United States Sixth Circuit - Opinion Summaries

US v. White

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Despite the panel's intent to reverse defendant's 14-year-upward adjustment based specifically on conduct for which the jury had acquitted the...

US v. Malone

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
A district court's consideration of a defendant's possible state court sentence as part of its sentencing calculus is improper and renders the...

Murphy v. Cockrell

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an action brought against defendant, as an individual and in her official capacity as county property valuation administrator, alleging violations...

Spencer v. ADT Sec. Servs., Inc.

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Injury & Tort Law
In an action claiming that defendant-ADT is responsible for plaintiff's mother's death by failing to dispatch an ambulance to her address after she...

Prater v. Ohio Educ. Ass'n

Class Actions, Contracts, ERISA, Education Law, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an action brought by retired employees of defendant claiming that defendant improperly terminated their health benefits, which allegedly had become...

United Steel Workers of Am. AFL-CIO-CLC v. St. Gobain Ceramics & Plastics, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Labor & Employment Law
In an action in federal district court under section 301 of the Labor Management Relations Act to compel arbitration of the two grievances under a...

US v. Kirchhof

Criminal Law & Procedure, Cyberspace Law, Sentencing
A conviction and sentence for transporting and receiving child pornography over the internet is affirmed where the sentence was procedurally and...

Wysong v. Dow Chem. Co.

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a Family and Medical Leave Act, and state law discrimination and wrongful discharge suit brought against Dow Chemical company after it terminated...

Midwest Media Prop., L.L.C. v. Symmes Township, Ohio

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Media Law
In an action claiming that a township's sign regulations violated the First and Fourteenth Amendment, summary judgment for the township is affirmed...

Smith v. Nationwide Prop. & Cas. Ins. Co.

Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Commercial Law, Contracts, Insurance Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In a putative class action brought against defendant-insurer arising from an agreement to repair plaintiff's automobile, which was damaged in an...