United States Sixth Circuit - July 2009 Opinion Summaries

Green v. King James Coal Mining, Inc.

Administrative Law, Government Benefits, Health Law
In a petition for review of an order of the Benefits Review Board denying petitioner's claim for benefits under the Black Lung Benefits Act, the...

Rutherford v. Columbia Gas

Civil Procedure, Property Law & Real Estate, Public Utilities
In an action challenging a gas company's ability to maintain its pipeline easement by clearing certain trees from plaintiff's land, judgment for...

Detroit Receiving Hosp. & Univ. Health Ctr. v. Sebelius

Government Benefits, Health Law
In an action challenging a Department of Health and Human Services regulation preventing hospitals from recovering certain bad debts from Medicare...

Cady v. Arenac Cty.

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure, Injury & Tort Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action claiming that the state, as a condition for dismissing the criminal assault and battery charges pending against...

US v. Huntington Nat'l. Bank

Asset Forfeiture, Banking Law, Civil Procedure, Criminal Law & Procedure
In an action by a lender seeking to recover assets from a borrower that were seized by the government, a ruling for the government is reversed where...

Reese v. CNH Am. LLC

Contracts, ERISA, Labor & Employment Law
In an ERISA action seeking a declaration that plaintiffs-employees were entitled to lifetime health benefits under a collective bargaining agreement...

US v. See

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
In a prosecution for possession of a firearm with a removed serial number, denial of defendant's motion to suppress is reversed where the police did...

Helfman v. GE Group Life Assurance Co.

ERISA, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an ERISA action seeking disability benefits, summary judgment for defendant is affirmed in part where, if an employer contributes to any employee's...

Biegas v. Quickway Carriers, Inc.

Injury & Tort Law
In a personal injury action involving an auto accident, judgment for defendant is affirmed in part where all claims of common-law gross negligence...

Ganim v. Columbia Cas. Co.

Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Insurance Law
In an action alleging that Defendant-Insurer breached its insurance agreement in bad faith by refusing to defend Plaintiff in an arbitration, summary...