United States Sixth Circuit - Opinion Summaries

US v. MANDYCZ

Civil Procedure
In an action by the government seeking denaturalization based on defendant's alleged service at two Nazi-run labor camps, defendant's interlocutory...

AMMEX, INC. v. COX

Constitutional Law, False Advertising
Because plaintiff's pre-enforcement challenge to the applicability of the Michigan Consumer Protection Act is not ripe, and the judgment of the...

GRAHAM v. AM. CYANAMID CO.

Drugs & Biotech, Product Liability
Defendant's summary judgment is affirmed because plaintiffs have failed to establish their affirmative case by showing a causal relationship between...

US v. ESPALIN

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Defendant's appeal of denial for downward departure is affirmed as no impropriety occurred.

HUDSON v. JONES

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
District court's grant of defendant's conditional writ of habeas corpus based on ineffective assistance of counsel is reversed as trial judge only...

STEMLER v. FLORENCE

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law
In an action arising out of an encounter with the police, denial of summary judgment is reversed on equal protection claim as this issue was barred by...

CHIPMAN v. FLORENCE

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law
In an action arising out of an encounter with the police, grant of summary judgment to defendants on plaintiff's substantive due process claim is...

AKERS v. MCGINNIS

Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law
A Michigan state department of corrections ruling that barred employees from any non-work-related contact with prisoners, parolees and probationers...

LY v. HANSEN

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Immigration Law
The district court's grant of habeas relief to a deportable criminal alien is affirmed where the government failed to show a strong special...

SSWAJJE v. ASHCROFT

Immigration Law
The Board of Immigration Appeals committed no error of fact or law and did not abuse its discretion when it dismissed petitioner's appeal as untimely...