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Faith Townsend v. Rockwell Automation, Inc., et al.

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, No. 24-3680 · judgment March 5, 2025


0%
estimated cert probability
(petition-stage, structural)
GVR risk 0%

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

Questions presented

TO THE COURT

  1. Is it a violation of U.S. Const, amend. XIV, § 1 due process when a court purposely drives a complaint into the appeals phase to the Supreme court as a way to adjudicate the case. By applying laws differently from the cases it cites, adjudicated in its court and differently from the Supreme court?

  2. Is it a violation of U.S. Const, amend. XIV, § 1 due process for a court to present defenses on behalf of a defendant, while denying the plaintiff opportunity to respond to those defenses and denying the plaintiff full benefit of precedent setting cases it cites to?

  3. Is it a violation of U.S. Const, amend. XIV, § 1 due process when a judge convert claims and motions into other claims and motions, such as a motion for leave into the motion and a claim of fraud on the Court FRCP 60(d)3 into fraud FRCP 60(b)3 when it’s reason for doing so is not supported by the facts?

  4. Is it a violation of U.S. Const, amend. XIV, § 1 due process when the court aggressively defends the defendant but refuses to read or give any credence to the plaintiff’s complaint?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Faith Townsend

For respondent

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Aug 26 2026
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/28/2026.
  2. May 31 2025
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due August 10, 2026)