United States Sixth Circuit - September 2010 Opinion Summaries

Int'l Dairy Foods Ass'n v. Boggs

Commercial Law, Constitutional Law, Consumer Protection Law, Government Law
In a suit brought by two separate dairy-processor trade organizations, challenging a regulation adopted by the Ohio Department of Agriculture's (ODA),...

Adams v. US

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
In a prosecution of defendant for conspiracy to distribute cocaine base, district court's imposition of an increased statutory minimum sentence from...

In re: NM Holdings Co., LLC

Bankruptcy Law, Civil Procedure, Corp. Governance, Corporation & Enterprise Law
In a bankruptcy trustee's suit against debtor-company's former auditor, claiming that the auditor negligently performed its audits by failing to...

Warrior Sports, Inc. v. Nat'l Collegiate Athletic Ass'n

Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Commercial Law, Government Law, Sports Law
In a suit brought by a manufacturer and distributor of lacrosse sticks against the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), claiming that, by...

Meister v. US Dep't of Agric. & US Forest Serv,

Administrative Law, Environmental Law, Government Law
In plaintiff's suit against the United States Forest Service's (Service), claiming that the Service disregarded relevant criteria and failed to comply...

Hodgson v. Warren

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Evidence
District court's determination that defendant, convicted of attempted murder, received ineffective assistance of counsel and that the state court's...

Am. Energy Corp. v. Rockies Express Pipeline LLC.

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Government Law, Oil and Gas Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In the parties' third action over a land-use dispute between coal companies and a pipeline company involving the Federal Energy Regulatory...

Beaven v. U.S. Dep't of Justice

Civil Rights, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law, Remedies
In a Federal Tort Claims Act and Privacy Act case brought by staff members at the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) claiming that defendants allowed an...

Brown v. Owens Corning Inv. Review Comm.

Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Corporation & Enterprise Law, ERISA, Labor & Employment Law, Securities Law
In former Owens Corning (OC) employees' class action lawsuit against the fiduciaries of their retirement plans pursuant to the Employee Retirement...

Northville Downs v. Granholm

Civil Rights, Commercial Law, Government Law, Constitutional Law, Gaming Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 suit brought by operators of horse-racing tracks, claiming that article IV, section 41 of the Michigan Constitution, as...