United States Sixth Circuit - Opinion Summaries

US v. ANTHONY

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Where defendant was convicted for giving false statements to a federal investigator and leading a cover-up effort in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1001, the...

GOTTFRIED v. MEDICAL PLANNING SERVS., INC.

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law
Dissolution of state court injunction, during the pendency of plaintiff's federal case challenging the injunction on First Amendment grounds, rendered...

IN RE: FRANCIS

Bankruptcy Law
Because bankruptcy court gave the particular scrutiny required in reviewing a bankruptcy plan that proposes to pay only a small portion of a debt that...

ARMCO, INC. v. UNITED STEELWORKERS OF AMERICA

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
In suit against union and city defendants, alleging claims under the Labor Management Relations Act and 42 U.S.C. Section 1983, the Norris-LaGuardia...

MARTIN v. MITCHELL

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus
Defendant's petition for writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. Section 2254(a), alleging claims of prosecutorial misconduct, ineffective...

IN RE: LANE

Bankruptcy Law
Modification of the rights of a mortgagee, who, although the holder of a lien on the Chapter 13 debtor's homestead, has solely an "unsecured claim"...

US v. KHALIL

Criminal Law & Procedure
Where the government introduced extensive evidence linking the defendant to drug trafficking activity, and the only evidence cited by the defendant to...

US v. STUBBS

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Where defendant was indicted for one offense and sentenced under another simply by operation of a cross-reference in the sentencing guidelines, and...

US v. CAMPBELL

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
U.S.S.G. 1B1.3(a)(1)(B) requires that the district court make particularized findings with respect to both the scope of the defendant's agreement and...

US v. GEORGIA

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
District court erred in applying enhancement, under USSG 2K1.4(a)(1)(A), based on the untenable assertion that defendant knew his act of setting fire...