United States Sixth Circuit - Opinion Summaries

Warshak v. US

Civil Procedure, Criminal Law & Procedure, Cyberspace Law, Evidence, Remedies
A preliminary injunction, prohibiting the government from seizing "the contents of any personal e-mail account maintained by an Internet Service...

Ramonez v. Berghuis

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Habeas Corpus
Denial of a petition for a writ of habeas corpus challenging a conviction for home invasion, assault with intent to do great bodily harm, and...

US v. Bailey

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
A sentence for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and aiding and abetting possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine is affirmed over...

Elias v. Gonzales

Evidence, Immigration Law
In an asylum case brought by petitioner, a native of Iraq and a Chaldean Christian, petition for review of a BIA decision dismissing petitioner's...

Walls v. Konteh

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
In a criminal case in which a trial judge found that the 9/11 attacks created the kind of "manifest necessity" that justified a mistrial, grant of a...

Bu v. Gonzales

Evidence, Immigration Law
A decision denying petitioner asylum is remanded for further proceedings where: 1) the IJ misapprended the nature of petitioner's claim that he had...

Matovski v. Gonzales

Administrative Law, Immigration Law
A BIA decision finding petitioners-Macedonian citizens deportable is reversed in part pursuant to a claim that the BIA erred when it ruled that an IJ...

Thoroughbred Software Int'l, Inc. v. Dice Corp.

Attorney's Fees, Copyright, Cyberspace Law, Intellectual Property, Remedies
An award of damages and attorney's fees in a case in which defendant was found liable for copyright infringement of certain business accounting...

Klepsky v. United Parcel Serv., Inc.

Civil Procedure, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law, Transportation, Workers' Compensation
In an action brought by a seasonal driver for UPS claiming that he was terminated in violation of the Ohio Whistleblower Protection Act and Ohio...

Geboy v. Brigano

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Habeas Corpus
In a criminal matter arising from allegations that petitioner sexually abused his biological daughter over an eleven-year period, a grant of habeas...