United States Sixth Circuit - Opinion Summaries

KOLLING v. BLUE CROSS & BLUE SHIELD OF MICHIGAN

Civil Rights, Health Law, Insurance Law, Labor & Employment Law
Because health care benefit plans covering participants in employee-sponsored plans were not goods offered by a place of public accommodation, ADA...

THE TAUBMAN CO. v. WEBFEATS

Civil Procedure, Cyberspace Law, Intellectual Property, Trademark
Injunctions preventing use of certain internet domain names are reversed where defendant's use was not "in connection with the sale or advertising of...

MASON v. MITCHELL

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Sentencing
It cannot be determined from the record whether the Ohio Supreme Court applied Strickland unreasonably by not examining the extent of trial counsel's...

US v. MURILLO-INIGUEZ

Criminal Law & Procedure, Immigration Law, Sentencing
In sentencing for illegal reentry into the U.S., the district court did not fail to explicitly find that the original deportation was based on an...

PACCAR, INC. v. TELESCAN TECHS., LLC

Cyberspace Law, Intellectual Property, Remedies, Trademark
A manufacturer demonstrated a strong likelihood of success on the merits of its trademark infringement claim based on defendant's use of trademarks in...

DAVIS v. MITCHELL

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Sentencing
Instructions which left a jury with the impression that juror unanimity was required to mitigate the punishment from death to life imprisonment...

IN RE: HOOD

Bankruptcy Law, Constitutional Law, Government Law
The Constitution's Bankruptcy Clause (Article I, section 8) gives Congress the power to abrogate states' sovereign immunity.

NICHOLS v. MUSKINGUM COLL.

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
Plaintiff satisfied administrative prerequisites for bringing a Title VII action in federal court, where her actions constituted initially instituting...

APJ ASSOCS., INC. v. N. AM. PHILIPS CORP.

Commercial Law, Contracts
Fraud in the inducement claims are not actionable where plaintiff failed to show defendant made oral assurances with intent to deceive, and defendant...

WICKLINE v. MITCHELL

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
Ohio death row inmate's claim, that trial counsel was ineffective for failing to investigate and present mitigating evidence at the penalty phase,...