United States Sixth Circuit - August 2009 Opinion Summaries

Pedreira v. Ky. Baptist Homes for Children

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law, Tax-exempt Organizations
In an action under the First Amendment and various employment statutes challenging defendant-Baptist Homes for Children's policy of firing and not...

Beaudry v. TeleCheck Servs., Inc.

Banking Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) action claiming that Defendant credit agency wrongly classified Plaintiff as a first-time check writer, the...

Montgomery v. Wyeth

Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Injury & Tort Law
In an action claiming that Plaintiff suffered injuries by using Defendant's weight loss drug, the dismissal of the action is affirmed where: 1) the...

Karimijanaki v. Holder

Administrative Law, Immigration Law
In a petition for review of the BIA's order removing Petitioner from the U.S., the petition is denied where sufficient evidence supported the BIA's...

US v. Acierno

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
Defendant's conviction for using a facility of interstate commerce with the intent that a murder be committed in consideration for payment of money...

Hunter v. Valley View Local Schs.

Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an action claiming that defendant-employer impermissibly considered plaintiff's use of Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) leave in deciding to...

US v. Brown

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Defendant's child pornography sentence is affirmed where, applying a "limited context" test that permits consideration of the context in which the...

Briscoe v. Preferred Health Plan, Inc.

ERISA, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an ERISA action claiming that defendant-health plan failed to disclose to its client's employees that the client would be unable to fund its future...

In re: Bunn

Bankruptcy Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In an appeal from a bankruptcy court's order setting aside the debtor's mortgage, the order is reversed where, under Ohio law, a recorded mortgage...

US v. Salti

Asset Forfeiture, Criminal Law & Procedure
In an appeal from a dismissal of a petition asserting an interest in a bank account the court had ordered forfeited as a result of the government's...