United States Sixth Circuit - Opinion Summaries

Revis v. Meldrum

Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Debt Collection
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action brought against persons and entities involved in executing certain writs of execution against plaintiff, it was...

City of Cookeville v. Upper Cumberland Elec. Membership Corp.

Civil Procedure, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Public Utilities, Remedies
In a dispute over an element of compensation that Tennessee law requires when a city annexes territory and exercises its right to purchase electric...

Bouggess v. Mattingly

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law
In the context of civil rights actions, an officer who employs deadly force against a fleeing suspect without reason to believe that the suspect is...

Littriello v. US

Administrative Law, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Labor & Employment Law, Tax Law
In a challenge to the Treasury Department's so-called "check-the-box" regulations, which were promulgated in 1996 to simplify the classification of...

US v. Cohen

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
In a prosecution for being a felon in possession of ammunition and a firearm, grant of a motion to suppress evidence is affirmed where officers lacked...

US v. Graham

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
A conviction for being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm is affirmed over a claim that the firearm at issue, which was found during a Terry...

Macy v. Hopkins County Sch. Bd. of Educ.

Civil Rights, Education Law, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an action brought by a physical education teacher alleging that a school board violated federal and state law by firing her because she was...

Wenner v. Sun Life Assurance Co. of Canada

ERISA, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law, Remedies
A district court's rejection of a plan administrator's decision to discontinue disability benefits to a company's COO under his employer's disability...

US v. Franco

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Sentencing
Defendant's conviction for possession with intent to distribute cocaine is affirmed over claims of error regarding: 1) admission of "other acts"...

Smith v. Comm'r of Soc. Sec.

Administrative Law, Government Benefits, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
A denial of disability insurance benefits to claimant by the Social Security Administration is affirmed over her claims that the decision neither...