United States Sixth Circuit - Opinion Summaries

US v. King

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
U.S. Sentencing Guidelines Manual (U.S.S.G.) section 2D1.1(a)(1) does not contain any implicit time limitations with regard to when a court is...

US v. Bell

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
A conviction and sentence for drug- and firearm-related offenses is reversed and remanded for a new trial where: 1) the district court erred by...

US v. Goins

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
When a defendant is held for thirty days or longer in pretrial detention, and he is later convicted for the offense for which he was held, and his...

Eady v. Morgan

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Habeas Corpus
Denial of a petition for a writ of habeas corpus from a conviction for second degree murder is affirmed over challenges to the sufficiency of the...

Quick Communications, Inc. v. Michigan Bell Tel. Co.

Administrative Law, Communications Law, Constitutional Law, Contracts, Government Law
In a suit seeking declaratory and injunctive relief arising from a state commission's action in ordering parties to amend their interconnection...

Dearth v. Mukasey

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Government Law
In a suit brought to enjoin the enforcement of the provisions of 18 U.S.C. section 922 that prohibit non-residents of the United States from receiving...

Li v. Mukasey

Civil Procedure, Immigration Law
Petition for review of a denial of Chinese petitioner's second motion to reopen removal proceedings is dismissed for lack of jurisdiction where, by...

US v. Thompson

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
A sentence for offenses related to a drug transaction that turned into an armed robbery is affirmed in part, but reversed in part as to a ten-year...

Amadasu v. Mercy Fanciscan Hosp.

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law, Professional Malpractice
In a pro se action against a hospital raising claims related to psychiatric treatment provided by defendants, their failure to hire plaintiff for...

Slyman v. City of Piqua

Civil Rights, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an action alleging procedural due process violations against a city and plaintiff's supervisor in its discharge of plaintiff, summary judgment for...