United States Sixth Circuit - Opinion Summaries

SOMMER v. DAVIS

Evidence, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Professional Malpractice
Expert witnesses in a medical malpractice action were not competent to testify under Tennessee law, where plaintiffs failed to disclose one witness in...

MORRISON v. CIRCUIT CITY STORES, INC.

Civil Rights, Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Labor & Employment Law
In discrimination suits against former employers, cost-splitting provision in arbitration agreements were not enforceable, and provisions limiting...

U.S. v. CAMPBELL

Civil Rights, Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
The district court's application of 21 U.S.C. section 841(b)(1)(D) as the statutory maximum penalty for an indeterminate amount of marijuana is...

WALLIN v. NORMAN

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Health Law
A prisoner properly pled facts sufficient to establish that prison officials acted with deliberate indifference to his serious medical needs. District...

MARKVA v. HAVEMAN

Class Actions, Government Benefits, Health Law
In a class-action challenge to the Michigan Medicaid plan's methodology for calculating eligibility and benefits for relatives caring for dependent...

WEXLER v. WHITE'S FINE FURNITURE, INC.

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
In an Age Discrimination in Employment Act claim, decision makers' statements evinced discriminatory intent, and where the factfinder decides to draw...

U.S. v. RICKETTS

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
Use of a firearm and committing a firearm murder in connection with a drug conspiracy, under 18 U.S.C. sections 924(c) and 924(i), are within...

SEC'Y OF LABOR v. 3RE.COM, INC.

Labor & Employment Law
Employees preparing a company's accounts receivable reports were involved in producing the repaired and remarketed computers that comprised the...

MICHIGAN DEP'T OF ENVTL. QUALITY v. US ENVTL. PROT. AGENCY

Administrative Law, Environmental Law, Public Utilities
The Environmental Appeals Board did not abuse its discretion in finding that a Michigan state agency did not sufficiently identify its objections to...

DARLAND v. FORTIS BENFITS INS. CO.

ERISA, Insurance Law, Labor & Employment Law
The "treating physician" rule should apply in ERISA cases, and the district court should have deferred to the opinions of a long-term disability...