United States Sixth Circuit - Opinion Summaries

US v. BASS

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
The district court did not err in denying defendant's motion to suppress a shotgun found by police under a bed's boxspring mattress during a...

SCHLENK v. FORD MOTOR CREDIT CO.

Commercial Law, Consumer Protection Law
Neither the Consumer Leasing Act nor Federal Reserve Board Regulation M, 12 C.F.R. section 213, requires defendant credit company to disclose an auto...

CLARK v. CHRYSLER CORP.

Evidence, Injury & Tort Law, Product Liability
In this automobile product liability action, the trial court did not abuse its discretion in admitting the testimony of two expert witnesses,...

CASSIDY v. AKZO NOBEL SALT, INC.

ERISA, Labor & Employment Law
Defendant's severance plan qualified as an ERISA plan, and the district court properly applied federal common law precedents to interpret the...

MARCHWINSKI v. HOWARD

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Benefits, Health Law
The district court erred in issuing a preliminary injunction where it held that only a public safety concern can qualify as a "special need" that may...

HERITAGE BROAD. CO. OF MICHIGAN v. NAT'L LABOR RELATIONS BD.

Labor & Employment Law, Media Law
Substantial record evidence regarding the parties' past practices supports an NLRB determination that an employer and a union operated under a belief...

GRIFFIN v. ROGERS

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
A habeas petition is remanded where petitioner's failure to meet her equitable tolling burden may be a direct consequence of retroactive application...

BELL v. JOHNSON

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
Prison guards are not entitled to qualified immunity to a former inmate's 42 U.S.C. section 1983 claim that they shook down his cell and confiscated...

HERMAN v. FABRI-CENTERS OF AM., INC.

Labor & Employment Law
An employer was not entitled, under 29 U.S.C. section 207(h)(2), to apply contract premiums as credit against the total overtime owed after its...

US v. KESZTHELYI

Criminal Law & Procedure
Although a second search of a residence was not a reasonable continuation of a prior search, where contraband inevitably would have been discovered...