United States Sixth Circuit - Opinion Summaries

Keeton v. Flying J, Inc.

Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
Because a reasonable jury could have found plaintiff's transfer to be a tangible employment action, where defendant fired, then rehired and laterally...

Blankenship v. Blackwell

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Elections, Remedies
Plaintiffs' appeal from dismissal of their claim for a declaratory judgment in a case challenging Ohio's residency requirement for circulators of...

Spotts v. US

Banking Law, Corp. Governance, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Debt Collection, Family Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Tax Law
Summary judgment for defendant-I.R.S. in an action seeking to remove a nominee federal tax lien is reversed where the lower court did not apply state...

White v. Columbus Metro. Hous. Auth.

Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
Grant of summary judgment for defendant in a sex discrimination case is affirmed where plaintiff was unable to establish a prima facie case of sex...

Intera Corp. v. Henderson

Contracts, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Injury & Tort Law, Intellectual Property, Trade Secrets
A court should not dismiss a case for lack of personal jurisdiction on the merits or "with prejudice," especially when it appears that another court...

Fligiel v. Samson

Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
Grant of summary judgment for defendant-Veterans Administration is vacated and the case remanded for dismissal for lack of subject matter jurisdiction...

Spirit Airlines v. Northwest

Antitrust & Trade Regulation
Grant of summary judgment in favor of defendant-airline in an antitrust case involving allegations of predatory tactics in specific geographical...

Violette v. P.A. Days, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Consumer Protection Law
Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 6(a) applies only to situations where parties must compute deadlines based on the passage of a fixed number of days...

OfficeMax v. US

Communications Law, Tax Law
In a tax case disputing the meaning of -toll telephone service- as defined in 26 U.S.C. section 4252(b)(1), a toll charge must vary by both distance...

Care Heating & Cooling, Inc. v. American Standard, Inc.

Antitrust & Trade Regulation
Where plaintiff failed to show a per se violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act and failed to state a claim under the rule of reason analysis, the...