United States Sixth Circuit

Detroit City Code 18-13-6(a)(2), which gave preferences for gambling licenses to companies that helped legalize off-reservation gambling in the state legislature, violates the First Amendment and the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/24/2001
• Decided 01/11/2002
• Published 01/11/2002

Judges

• Before:  MARTIN, Chief Judge;  MOORE, Circuit Judge;  O'MALLEY, District Judge.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• G. Michael Fenner (argued), Creighton University School of Law, Conly J. Schulte (briefed), Monteau & Peebles, Omaha, NE, for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Morley Witus (argued and briefed), Barris, Sott, Denn & Driker, Detroit, MI, Bruce R. Greene (briefed), Boulder, CO, John D. Pirich (briefed), John S. Kane (briefed), Honigman, Miller, Schwartz & Cohn, Lansing, MI, for Appellees.