United States Sixth Circuit - Opinion Summaries

US v. RIDGE

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Officers had a reasonable suspicion sufficient to justify a vehicle stop which led naturally to the discovery of a weapon in plain view. District...

DOTSON v. WILKINSON

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Sentencing
Certain prisoner 42 U.S.C. section 1983 claims against the Ohio Adult Parole Authority, asserting improprieties in parole proceedings, are procedural...

LEE-LIPSTREU v. CHUBB GROUP OF INS. COS.

Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law, Labor & Employment Law
Under Ohio law, a commercial general liability policy did not provide automobile liability insurance coverage to plaintiff's employer, and did not...

US v. TREADWAY

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
District court did not plainly err in relying on an undisputed drug quantity contained in a Presentence Investigative Report, and though failure to...

US v. CITY OF DETROIT

Civil Procedure
The All Writs Act provides district courts with the authority to bind nonparties in order to prevent the frustration of consent decrees that determine...

MT. CLEMENS GEN. HOSP. v. NAT'L LABOR RELATIONS BD.

Labor & Employment Law
A hospital's prohibition of buttons supporting opposition to "forced overtime" constituted an unfair labor practice in violation of the National Labor...

STEPHENSON v. ALLSTATE INS. CO.

Contracts, Insurance Law
An insurance company did not breach an implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing under Michigan law, in denying an agent's request to purchase...

MUNCIE POWER PRODS., INC. v. UNITED TECHS. AUTO., INC.

Civil Procedure, Injury & Tort Law
Applying Ohio choice-of-law rules to an action for contribution against a joint tortfeasor, Indiana had the most significant relationship to the...

DRIVER v. US POSTAL SERV., INC.

Labor & Employment Law
A union's refusal to appeal the denial of a U.S. Postal Service worker's grievance over transfer and loss of seniority was based on its reasonable and...

SPIERER v. FEDERATED DEP'T STORES

Bankruptcy Law, Civil Procedure, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration
The bankruptcy court's issuing of a stay of creditors' state court suit against debtors, until creditors had gone through the arbitration process, was...