United States Sixth Circuit - June 2002 Opinion Summaries

BEZTAK LAND CO. v. CITY OF DETROIT

Property Law & Real Estate
A corporation lacked standing to challenge a city's process for selecting casino developers, based on its representation that it had no intention of...

FARMER v. CLEVELAND PUB. POWER

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law
A First Amendment employment retaliation claim is not actionable where the employee failed to show that her speech was a substantial factor in the...

MAHON v. CROWELL

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
In an employee's claim that the Tennessee Valley Authority fired him because of a disability, a back condition did not meet the statutory test for...

FIVECAP INC. v NAT'L LABOR RELATIONS BD.

Corporation & Enterprise Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a dispute surrounding a union organizing campaign at a non-profit corporation, the corporation engaged in numerous anti-union activities in...

US v. MIAMI UNIV.

Constitutional Law, Education Law, Media Law
University disciplinary records are "educational records" under the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), and an injunction against the...

MILLER v. FID. SEC. LIFE INS. CO.

Contracts, Insurance Law
Because Ohio Revised Code section 3923.57, placing limits on the reach of pre-existing condition clauses in insurance policies, did not apply to a...

US v. CLARK

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Trial jury could properly accept the testimony of one expert and reject that of another, in finding that defendant was not insane during commission of...

CITY OF FLINT v. LEXINGTON INS. CO.

Civil Rights, Insurance Law
Based on strict construction of coverage and exclusions in a Public Officials and Employees Liability Insurance Policy, an insurer was obligated to...

BARTON v. SUMMERS

Constitutional Law, Government Benefits, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
Medicaid recipients with tobacco-related illnesses, seeking to intercept tobacco settlement money due to two States, are barred by the Eleventh...

F.A. WILHELM CONSTR. CO., INC. v. KENTUCKY STATE DIST. COUNCIL OF CARPENTERS

Labor & Employment Law
Where a union sought to persuade secondary employees to boycott the primary employer, an unlawful "secondary boycott" under section 8(b)(4) of the...