the court for complicit involvement in appellees fiduciary duty the honest services fraud statute fits;

  3. Whether the district court and the circuit courts failure to cite any state statute based on state law in its decision to remand, transfer, and dismiss likely unconstitutional on its face because there is no law to argue the courts decisions are void for vagueness and 5th Amendment due process violations.

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Tonya Lee Randleman

For respondent

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 2 conferences

Proceedings

  1. Mar 23 2026
    Rehearing DENIED.
  2. Mar 04 2026
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/20/2026.
  3. Feb 03 2026
    Petition for Rehearing filed.
  4. Feb 03 2026
    Motion for leave to proceed further herein in forma pauperis.
  5. Jan 12 2026
    Petition DENIED.
  6. Dec 16 2025
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/9/2026.
  7. Jan 05 2025
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due December 5, 2025)