United States Sixth Circuit - Opinion Summaries

Fed. Deposit Ins. Corp. v. Dover

Administrative Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Summary judgment against the FDIC in its suit to collect $19.6 million under a criminal restitution order entered pursuant to the Victim and Witness...

Crooks v. Comm'r of Internal Revenue

Administrative Law, Tax Law
A tax court order assessing tax deficiencies and penalties against petitioners for certain tax years is affirmed where the tax court properly...

US v. Worley

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
A sentence for conspiring to manufacture and distribute methamphetamine is affirmed over a claim that, at defendant's second sentencing hearing...

US v. Shepherd

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
The rationale of Booker applies equally to sentences imposed pursuant to 18 U.S.C. section 3553(b)(1) or 18 U.S.C. section 3553(b)(2). A sentence for...

Keith v. Mitchell

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Habeas Corpus
In a death penalty murder case, denial of a petition for a writ of habeas corpus is affirmed over claims of error regarding: 1) ineffective assistance...

Thomas v. Cohen

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate
Summary judgment for defendants-police officers in a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 case involving allegations that plaintiffs' rights were violated when...

Shreve v. Jessamine County Fiscal Court

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law
Summary judgment for defendants-sheriff's deputies, who allegedly used excessive force in violation of 42 U.S.C. sections 1983 and 1985, and state law...

Martiniano v. Bell

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
A motion brought by the state to vacate a stay of execution in a murder case is denied where the district court did not abuse its discretion in...

Kentucky Press Ass'n, Inc. v. Commonwealth of Kentucky

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Media Law
An appeal from a dismissal for failure to state a claim of a suit, brought by a non-profit corporation whose members include newspapers throughout...

Dickerson v. Bagley

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Sentencing
Denial of habeas relief for petitioner, an inmate under sentence of death for murder, is reversed where counsel for petitioner at the mitigation phase...