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Robert James Cornett v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, No. 25-1484 · judgment November 21, 2025


Certiorari denied · March 30, 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

  1. Whether a court of appeals may, by clerk correspondence rather than judicial order, refuse to accept for filing or to docket a timely petition for panel rehearing—contrary to FRAP 25(a)(4) and 40(d)(1)—thereby departing from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings under Supreme Court Rule 10(a).

  2. Whether, by foreclosing filing and leaving no judicial rehearing order, a court of appeals may defeat the operation of Supreme Court Rule 13.3 and thereby preclude review absent this Court’s supervisory intervention.

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Robert James Cornett

For respondent
Ann Maurine Sherman
Michigan Department of Attorney General

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 2 conferences

Proceedings

  1. May 18 2026
    Rehearing DENIED.
  2. Apr 28 2026
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/14/2026.
  3. Apr 03 2026
    Petition for Rehearing filed.
  4. Mar 30 2026
    Petition DENIED.
  5. Mar 11 2026
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/27/2026.
  6. Feb 03 2026
    Waiver of right of respondent Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson to respond filed.
  7. Jan 19 2026
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due March 2, 2026)