Joseph Sheely, et al. v. Harold R. Feezle, et al.

Issue I: Whether a district court’s imposition of an appeal bond for the expressed purpose of inhibiting appellants’ pursuit of their statutory right of appeal, by factoring speculative or legally prohibited costs into determining the bond amount contrary to F.R.A.P. 7, is reviewable on motion in the affected, pending appeal as an alternative to filing an entirely new appeal, where the 6th Circuit’s contrary reasoning creates both a split of authority among circuits and a dichotomy between the appellate rights of the wealthy and non-wealthy contrary to 5th and 14th Amendment equal protection principles. Issue II: Whether the 6th Circuit’s dismissal of Petitioners’ merits appeals for failure to file appeal bond, without providing Petitioners’ a reasonable opportunity to post bond after dismissing their separate bond appeal and denying reconsideration of their motions to eliminate bond, violated binding precedents and was predicated on specious reasoning. .