United States Sixth Circuit - Opinion Summaries

Brumbalough v. Camelot Care Ctrs., Inc.

Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
Under the FMLA, an employee's fitness for duty certification need only be a simple statement of an employee-s ability to return to work; the grant of...

Valley v. Comm'r or Social Sec.

Administrative Law, Government Benefits, Labor & Employment Law
The district court's decision in favor of defendant-Commissioner, requiring plaintiff to repay social security benefits to the Social Security...

US v. Jamieson

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Defendant's sentence for money laundering is vacated and remanded for resentencing under US v. Booker, 125 S.Ct. 738 (2005).

Romanski v. Detroit Entertainment

Civil Rights, Gaming Law, Injury & Tort Law, Remedies
In a section 1983 suit alleging unlawful arrest, a jury verdict in favor of plaintiff is affirmed; however, a $600,000 punitive damages award is...

Peters v. Fair

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Injury & Tort Law, Property Law & Real Estate
The district court erred when it dismissed plaintiff's unripe real property takings claim with prejudice since he should have been allowed to reassert...

Horton v. Ford Motor Co.

ERISA, Labor & Employment Law
The Retirement Equity Act(REA), which requires a participant in a pension plan to seek spousal consent to exclude a surviving spouse from pension...

Ernst v. Rising

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law
Plaintiffs-state court judges' federal claim, alleging that they received unfavorable retirement benefits, is dismissed where a federal-law...

Maples v. Stegall

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
The district court violated plaintiff's constitutional right to a speedy trial when it failed to bring him to trial until over two years after his...

US v. Dairy Farmers of Am. Inc.

Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Contracts, M&A
Summary judgment against the government's claim that defendant violated the Clayton Act is reversed where the district court erred in failing to...

Elia v. Gonzales

Immigration Law
Plaintiff's challenge to his order of removal is denied over his claim that the immigration judge improperly found him ineligible for relief under...