United States Sixth Circuit - Opinion Summaries

White v. Wyndham Vacation Ownership, Inc.

Bankruptcy Law, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
In plaintiff's sexual harassment suit against her former employers seeking $250,000 in compensatory damages and $1 million in punitive damages,...

US v. Eubanks

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing, Juvenile Law
In a prosecution of defendant for being a felon in possession of a firearm, district court's use of defendant's juvenile conviction for felonious...

Japarkulova v. Holder

Government Law, Immigration Law
A petition for review, by a citizen of the Kyrgyz Republic, of an order of the BIA denying her application for asylum is denied where: 1) although the...

Elkins v. Summit County

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law
In plaintiff's suit against a city and multiple officers and detectives on variety of state and federal claims, arising from a conviction for raping...

Spees v. James Marine, Inc.

Civil Rights, Evidence, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
In plaintiff's suit against her former employer and its subsidiary for pregnancy and disability discrimination, district court's grant of summary...

US v. Cecil

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing, Evidence
District court's conviction of a former police officer for drug related offenses and imposition of a 144-month sentence are affirmed where: 1)...

Gen. Conference Corp. of Seventh-Day Adventists v. McGill

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Intellectual Property, Trademark, Tax-exempt Organizations
In the Seventh-Day Adventists Church's trademark infringement suit against a defendant based on his use of their protected marks in advertising and...

US v. Williams

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
In a prosecution of defendant for being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition, district court's suppression of physical evidence and...

Pinchon v. Myers

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
In habeas proceedings of a defendant convicted of first degree murder of his adult male lover and sentenced to life in prison (defendant was seventeen...

US v. People First of Tennessee

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Health Law, Remedies
In a case arising from the district court's original 1993 ruling that the state was violating the substantive due process rights of mentally retarded...