United States Sixth Circuit - Opinion Summaries

PFENNIG v. HOUSEHOLD CREDIT SERVICES, INC.

Banking Law, Class Actions, Consumer Protection Law
District court erred in failing to construe federal Truth in Lending Act (TILA) liberally in plaintiff's favor in its dismissal of class action...

THE LIMITED, INC. v. COMMISIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE

Banking Law, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Tax Law
Tax Court erred in its conclusion that taxpayer-controlled foreign corporations' purchase of certificates of deposit from taxpayer's subsidiary credit...

PHELPS v. COY

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
The reasonableness standard of the Fourth Amendment (and not the "murky" Eighth Amendment standard) applied to defendant police sergeant's use of...

US v. TAYLOR

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing, Immigration Law
Following defendant's plea of guilty to entering the United States without permission after deportation for a felony, the district court did not err...

AGNEW v. BASF CORPORATION

Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
In an employment discrimination suit under the Michigan Elliot-Larsen Civil Rights Act, where the plaintiff quit his job in apprehension that he would...

BAZZETTA v. MCGINNIS

Civil Rights, Class Actions, Constitutional Law
Department of Corrections' haphazard non-contact visitation policies, including the banning of visits from certain relatives and former prisoners,...

HAGER v. PIKE COUNTY BD. OF EDUC.

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Education Law, Labor & Employment Law
A question of fact remains whether teacher's demotion and reassignment was in retaliation for her political conduct, and defendant school board is not...

KEROBO v. SOUTHWESTERN CLEAN FUELS CORP.

Civil Procedure, Contracts
In determining propriety of venue, a contract's forum-selection clause is one of a number of case-specific factors which the court must weigh; a venue...

TERRANCE v. NORTHVILLE REG'L PSYCHIATRIC HOSP.

Constitutional Law, Health Law
Because the decedent was involuntarily committed, the lower court should have considered defendants' duty to provide reasonable safety under a...

VIRTS v. CONSOL. FREIGHTWAYS CORP. OF DELAWARE

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law
Where plaintiff truck driver's proposals to accommodate his religious belief against going on sleeper runs with females had the potential of adversely...