United States Sixth Circuit - Opinion Summaries

Jefferson v. Lewis

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Injury & Tort Law
In plaintiff's action against a police officer under 42 U.S.C. section 1983 and state tort law for being shot by the officer on New Year's Eve while...

Dowling v. Cleveland Clinic Found.

Civil Procedure, Evidence, Injury & Tort Law
In plaintiffs' action against defendants for injuries sustained when she slipped and fell in a puddle of water while walking down a hallway adjacent...

Schoonmaker v. Spartan Graphics Leasing, LLC

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
District court's grant of summary judgment in favor of the defendant in plaintiff's action under the Age Discrimination Employment Act is affirmed...

Koubriti v. Convertino

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence
In plaintiff's civil action against defendant, pursuant to Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics, for constitutional...

Demings v. Nationwide Life Ins. Co.

Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law, Securities Law
In plaintiff's class-action lawsuit, individually and in his official capacity as a sheriff, on behalf of all public employers who sponsor deferred...

Robinson v. Mills

Criminal Law & Procedure, Evidence, Habeas Corpus
District court's grant of conditional habeas relief to a defendant convicted of first degree murder is affirmed as withholding impeachment evidence...

US v. McFalls

Criminal Law & Procedure, Sentencing
District court's classification of defendant as a career offender under U.S.S.G. section 4B1.1 based on his prior convictions in South Carolina for...

Fritz v. Charter Township of Comstock

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In plaintiff's retaliation claim under 42 U.S.C. section 1983 against a town and one of its supervisors, partial grant of defendant's motion for...

B-Line, LLC v. Wingerter

Bankruptcy Law, Civil Procedure, Sanctions
In Chapter 13 proceedings, the decision of the bankruptcy court in holding that plaintiff's purchase of a creditor's claim against the debtors was not...

Kellermann v. Holder

Administrative Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Immigration Law
A petition for review of BIA's final order of removal of a German citizen is denied as, petitioner's convictions under 18 U.S.C. sections 371 and 1001...