United States Sixth Circuit - Opinion Summaries

US v. RODGERS

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
It is not error for the district court to reimpose a defendant-s original sentence after remand and deny a reduction in the sentence for acceptance of...

REGENSBURGER v. CITY OF BOWLING GREEN

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Elections
Where a challenged voting apportionment scheme demonstrated a population deviation as high as 66.85%, the scheme exceeded Fourteenth Amendment Equal...

US v. CANTRELL

Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure
Because Congress intended money laundering, 18 U.S.C. section 1957, to be a punishable criminal offense separate from the underlying offense of mail...

US v. MARLOW

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
Although 18 U.S.C. section 3583(e)(3) does not authorize the district court to impose a postrevocation sentence that endures longer than the original...

RICHLAND BOOKMART, INC. v. NICHOLS

Constitutional Law
A statute imposing operating-hour restrictions on certain adult-oriented establishments does not violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth...

SINGLETON v. US

Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
Allegations that government supervisor attempted to have employee removed from his job, filed false and degrading reports against him, and punished...

MAYS v. BUCKEYE RURAL ELEC. COOP., INC.

Commercial Law
Under 12 CFR 202.3(c)(1) of Regulation B of the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, a public utility's ten percent penalty on past-due bills is not a...

INT'. UNION v. DANA CORP.

Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Labor & Employment Law
Arbitrators in labor disputes are not bound by the decisions of prior arbitrators unless the collective bargaining agreement so stipulates.

STEVENSON v. J.C. BRADFORD & CO.

Bankruptcy Law
Under 11 USC 548(a)(1) and Tennessee law, funds held in escrow for an attorney's clients constitute an express trust excluded from the debtor's...

REISENFELD & CO. v. NETWORK GROUP, INC.

Contracts, Property Law & Real Estate
Under Ohio law, a sub-broker may recover quasi-contract remedies from a property owner for the broker's misdeeds where the property owner has not paid...