United States Sixth Circuit - Opinion Summaries

MISKEL v. KARNES

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Habeas Corpus
Denial of plaintiff habeas petition is affirmed over her challenge to the presentation of expert testimony on whether the type of breath testing...

HOOPER v. WOLFE

Civil Procedure, Property Law & Real Estate
In a dispute arising out a commercial real estate transaction, dismissal of plaintiff's complaint for failure to join an indispensable party is...

VALENTINE v. KONTEH

Criminal Law & Procedure
Defendant's convictions for 20 "carbon-copy" counts of child rape are reversed where he can only be charged with one crime since had no way to...

DANIELS v. WOODSIDE

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
Plaintiff's section 1983 claim, alleging a violation of pretrial detention laws, is dismissed where he was confined in accordance with Michigan law,...

MOSTAFA v. ASHCROFT

Immigration Law
Plaintiff's petition for review is granted where the Board of Immigration Appeals failed to analyze his Convention Against Torture claim in light of...

THURMAN v. DAIMLERCHRYSLER, INC.

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
In an employment discrimination suit, summary judgment in favor of defendant-employer is affirmed were plaintiff-employee effectively waived the...

KALAMAZOO ACQUISITIONS v. WESTFIELD INS. CO.

Contracts, Insurance Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In an action for breach of a contract for commercial property insurance, plaintiff is barred from bringing the action on the ground that it entered...

MCCOMBS v. MEIJER, INC.

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
In a sexual harassment lawsuit, a jury verdict for plaintiff is affirmed over defendant's claims that the district court erred by 1) submitting...

CSX TRANSP. INC. v. UNITED TRANSP. UNION

Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Labor & Employment Law
A labor dispute concerning the substantive scope of a national moratorium on contractual negotiations is a "minor" dispute under the terms of the...

WHITING v. BURT

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
The conditional grant of plaintiff's petition for a writ of habeas corpus is vacated where the district court applied the incorrect standard to...