United States Sixth Circuit - January 2010 Opinion Summaries

Robinson v. Mills

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Habeas Corpus
District court's grant of conditional habeas relief to a defendant convicted of first degree murder is affirmed as withholding impeachment evidence...

US v. McFalls

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
District court's classification of defendant as a career offender under U.S.S.G. section 4B1.1 based on his prior convictions in South Carolina for...

Fritz v. Charter Township of Comstock

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In plaintiff's retaliation claim under 42 U.S.C. section 1983 against a town and one of its supervisors, partial grant of defendant's motion for...

B-Line, LLC v. Wingerter

Bankruptcy Law, Civil Procedure, Sanctions
In Chapter 13 proceedings, the decision of the bankruptcy court in holding that plaintiff's purchase of a creditor's claim against the debtors was not...

Kellermann v. Holder

Administrative Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Immigration Law
A petition for review of BIA's final order of removal of a German citizen is denied as, petitioner's convictions under 18 U.S.C. sections 371 and 1001...

Smith v. Bradshaw

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Habeas Corpus, Sentencing
A denial of a request for habeas relief by a defendant convicted and sentenced to death for raping and murdering a six-month-old baby is affirmed...

US v. Gillis

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
District court's imposition of a sentence of 262 months' imprisonment followed by six years of supervised release on a defendant convicted of...

Jaradat v. Williams

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Habeas Corpus
District court's denial of a petition for habeas relief by a defendant convicted of rape and kidnapping is affirmed as the physical evidence...

Am. Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky v. Grayson County

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law
In an action by the ACLU against a county challenging a display of the Ten Commandments in a County Fiscal Court, district court's finding that the...

US v. Camiscione

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Re-imposition of a sentence upon remand on a defendant convicted of possessing child pornography is vacated and remanded as the district court imposed...