United States Sixth Circuit - Opinion Summaries

AM. COUNCIL OF CERTIFIED PODIATRIC PHYSICIANS & SURGEONS

Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Consumer Protection Law, False Advertising, Health Law
Claims under section 2 of the Sherman Act were not actionable where a professional association of podiatrists's statements, in extolling its virtues...

MICHIGAN BELL TEL. CO. v. MCIMETRO ACCESS TRANSMISSION SERVS., INC.

Communications Law, Contracts, Public Utilities
The Michigan Public Service Commission did not reach an arbitrary and capricious result under Michigan contract law, in finding that a local...

HADIX v. JOHNSON

Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Class Actions, Constitutional Law
Denial of an inmate's motion for costs and an incentive award for his role as a class representative is affirmed, in a civil rights action brought by...

SUHAR v. BURNS

Bankruptcy Law, Property Law & Real Estate
Recovery, a statutory mechanism through which property may be returned to an estate, was unnecessary where an assignee mortgage company's interest...

TARECO PROPS., INC. v. MORRISS

Civil Procedure, Judgement Enforcement, Sanctions
FRCP will not provide relief to a party claiming a strategic error in agreeing to an order to partially satisfy a judgment debt, before litigating a...

ROSAELS-GARCIA v. HOLLAND

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Immigration Law
Where there is no significant likelihood that petitioners will be removed in the foreseeable future, and because the INS detained them longer than six...

US v. REBMANN

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Where stipulated facts establish only that defendant distributed a particular drug amount, and the government failed to prove that a death resulted...

BURTON v. JONES

Administrative Law, Civil Rights
A prisoner's 42 U.S.C. section 1983 claim was incorrectly dismissed in its entirety, as his grievances administratively exhausted his First Amendment...

US v. ROCHE

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Defendant was not entitled to a three-level reduction for acceptance of responsibility under U.S.S.G. section 3E1. 1 in an obstruction of justice...

US v. O'DELL

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
The district court properly construed a prior 6th Circuit Court of Appeals decision to remand, holding that application of a safety valve was improper...