2013 Sixth Circuit US Court of Appeals Case Law
Opinions 501 - 1000 of 1588
Date: August 15, 2013
Docket Number: 12-3069
Justia Opinion Summary: REX was unsuccessful in privately obtaining easements from defendants to install an interstate natural-gas pipeline authorized by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) under a coal mine in Ohio and had to…
Date: August 15, 2013
Docket Number: 12-3197
Justia Opinion Summary: Ward, a 50-year-old man from the United Kingdom, obtained lawful-permanent-resident status in 1995. Ward left the U.S. in 2003 to take care of his mother, who suffered from dementia. When he returned in 2006, Ward…
Date: August 15, 2013
Docket Number: 12-5386
Justia Opinion Summary: In 1975, Brumley assigned to his sons, Robert and William, his interests in a copyright to the hit gospel song, “I’ll Fly Away.” In 2006, Brumley’s four other children sought to terminate the assignment. Robert refused…
Date: August 14, 2013
Docket Number: 12-2213
Justia Opinion Summary: The Michigan anti-begging statute, Mich. Comp. Laws 900, has existed since at least 1929 and provides that “[a] person is a disorderly person if the person is any of the following: ... (h) A person found begging in a…
Date: August 14, 2013
Docket Number: 12-2620
Justia Opinion Summary: Danou is a naturalized U.S. citizen from Iraq. He, his family, and his trust own several real estate ventures, including Southfield, Triple Creek, and Danou Technical. In 2006 Southfield borrowed $13 million from…
Date: August 14, 2013
Docket Number: 12-5635
Justia Opinion Summary: A three-year-old child found a cigarette lighter in his father’s truck and used it to loosen a button on his shirt. His shirt caught fire and he spent three weeks in the hospital, where he was treated for second and…
Date: August 14, 2013
Docket Number: 12-6598
Justia Opinion Summary: The Contributor produces a street newspaper to educate people about homelessness and poverty and helps develop job skills for homeless and formerly homeless persons, employing them as street vendors. Two such vendors…
Date: August 13, 2013
Docket Number: 12-5240
Justia Opinion Summary: Woodruff pled guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm and was sentenced to 120 months’ imprisonment as an armed career criminal. The Sixth Circuit affirmed, rejecting arguments that the district court…
Date: August 13, 2013
Docket Number: 12-6114
Justia Opinion Summary: Adamov immigrated to the U.S. in 1992 and began working at the bank in 1998. He became a district manager in Louisville, with an excellent employment record. In 2005, the bank hired Hartnack as Vice-Chairman, three…
Date: August 13, 2013
Docket Number: 12-6362
Justia Opinion Summary: Lindsey filed a voluntary Chapter 11 petition for bankruptcy relief. His reorganization plan identified 12 classes of creditors. Lindsey sought to retain most of his assets, including several pieces of real estate, so…
Date: August 12, 2013
Docket Number: 12-3329
Justia Opinion Summary: Retirees, dependents of retirees, and the union filed a class action suit against the retirees’ former employer, M&G, after M&G announced that they would be required to make health care contributions. The district court…
Date: August 9, 2013
Docket Number: 11-5419
Justia Opinion Summary: Aker’s Louisville team consisted of the project manager, Hudson; electrical and instrumentation (E&I) designers Ash, Kirkpatrick, Sharp, and Whitaker; three piping designers; an estimator/scheduler; and a drafter who was…
Date: August 9, 2013
Docket Number: 12-1518
Justia Opinion Summary: While employed as an electrical line worker, Waldo was subjected routinely to sexual harassment. Her coworkers displayed sexually explicit materials in the workplace, locked her in a porta-potty, ridiculed her for…
Date: August 9, 2013
Docket Number: 12-1857
Justia Opinion Summary: Tompkins was injured when she slipped in a pool of water on the floor and fell at McNamara Terminal in the Detroit Metropolitan Airport (DTW). She sued Northwest Airlines, which she alleged had possession and control of…
Date: August 9, 2013
Docket Number: 12-2087
Justia Opinion Summary: Like many Michigan municipalities, Pontiac has experienced significant economic difficulties, especially since 2008. Michigan’s Governor appointed Schimmel as Pontiac’s emergency manager. Acting under Michigan’s…
Date: August 9, 2013
Docket Number: 12-3273
Justia Opinion Summary: In 1997, Riley pled guilty to possession, with intent to distribute, of 53.17 grams of crack cocaine, 21 U.S.C.841(a)(1) and (b)(1)(A), and, after unsuccessfully challenging his designation as a “career offender,” was…
Date: August 9, 2013
Docket Number: 12-3450
Date: August 9, 2013
Docket Number: 12-3531
Justia Opinion Summary: Findlay sought relief from a withdrawal liability payment it allegedly owed the pension fund under the Multiemployer Pension Plan Amendments Act of 1980, 29 U.S.C. 1381-1461. Findlay had ceased making contributions to a…
Date: August 9, 2013
Docket Number: 12-4379
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2007 Hamilton Township imposed impact fees of about $2,100 per lot on developers of residential property. Salt Run, a residential developer, sought to avoid the fees by annexation to the Village of Maineville. Unable…
Date: August 7, 2013
Docket Number: 12-5477
Justia Opinion Summary: Officers responded to an anonymous 911 call reporting that a black man wearing a blue shirt, with a “poofy” afro, riding a bicycle, had a pistol. Officer Meredith arrived and began talking with Nelson, who precisely…
Date: August 7, 2013
Docket Number: 12-5835
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2006 White began working at a job that required him to lift parts weighing between 20 and 75 pounds. White was considered a good worker, but had consistent attendance problems. Between January 26, 2009, and September…
Date: August 6, 2013
Docket Number: 12-2062
Date: August 6, 2013
Docket Number: 12-5319
Justia Opinion Summary: Boaz began working for FedEx in 1997, under an agreement that stated: “To the extent the law allows an employee to bring legal action against Federal Express Corporation, I agree to bring that complaint within the time…
Date: August 6, 2013
Docket Number: 12-6204
Justia Opinion Summary: Yancy pleaded guilty to felon-in-possession, carjacking, and use-of-firearm charges, 18 U.S.C. 922(g), 2119, and 924(c), and received a 156-month sentence. The Sixth Circuit affirmed, upholding the district court’s…
Date: August 5, 2013
Docket Number: 11-4234
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2006, Shearson, the executive director of the Cleveland chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, was stopped by U.S. Customs and Borders Protection as she and her daughter were returning from Canada,…
Date: August 5, 2013
Docket Number: 12-1283
Justia Opinion Summary: Jena is a 19-year-old with a genetic disorder that causes physical defects and severe mental disability. She apparently communicates at the level of a child between the ages of five and seven and has the social skills of…
Date: August 5, 2013
Docket Number: 12-3314
Justia Opinion Summary: Connor Group owns and manages about 15,000 rental units throughout the U.S., including about 1,900 in the Dayton area. Its rental agent posted an ad on Craigslist: 599/1br – Great Bachelor Pad! (Centerville) … Our one…
Date: August 5, 2013
Docket Number: 12-6216
Justia Opinion Summary: Frazier, a sorter for Publishers Printing, was covered by Publishers’ employee benefit plan, which provided disability insurance. In 2009, at age 42, she left her job due to back pain that radiated down her legs, which…
Date: August 2, 2013
Docket Number: 11-4156
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2010, P&G began marketing Pampers disposable diapers with “Dry Max technology.” Two months later, the Consumer Product Safety Commission began investigating whether the diapers caused severe diaper rash. The district…
Date: August 1, 2013
Docket Number: 11-6436
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2004, Ray was convicted on five counts of conduct involving child pornography, 18 U.S.C. 2251(a), 2252(a)(1), and 2252(a)(4)(B), and sentenced to concurrent prison terms of 180 months, 300 months, and 600 months. The…
Date: July 31, 2013
Docket Number: 11-4002
Justia Opinion Summary: A Juvenile Court standing order provided that social workers had authority to remove and provide temporary emergency care for children at imminent risk of serious physical or emotional harm and to request assistance by…
Date: July 31, 2013
Docket Number: 12-3359
Justia Opinion Summary: Dayton Title brokered real estate closings and had a trust account at PNC Bank for clients’ funds. In 1998-1999, Dayton facilitated bridge loans from defendants to Chari, from $1.9 million to $3.2 million, for commercial…
Date: July 30, 2013
Docket Number: 12-2130
Justia Opinion Summary: The Thomas M. Cooley Law School, accredited by the ABA, enrolls more students than any other U.S. law school and plans to expand. Cooley charges full-time students tuition of $36,750 per year, exclusive of other costs,…
Date: July 30, 2013
Docket Number: 12-4274
Justia Opinion Summary: Ramos, a citizen of El Salvador, entered the U.S. without inspection or authorization in 2009, at the age of 14. In removal proceedings, he sought asylum and withholding of removal, claiming that, in El Salvador,…
Date: July 29, 2013
Docket Number: 12-4048
Justia Opinion Summary: Kinds was assaulted and threatened by her live-in boyfriend. She requested time off to find a new place to live, but did not have vacation time available and was not eligible for Family and Medical Leave Act leave…
Date: July 26, 2013
Docket Number: 11-6105
Justia Opinion Summary: Hogg, charged with possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of crack cocaine and possession with intent to distribute an unspecified quantity of cocaine, pled guilty to possession with intent to distribute…
Date: July 26, 2013
Docket Number: 12-6169
Justia Opinion Summary: Capozzi, a federal prisoner, rolled out of a transport van and fled. Personnel pursued him, firing shots. Two days later agents discovered Capozzi hiding in a wooded area. He was indicted for escaping from custody, 18…
Date: July 25, 2013
Docket Number: 06-6495
Justia Opinion Summary: Nichols, a Tennessee state prisoner awaiting execution, had an “oppressive and forlorn childhood, due to his father’s abuse, his mother’s illness, their poverty, and the church-dominated society into which he was born”…
Date: July 25, 2013
Docket Number: 12-1645
Justia Opinion Summary: Shweika applied for naturalization in 2004. Three years passed without review. Shweika obtained a writ, compelling USCIS to complete review by May 30, 2008. On May 29, 2008, USCIS denied the application because Shweika…
Date: July 25, 2013
Docket Number: 12-2240
Justia Opinion Summary: Carpenter sued Flint, a councilwoman and the mayor, based on Carpenter’s termination from his position as Director of Transportation, asserting age and political discrimination, breach of contract, wrongful discharge,…
Date: July 24, 2013
Docket Number: 12-1583
Justia Opinion Summary: Tennessee resident Lombard acquired a 1997 Lincoln Town Car in 2004. The car was partially manufactured, and its final assembly completed, in 1996 at Ford’s Wixom, Michigan plant. In March 2007, the Lincoln, which was…
Date: July 23, 2013
Docket Number: 12-1870
Justia Opinion Summary: Romo was sleeping in the driver’s seat of a parked car, intoxicated, when he was approached by Officer Largen, who arrested Romo for operating a vehicle while intoxicated, based on Largen’s observation of Romo’s having…
Date: July 23, 2013
Docket Number: 12-2173
Justia Opinion Summary: The plant’s union and TRW negotiated collective bargaining agreements, which included provisions for healthcare benefits for retirees. The last CBA became effective in 1993 and was scheduled to expire in 1996. The plant…
Date: July 23, 2013
Docket Number: 12-6400
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2009, the district court sentenced Defendant to incarceration, followed by two years of supervised release, for the sale of counterfeit obligations. Supervised release began in November, 2010. In 2012, the district…
Date: July 22, 2013
Docket Number: 11-3752
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2004, Akron held promotional exams for fire department positions of Captain and Lieutenant. The exams were prepared, administered and scored by an outside testing consultant. Each exam contained a 100-question…
Date: July 19, 2013
Docket Number: 09-4515
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2001 Fitzpatrick killed his girlfriend, her 12-year-old daughter, and a neighbor. There were questions about his mental health. A pretrial hearing was held because of Fitzpatrick’s confession to his cousin that the…
Date: July 19, 2013
Docket Number: 12-5476
Justia Opinion Summary: The Authority was formed under Ga. Code 46-4-82(a) to provide member municipalities with natural gas. It operates as a non-profit, distributing profits and losses to member municipalities: 64 in Georgia, two in…
Date: July 19, 2013
Docket Number: 12-5787
Date: July 18, 2013
Docket Number: 12-2265
Justia Opinion Summary: The Fund is a multi-employer trust fund under the Taft-Hartley Act, 29 U.S.C. 186, and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, 29 U.S.C. 1001. Blue Cross is a Michigan non-profit corporation; its enabling statute…
Date: July 18, 2013
Docket Number: 12-5475
Justia Opinion Summary: In 1990 Plummer, a recognized expert in horse-breeding and the tax consequences of related investments, created the Mare Lease Program to enable investors to participate in his horse-breeding business and take advantage…
Date: July 17, 2013
Docket Number: 11-5312
Justia Opinion Summary: Eight defendants who held positions with Clay County, Kentucky, were charged with conspiracy to violate the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, 18 U.S.C. 1962(d), based on participation in a vote-buying…
Date: July 15, 2013
Docket Number: 12-3321
Justia Opinion Summary: Advance installs and services signs. It alleges that it entered into a contract to sell Optec’s electronic messaging signs to foodservice customers. Advance claims that Optec agreed not to sell directly to the…
Date: July 11, 2013
Docket Number: 12-5711
Justia Opinion Summary: Harkness, a reserve Commander in the Navy Chaplain Corps, was denied a promotion to the rank of Captain by an annual selection board. The Secretary of the Navy denied his request to convene a special selection board…
Date: July 10, 2013
Docket Number: 10-2185
Justia Opinion Summary: In 1986, Harrison was charged with second-degree murder and carrying a firearm during commission of a felony, but was convicted of reckless use of a firearm resulting in death (a lesser-included Misdemeanor) and…
Date: July 10, 2013
Docket Number: 12-3909
Justia Opinion Summary: Toledo police officers, near a shopping center with few stores and in an area with many complaints of robberies, thefts, drug activity, and loitering, noticed a group of people, not going in or out of stores, but…
Date: July 9, 2013
Docket Number: 11-6396
Justia Opinion Summary: The Tennessee Adult-Oriented Establishment Registration Act of 1998 is a county-option state law to address deleterious secondary effects associated with adult-oriented businesses, including crime, spread of venereal…
Date: July 9, 2013
Docket Number: 12-4108
Date: July 3, 2013
Docket Number: 12-4049
Justia Opinion Summary: Engleson, vice president of an Akron insurance agency, suffered from medical conditions, including Crohn’s disease and depression. He resigned in 2001 and sought long-term disability benefits from the company’s group…
Date: July 2, 2013
Docket Number: 12-1595
Justia Opinion Summary: Triple A, a Michigan corporation, has offices in Dearborn, Michigan, the Congo (previously known as Zaire), and Sierra Leone. In 1993, Zaire ordered military equipment worth $14,070,000 from Triple A. A South Korean…
Date: July 2, 2013
Docket Number: 12-1628
Justia Opinion Summary: The Center, a licensed nursing home in Springfield, Tennessee, has about 100 employees, providing care to about 120 residents. An executive director oversees the facility, assisted by department heads, including a…
Date: June 28, 2013
Docket Number: 12-8047
Justia Opinion Summary: The Weixels filed a Chapter 7 petition; they were not eligible for relief under Chapter 13 due to the amount of their debt. The bankruptcy court dismissed, 11 U.S.C. 707(b)(1), (2) and (3), after considering bank…
Date: June 27, 2013
Docket Number: 13-3150
Justia Opinion Summary: Bistline pled guilty to knowingly possessing 305 images and 56 videos of child pornography on his computer, many of which depicted 8- to 10-year-old girls being raped by adult men. His recommended Guidelines sentence was…
Date: June 20, 2013
Docket Number: 11-6175
Justia Opinion Summary: Mendoza drove a truck from North Carolina to Tennessee with Tavera as a passenger. The truck contained construction equipment. A large quantity of methamphetamine was hidden under nails. The truck was stopped after being…
Date: June 17, 2013
Docket Number: 12-6130
Justia Opinion Summary: Daley opened an IRA with Merrill Lynch, rolling over $64,646 from another financial institution. He signed a contract with a "liens" provision that pledged the IRA as security for any future debts to Merrill Lynch. No…
Date: June 11, 2013
Docket Number: 11-3142
Justia Opinion Summary: Hrivnak filed a purported class action under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, 15 U.S.C. 1692–1692p, and Ohio consumer-protection law, Ohio Rev. Code §§ 1345.01–.99, 4165.01–04, seeking statutory, compensatory, and…
Date: June 11, 2013
Docket Number: 12-3142
Justia Opinion Summary: Cleveland has had an age-65 mandatory retirement policy for police and fire department personnel since 1960. The policy allowed the chief of police or the fire department to allow a person to continue on active duty on a…
Date: June 11, 2013
Docket Number: 12-3238
Justia Opinion Summary: Stafford was convicted of violating 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(1), felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition, and sentenced to 262 months of imprisonment. His guideline calculation was enhanced based on armed-career-criminal…
Date: June 10, 2013
Docket Number: 11-2441
Justia Opinion Summary: The debtor worked Saylor’s nightclub and for another entity owned by Saylor, scouting for commercial properties. Debtor obtained loans ($1,018,350) to purchase four Michigan car washes. The loan closings were conducted…
Date: June 10, 2013
Docket Number: 12-3568
Justia Opinion Summary: Brigance worked as a coal miner for 20 years, until he stopped working in 1994 because of shortness of breath, which prevented him from obtaining other employment. Brigance obtained Kentucky state black lung benefits,…
Date: June 7, 2013
Docket Number: 12-4028
Justia Opinion Summary: Janosek owns a business that makes welded ring products. The business uses water to cool hydraulics used in the process. In or before 1999 Janosek installed closed loop water chillers that he hoped would recapture the…
Date: June 5, 2013
Docket Number: 11-5827
Justia Opinion Summary: Federal agents tracked Rivas from Texas to Memphis, suspecting he might be trafficking drugs. Rivas later met defendants and the three drove around Memphis in multiple vehicles before arriving at a warehouse. One of the…
Date: June 4, 2013
Docket Number: 11-2356
Justia Opinion Summary: In June 2007, Louzon, a Ford product engineer, took an approved leave of absence to visit family in Gaza. While he was there, security issues in the region caused Israel to close its borders, making it impossible for…
Date: June 4, 2013
Docket Number: 12-3549
Justia Opinion Summary: Suazo is a Honduran immigrant. He entered the U.S. without inspection in 1998. He has been in the U.S. continuously since that time. In 1999, Suazo was granted Temporary Protected Status (TPS) due to his Honduran…
Date: June 3, 2013
Docket Number: 11-1519
Justia Opinion Summary: While awaiting a hearing, Zabawa made threats and behaved in an agitated way. Officer Murphy decided to handcuff Zabawa to prevent him from disarming an officer. Before he could do so, Zabawa lunged at Murphy and…
Date: June 3, 2013
Docket Number: 12-1170
Date: June 3, 2013
Docket Number: 12-1757
Date: May 30, 2013
Docket Number: 10-1662
Justia Opinion Summary: Davis sued Cintas, individually and on behalf of a class of female job applicants denied employment as entry-level sales representatives, alleging that Cintas’s hiring practices led to gender discrimination, in violation…
Date: May 30, 2013
Docket Number: 11-2176
Date: May 29, 2013
Docket Number: 10-4538
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs, the owners and lessors of royalty rights to natural gas produced in Trumbull and Mahoning Counties in Ohio, filed a putative class-action lawsuit, alleging that three interrelated energy companies that…
Date: May 29, 2013
Docket Number: 12-4011
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2008, Washburn was seriously injured when the door of an airplane hangar, T-hangar 12, blew off and hit her in the face and torso during a storm at an airpark owned by Lawrence County and operated by Attitude…
Date: May 28, 2013
Docket Number: 02-1570
Justia Opinion Summary: In August, 1996, Timmerman arrived at her mother’s home, hysterical and bleeding from a laceration on her nose. She said that a man named Gabrion had raped her. Timmerman was 19 years old and had given birth to a baby…
Date: May 28, 2013
Docket Number: 11-6216
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2009, Epling purchased a manufactured home, borrowing funds from Vanderbilt secured by a security interest in her manufactured home. Epling resided in Magoffin County, Kentucky. Vanderbilt filed an application for…
Date: May 24, 2013
Docket Number: 12-5875
Justia Opinion Summary: The Trustee for McKenzie’s bankruptcy estate filed an adversary proceeding against GKH, McKenzie’s law firm (and a creditor), seeking records pertaining to entities in which McKenzie allegedly had an interest (11 U.S.C.…
Date: May 23, 2013
Docket Number: 12-2262
Justia Opinion Summary: USI sued defendants for five million dollars, claiming misappropriation of funds held in escrow. USI also sought relief under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act of Canada (similar to a reorganization bankruptcy).…
Date: May 23, 2013
Docket Number: 12-3538
Justia Opinion Summary: Exact developed business software. Infocon began distributing Exact’s software in 1998. A conflict arose when Exact allegedly abandoned a scheduled upgrade, leaving distributors like Infocon out to dry, and Infocon…
Date: May 23, 2013
Docket Number: 12-5287
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs are investors who purchased Omnicare securities in a 2005 public offering. They sold their securities a few weeks later and sought relief under the Securities Act of 1933,15 U.S.C. 77k, alleging that the…
Date: May 22, 2013
Docket Number: 11-1496
Justia Opinion Summary: The Michigan Department of Corrections agreed to house LaFountain at Lakeland in exchange for dismissal of his lawsuits. LaFountain wanted assignment to Lakeland to enable family visits and avoid further retaliation from…
Date: May 22, 2013
Docket Number: 12-1105
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs receive subsidies from Michigan’s Child Development and Care Program for providing home childcare services for low-income families. Following creation of the Home Based Child Care Council, a union was…
Date: May 20, 2013
Docket Number: 12-2136
Justia Opinion Summary: The Michigan State Real Estate Transfer Tax, MICH.COMP.LAWS 207.521, and the County Real Estate Transfer Tax, section 207.501, impose a tax when a deed or other instrument of conveyance is recorded during the transfer of…
Date: May 20, 2013
Docket Number: 12-2511
Date: May 17, 2013
Docket Number: 12-5582
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2005 the Blewetts were convicted of crack cocaine offenses and sentenced to a mandatory minimum of 10 years each under the 100-to-1 crack cocaine law, based on the quantity of crack cocaine possessed. The Fair…
Date: May 16, 2013
Docket Number: 11-2590
Date: May 16, 2013
Docket Number: 12-1591
Justia Opinion Summary: A confidential informant told law enforcement that he had seen cocaine and what he considered to be drug dealing at Brown’s house. An officer sought a warrant to search Brown’s home; in the affidavit, the officer…
Date: May 14, 2013
Docket Number: 11-2364
Justia Opinion Summary: Hill, Director of Risk Management for Detroit Public Schools invited Washington to submit a proposal for a wellness program for DPS employees. Washington and others joined Associates for Learning (A4L) and submitted a…
Date: May 14, 2013
Docket Number: 12-3641
Justia Opinion Summary: German law requires all children to attend public or state-approved private schools. The Romeikes, parents of five young children, feared that the public school curriculum would influence their children against Christian…
Date: May 14, 2013
Docket Number: 12-5775
Justia Opinion Summary: Crouch was piloting his Piper Lance II single-engine airplane with Hudson as passenger. After losing engine power at an altitude of 5000 feet, and finding it impossible to reach an airport, Crouch made a forced landing…
Date: May 13, 2013
Docket Number: 12-1811
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2011, the Michigan legislature enacted laws that barred sexually oriented businesses from displaying signs on the premises that contained more than “words or numbers,” Mich. Comp. Laws 125.2833; and imposed similar…
Date: May 13, 2013
Docket Number: 12-5494
Date: May 10, 2013
Docket Number: 11-2327
Justia Opinion Summary: Heartland is an investment firm that formerly held an ownership interest in Metaldyne, an automotive supplier. Leuliette is a co-founder of Heartland and was the CEO and Chairman of the Board of Metaldyne. Tredwell is…
Date: May 10, 2013
Docket Number: 11-5904
Justia Opinion Summary: Kennedy was Sheila’s husband and Scarborough was her close friend. They solicited money for investment in Sheila’s alleged real estate deals and proceedings to obtain an inheritance purportedly worth hundreds of millions…
Date: May 10, 2013
Docket Number: 12-1219
Justia Opinion Summary: Washington was convicted of three carjackings that occurred during three days in 2010. Washington and his accomplice were apprehended with loaded weapons soon afterwards. The trial court denied a motion to suppress a…
Date: May 10, 2013
Docket Number: 12-1963
Justia Opinion Summary: Smith, aged 20, took a cell phone charger. The store manager intercepted him and Smith revealed the open package, with part of the charger removed. Smith refused to stay while the manager called the police. Officers…
Date: May 10, 2013
Docket Number: 12-5978
Justia Opinion Summary: The parents and the grandmother of two black children sued the Nashville Board of Public Education on behalf of their children and all black students in the District whose school assignments were adversely affected by…
Date: May 9, 2013
Docket Number: 12-1803
Justia Opinion Summary: Michigan’s 2012 Public Act 53 provides: “A public school employer’s use of public school resources to assist a labor organization in collecting dues or service fees from wages of public school employees is a prohibited…
Date: May 9, 2013
Docket Number: 12-5078
Justia Opinion Summary: The Kepleys owned 30% of ATA’s outstanding capital stock. Lanz bought one share of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock in the corporation and a right to purchase common stock. At that time, Lanz, ATA, and its…
Date: May 7, 2013
Docket Number: 12-1660
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant had his girlfriend’s six-year-old sister pose nude in photographs and videos and touched the child’s genitalia. The girl’s parents alerted the police. Defendant confessed; police found sexually explicit…
Date: May 6, 2013
Docket Number: 12-4118
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2006, Thompson pleaded guilty to three counts of possessing crack cocaine with intent to distribute, 21 U.S.C. 841(a)(1) and (b)(1)(C).The government dismissed two remaining counts and agreed not to oppose Thompson’s…
Date: May 3, 2013
Docket Number: 10-5262
Justia Opinion Summary: In two trials, juries in Livingston County, Kentucky convicted Kraus of first-degree rape, sodomy, and sexual abuse involving two mentally delayed women. He is serving a prison sentence of 70 years with a life…
Date: May 3, 2013
Docket Number: 12-3037
Justia Opinion Summary: Dotson died in August 1998. An administrative law judge determined that his wife was entitled to survivor’s benefits under the 2010 Black Lung Amendments, Pub. Law 111-148, 1556(a)–(c). The Sixth Circuit denied the…
Date: May 3, 2013
Docket Number: 12-5372
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2001, Johnson began communicating online with an FBI agent he believed to be a 14-year-old girl. Johnson sent images of child pornography and arranged a meeting for sexual activity. Following his arrest, Johnson pled…
Date: May 1, 2013
Docket Number: 12-1523
Justia Opinion Summary: In 1974, songwriter, recording artist, producer, and performer Tilmon, composed the song “You’re Getting a Little Too Smart.” In 1976, Tilmon assigned all of his rights to the song to Bridgeport Music. In 1997, rapper…
Date: April 30, 2013
Docket Number: 12-3104
Date: April 30, 2013
Docket Number: 12-3540
Justia Opinion Summary: Manning, a lawyer who served as the executor of Barney’s estate and the trustee of a trust for Mrs. Barney, set up accounts at National City Bank, one for the estate and one for the trust. He then wired funds, totaling…
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