United States Sixth Circuit - Opinion Summaries

Power & Telephone Supply Co., Inc. v. SunTrust Banks, Inc.

Banking Law, Civil Procedure, Commercial Law, Communications Law, Consumer Protection Law, Contracts, Injury & Tort Law
Dismissal and summary judgment for defendants-banks on claims seeking to recover costs incurred under two derivative interest rate "swap" agreements...

Tran v. Gonzales

Criminal Law & Procedure, Immigration Law
Petition for review of a Board of Immigration Appeals' decision is granted in part where, although the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant...

Reeves v. Swift Transp. Co., Inc.

Civil Rights, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law, Transportation
In an action for pregnancy discrimination brought under the Pregnancy Discrimination Act on a theory of disparate treatment, summary judgment for...

Citizens Coal Council v. US Envtl. Prot. Agency

Administrative Law, Environmental Law, Government Law
A petition for review of a final rule promulgated by the EPA under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act or Clean Water Act (CWA) amending existing...

Sanderson v. HCA-The Healthcare Co.

Civil Procedure, Government Benefits, Government Law, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
Dismissal of a complaint alleging that defendant, a hospital chain, had violated the False Claims Act by filing "hospital cost reports" based on the...

US v. Ward

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
A sentence for armed bank robbery pursuant to a plea agreement is affirmed over claims of error that the district court treated the sentencing...

Danner v. Motley

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Habeas Corpus
Denial of a petition for writ of habeas corpus from a conviction and sentence for first degree sodomy and rape is affirmed over petitioner's claims...

Meridia Prods. Liability Litig. v. Abbot Labs.

Civil Procedure, Drugs & Biotech, Evidence, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
In a multi-district product liability case, summary judgment for defendants, a pharmaceutical company that marketed and distributed a diet-drug and...

Chen v. Gonzales

Administrative Law, Immigration Law
Petition for review of the denial of petitioners' claims of asylum and withholding of removal is granted where the record not only failed to support...

Jones v. City of Cortland Police Dep't

Civil Rights, Contracts, Elder Law, Government Law
In an action brought by a fifty-four year old applicant for employment as a police officer after he had received a conditional offer which was later...