United States Sixth Circuit - Opinion Summaries

NAT'L LABOR RELATIONS BD. v. DOLE FRESH VEGETABLES, INC.

Labor & Employment Law
A company failed to meet its burden of establishing that "lead" maintenance employees were supervisors under section 2(11) of the National Labor...

MALLETT v. US

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
An ineffective assistance of counsel claim fails for lack of prejudice where defendant has not demonstrated a reasonable probability that a challenge...

US v. MAYLE

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Evidence was sufficient under a preponderance of the evidence standard to establish that defendant killed three individuals, to justify an upward...

LEPLEY v. HARTFORD ACCIDENT & INDEM. CO.

Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law
Plaintiff failed to satisfy insurance policy requirements of providing prompt notice of her claim and protecting the insurer's rights to subrogation,...

U.S. v. LANG

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Defendant's failure to produce any evidence supporting her argument that she did not abuse a position of trust under U.S.S.G. section 3B1.3 is an...

US v. CAMEJO

Criminal Law & Procedure, Immigration Law, Sentencing
Previous incarceration as an immigration detainee is not categorically proscribed by the Guidelines, thus the district court did possess the...

CLIFFORD v. CHANDLER

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
A police officer's racial voice identification of one the voices that the officer heard in apartment as belonging to a black male will not necessarily...

HARRISON v. MONUMENTAL LIFE INS. CO.

Insurance Law
Evidence presented by plaintiff at trial was sufficient to find that an exclusionary clause precluding coverage was not applicable. Thus, plaintiff is...

3750 ORANGE PLACE LTD. P'SHIP v. NLRB

Administrative Law, Labor & Employment Law
A Board petition ordering plaintiffs, as successor employers, to recognize, bargain with, and provide information to the collective bargaining...

IN RE: SERV. MERCH. CO., INC.

Bankruptcy Law, Constitutional Law, Tax Law
In light of In re Hood, 319 F.3d 755 (6th Cir. 2003), the Commissioner of Revenue for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is not entitled to sovereign...