United States Sixth Circuit - June 2004 Opinion Summaries

DERUNGS v. WAL-MART STORES, INC.

Civil Rights
Defendant store's policy requiring plaintiffs to breast-feed their children in a restroom or to leave the store to do so did not amount to gender...

PHILLIPS v. MILLION

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
Plaintiff's habeas petition alleging lack of personal guilt, and court err in failing to allow a jury instruction on self-defense, as well as in...

US v. KOCH

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Defendant unsuccessfully appealed his sentence, alleging the court erred in calculating the amount of drugs involved in the conspiracy, misapplied the...

AUTOZONE, INC. v. TANDY COPR.

Intellectual Property, Trademark
Plaintiffs' trademark infringement claim was rejected because they did not presented enough evidence such that a reasonable jury could conclude that...

BITUMINOUS CASULTY CORP. v. J & L LUMBER CO. INC.

Civil Procedure, Insurance Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a dispute concerning insurance coverage hinging on whether or not an injured party was an uninsured employee, a federal declaratory judgment was...

MICHIGAN EXPRESS v. US

Government Benefits
Defendants unsuccessfully challenged their fining by Food and Nutrition Services, a division of the Department of Agriculture, for accepting food...

US v. PARKER

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
Evidence seized under a warrant issued by a trial commissioner who was also an administrative assistant at the county jail was properly excluded,...

CRESTVIEW PARKE CARE CTR. v. THOMPSON

Administrative Law, Elder Law, Government Benefits, Health Law
An administrative law judge erred by refusing to hold an in person evidentiary hearing regarding whether respondent care centers complied with...

THOMPSON v. BELL

Civil Procedure, Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
The court, reconsidering its earlier decision before the issue of mandate, remanded defendant's habeas petition to the district court for a full...

WILSON AIR CENTER, LLC v. FAA

Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Transportation
Court affirmed FAA's ruling rejecting plaintiff's claim that a local airport violated its obligations under federal law prohibiting unjust economic...