United States Sixth Circuit - Opinion Summaries

TENNESSEE LABORERS HEALTH & WELFARE FUND v. COLUMBIA/HCA HEALTHCARE CORP.

Civil Procedure, Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Evidence
A healthcare company "completely and finally" waived any attorney-client or work product doctrine privilege associated with documents by previously...

QUINN v. SHIREY

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law
In order for plaintiff to show that he has been deprived of a liberty interest in his reputation without due process in the form of a name-clearing...

VINCENT v. JONES

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
A state trial judge's comments, coupled with the state court's docket entry, indicate that a directed verdict was granted on a first degree murder...

US v. SYKES

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
No Apprendi error occurred where defendant waived the right to have a jury consider a firearms charge under a reasonable doubt standard, as part of a...

FITZGERALD v. WITHROW

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
Defendant's waiver of his Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial was valid for a bench trial by any judge on the court (not just by the judge who took...

IN RE: DESILETS

Bankruptcy Law, Civil Procedure, Ethics & Professional Responsibility
Where appellant was properly admitted to the federal bar under the applicable rule, and because federal standards govern practice before the federal...

FRIDLEY v. HORRIGHS

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
When at the time of plaintiff's arrest, police officers and department officials had no knowledge of any facts establishing an affirmative defense to...

ROSE v. STEPHENS

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law
Summary judgment for the Secretary of Kentucky's Justice Cabinet was proper in a police commissioner's 42 U.S.C. section 1983 claim, for termination...

COAL OPERATORS & ASSOC., INC. v. BABBITT

Environmental Law, Oil and Gas Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Government Law
Plaintiffs failed to establish federal jurisdiction in a claim attempting to force the federal government to turn over $1.3 billion dollars allegedly...

IN RE: CITY OF MEMPHIS

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Evidence, Government Law
Interlocutory review, of an order holding that postenactment evidence cannot be presented by a city to demonstrate a compelling need for awarding...