United States Sixth Circuit - Opinion Summaries

Odle v. Decatur County

Constitutional Law, Government Law
Defendant-County's ordinance, which prohibits nudity and the performance of a wide range of arguably sexually suggestive acts in public places where...

Samad v. Bell

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Death row inmate raises six meritless points of error on direct appeal.

Baston v. Bagley

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Defendant's sentence of death is affirmed over his claim that the sentencing court considered improper aggravating factors and failed to consider the...

Village of Grafton v. Rural Lorain County

Government Law, Public Utilities, Water Law
Defendant-County Water Authority has the right to provide water services to a recently developed property that was annexed by plaintiff-Village.

Sutton v. St. Jude Med.

Class Actions, Constitutional Law, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law
Plaintiff has standing to seek medical testing and monitoring made necessary by the implantation of a medical device that has not yet malfunctioned or...

US v. Battle Creek Health Sys.

Health Law
Dismissal of plaintiff's suit under a False Claims Act is reversed where there is a genuine issue as to whether defendant's billing practices resulted...

Benzon v. Morgan Stanley

Securities Law
In a putative class action alleging a violation of federal securities law, the district court properly dismissed the complaint for failure to state a...

Vision Info. Serv. v. Comm'n of Internal Revenue

Contracts, Intellectual Property, Tax Law
The Tax Court did not err in finding that sums received by plaintiff were taxable as ordinary income since the income was derived from payments for a...

In re: Dow Corning Corp.

Civil Procedure, Class Actions
In a class action settlement for injuries resulting from allegedly faulty breast implants, a clause requiring payment of $100 per day to each...

E.W. Scripps Co. v. US

Civil Procedure, Tax Law
Summary judgment in favor of plaintiff's claim for interest payments, based on its overpayment of tax, is affirmed over the government's contention...