United States Sixth Circuit - Opinion Summaries

Blair v. Henry Filters, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
In an age discrimination action brought against a former employer under state and federal laws, summary judgment for the employer is reversed as...

Nestle Waters N. Am., Inc. v. Bollman

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Property Law & Real Estate, Water Law
In an action brought by plaintiff against defendants seeking declaratory and injunctive relief regarding its rights to certain subsurface waters that...

Skowronek v. Am. Steamship Co.

Contracts, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a challenge to the validity of a maintenance rate that was applicable to ill crew members and was one of the terms of a collective bargaining...

DeBusscher v. Sam's E., Inc.

Evidence, Injury & Tort Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In an action brought by plaintiff who was injured when a portable basketball goal fell on her while she was shopping in a Sam's Club store, summary...

US v. Smith

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
A 132-month sentence for bank robbery is affirmed where defendant's above-the-Guidelines sentence was both procedurally and substantively reasonable,...

Lennon v. Metro. Life Ins. Co.

Contracts, ERISA, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an ERISA action arising from a denial of Personal Accident Insurance benefits to the beneficiary of an insured who died as result of his own drunk...

US v. McGrattan

Criminal Law & Procedure, Cyberspace Law, Sentencing
A sentence for using a computer connected to the internet to persuade a minor to engage in illegal sexual activity and knowingly receiving and...

US v. Kenny

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
A conviction for being a felon in possession of a firearm is affirmed over meritless claims that the district court erred in denying his motion to...

Lazar v. Gonzales

Immigration Law
Petition for review of a decision declaring Iraqi native petitioner's asylum application frivolous is denied as: 1) petitioner could not blame his...

Stewart v. Erwin

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Sentencing
Denial of a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in a sexual battery case is reversed and remanded to supplement the record or grant the writ as: 1)...