Billy Jack Crutsinger v. Lorie Davis

Summary

Justice Sotomayor denied the petition for a writ of certiorari, finding that petitioner Billy Jack Crutsinger had not demonstrated the extraordinary circumstances required for relief under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b)(6). She noted a potential tension between the Supreme Court’s decision in Gonzalez and the Fifth Circuit’s categorical rule that a change in decisional law alone does not constitute extraordinary circumstances.