United States Sixth Circuit - Opinion Summaries

US v. Christman

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
A sentence for possession of materials constituting child pornography is reversed and remanded where defendant's sentence was imposed in violation of...

Ilic-Lee v. Mukasey

Civil Procedure, Immigration Law
Serbian citizen's petition for review of BIA decisions affirming an IJ's denial of petitioner's motion for continuance, vacating the IJ's denial of...

US v. Conces

Civil Procedure, Government Law, Remedies, Tax Law
In an action brought by the government seeking to enjoin defendant from promoting an alleged tax-fraud scheme and engaging in other conduct allegedly...

Doe v. Bredesen

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
The Tennessee Sexual Offender and Violent Sexual Offender Registration, Verification, and Tracking Act of 2004 and the Tennessee Serious and Violent...

Mazur v. Young

Contracts, Property Law & Real Estate
Under Michigan law, a judgment for possession after forfeiture extinguishes a land contract, leaving no legal basis for a seller to pursue further...

Ivory v. Jackson

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Habeas Corpus
In habeas proceedings arising from a conviction and sentence for second-degree murder and a related firearm offense for defendant's murder of his...

Commercial Money Ctr., Inc. v. Illinois Union Ins. Co.

Banking Law, Bankruptcy Law, Commercial Law, Contracts, Insurance Law
In a dispute over an insurer's obligations, which arose within part of multidistrict litigation resulting out of the collapse of plaintiff-bankruptcy...

Robert v. Tesson

Family Law, International Law
In an action alleging that petitioner's estranged wife illegally abducted the parties' twins to the U.S., and that the Hague Convention on the Civil...

Seawright v. Am. Gen. Fin. Servs., Inc.

Civil Rights, Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Labor & Employment Law
In an appeal in a state antidiscrimination law and Family and Medical Leave Act case brought by a terminated employee against defendant-employer,...

Does v. Munoz

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
In a challenge to the constitutionality of Michigan's Setting Aside Convictions Act (SACA) and Sex Offender Registration Act (SORA), an order...