United States Sixth Circuit - May 2002 Opinion Summaries

IN RE: CITY OF MEMPHIS

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Evidence, Government Law
Interlocutory review, of an order holding that postenactment evidence cannot be presented by a city to demonstrate a compelling need for awarding...

VAUGHN v. WATKINS MOTOR LINES, INC.

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
Where employees exercised the judgment and discretion necessary to be classified as "loaders," the Fair Labor Standards Act's overtime-wage provisions...

US v. BENNETT

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Sufficient factual basis for a guilty plea must exist at sentencing, when judgment was entered, not at the guilty plea hearing, and such basis did...

US v. OSBORNE

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Resentencing is mandated where the court failed to ascertain whether one defendant and his counsel read and discussed the presentence report prior to...

US v. CROWE

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
Circuit Court will not hear an ineffective assistance of counsel claim for the first time on direct appeal, where there has not been an opportunity to...

COOLEY v. GRANHOLM

Constitutional Law, Health Law
Challenge by two doctors to the constitutionality of Michigan's anti-euthanasia statutes is both moot and not ripe for consideration because neither...

PAC. EMPLOYERS INS. CO. v. SAV-A-LOT OF WINCHESTER

Civil Procedure
Under Rule 15.03(2) of the Kentucky Rules of Civil Procedure, where a party to be brought in had not received notice of an action within the...

MACIAS v. MAKOWSKI

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
Prosecutor's attack of the veracity of defendant's key alibi witness during closing rebuttal, based on facts not raised during cross-examination, was...

JAMISON v. COLLINS

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
Where police department and prosecutors suppressed material which was both exculpatory to defendant and useful for impeachment of government...

LORRAINE v. COYLE

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
Finding of ineffective assistance was unreasonable where counsel attempted to investigate and develop mitigating evidence, and to humanize appellant...