2017 Sixth Circuit US Court of Appeals Case Law
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Date: February 13, 2017
Docket Number: 16-3530
Justia Opinion Summary: Maxxim’s Sidney, Kentucky repair shop makes and repairs mining equipment and machine parts, employing seven workers. Roughly 75% of the shop’s work is for equipment that Alpha (Maxxim’s parent company) uses to extract…
Date: February 10, 2017
Docket Numbers: 15-1929, 15-1783
Justia Opinion Summary: FirstEnergy established an employee-recognition program in 1973. By 2012 the value of the awards amounted to about five to seven dollars per year of service. The company and the unions representing its employees have…
Date: February 10, 2017
Docket Numbers: 15-2525, 15-2463
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs each owned real property in Van Buren County, Michigan in but failed to pay property taxes for 2011. In 2012, the properties became subject to forfeiture and foreclosure. In 2014, the circuit court issued a…
Date: February 9, 2017
Docket Number: 13-6387
Justia Opinion Summary: King confessed to an acquaintance and to a Tennessee Bureau of Investigation agent that, after drinking large amounts of alcohol, ingesting LSD, and Quaaludes, and engaging in sexual intercourse, King drove Smith to a…
Date: February 9, 2017
Docket Number: 16-2100
Justia Opinion Summary: The Michigan Campaign Finance Act, Mich. Comp. Laws 169.254, generally bars corporations and labor unions from contributing to political candidates and organizations, but permits them to form and contribute to political…
Date: February 8, 2017
Docket Numbers: 15-2362, 15-2308
Justia Opinion Summary: Watson, the chairman of Cyberco, created Teleservices as a “paper company” to run a Ponzi scheme. Teleservices had no separate officers, directors, or employees. Watson borrowed money and instructed lenders to send the…
Date: February 6, 2017
Docket Numbers: 14-2506, 15-1724, 14-2507
Justia Opinion Summary: “Overwhelming evidence” established that brothers Eric and Carlos ran a lucrative Detroit narcotics and money-laundering conspiracy. After an Arizona DEA investigation snared a middleman (Morawa), who had received large…
Date: February 3, 2017
Docket Number: 15-1580
Justia Opinion Summary: After a night of heavy drinking, LaVictor and his girlfriend, C.B., returned to LaVictor’s mother’s house on the Chippewa Reservation. During the night, LaVictor contacted emergency services because C.B. was bleeding…
Date: February 2, 2017
Docket Number: 16-1155
Justia Opinion Summary: Moody, engaged in harness racing, is the horse trainer of record for his family farm. The Michigan Gaming Control Board (MGCB) suspended Moody’s father, John, in 2010. John publicly criticized and sued the MGCB. An…
Date: January 27, 2017
Docket Number: 16-5461
Justia Opinion Summary: Kentucky’s Health and Family Services commenced a Dependency, Neglect, and Abuse proceeding. The mother stipulated to neglecting her children. Kentucky placed both boys in foster care. R.O., the mother’s aunt, sought…
Date: January 27, 2017
Docket Number: 16-6078
Justia Opinion Summary: Williams, an AT&T Customer Service Representative (CSR), since 2006, suffered from depression and anxiety attacks. AT&T terminated Williams in 2014 for job abandonment and for violating the company’s attendance policy. …
Date: January 26, 2017
Docket Numbers: 14-6081, 14-6451, 15-5045, 15-5738
Justia Opinion Summary: Porter led a large Clarksville, Tennessee cocaine-trafficking organization; Vance distributed the cocaine to Parnell, Duncan, and others, using a stash house in the Summit Heights housing projects and a cookhouse nearby.…
Date: January 25, 2017
Docket Number: 16-6232
Justia Opinion Summary: Hirt, owner of Andy’s Pharmacies, alleged that Walgreen Company distributed kickbacks ($25 gift cards) to Medicare and Medicaid recipients when they transferred their prescriptions to Walgreens, in violation of the…
Date: January 24, 2017
Docket Number: 16-5160
Justia Opinion Summary: Waldman defrauded Stone more than a decade ago. In Waldman’s first appeal, the Sixth Circuit found ample evidence that Waldman and attorney Atherton defrauded Stone, but vacated the judgment on grounds unrelated to the…
Date: January 23, 2017
Docket Number: 15-3653
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2000, Leonard followed his former fiancé, Flick, to her home, where he handcuffed Flick and pointed a gun as Flick called to tell Gries that she was not coming to his house. Gries determined that she was in danger.…
Date: January 23, 2017
Docket Number: 16-1200
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2013, Jurgensen allegedly developed an idea for a mobile application to connect employers with prospective employees, called “WorkWire.” He formed Creative Harbor; an attorney allegedly advised that the WorkWIre…
Date: January 20, 2017
Docket Number: 15-3950
Justia Opinion Summary: Kelly was convicted, in Ohio state court, of felony murder, felonious assault, and assault for his involvement in a 2009 fight near Kent State University and was sentenced to 15 years to life imprisonment. On direct…
Date: January 20, 2017
Docket Number: 16-3245
Justia Opinion Summary: Lovano, a citizen of Canada, was admitted to the U.S. as a lawful permanent resident in 1973. In 1993 Lovano was convicted in Ohio for attempting to pass bad checks and theft. Although deportation proceedings were…
Date: January 18, 2017
Docket Number: 15-5641
Justia Opinion Summary: Cross was convicted of a federal marijuana offense in 2006 and sentenced to 60 months in prison, plus 48 months of supervised release. During his first 32 months of supervised release, Cross committed two state-law…
Date: January 18, 2017
Docket Number: 16-5470
Justia Opinion Summary: Before 2013, the surviving spouse of a member of Chattanooga’s Fire and Police Pension Fund could receive benefits after the member died without incurring a proportional reduction in the member’s lifetime benefits. In…
Date: January 17, 2017
Docket Numbers: 16-8022, 16-8023
Justia Opinion Summary: Qi obtained a $2,500,000 state court judgment against the Zengas and filed involuntary chapter 7 bankruptcy petitions against them. They moved to dismiss, asserting that because they had 12 or more creditors, the…
Date: January 13, 2017
Docket Number: 15-2234
Justia Opinion Summary: The accreditation of White’s travel agency, CTC, was revoked in 2003 after audits conducted by United Airlines uncovered fraudulent ticketing schemes that cost the airline $100,000 in airfares. White continued working…
Date: January 13, 2017
Docket Number: 16-1137
Justia Opinion Summary: Pouncy, age 18, was charged with carjacking, armed robbery, felony firearm possession, and being a felon in possession of a firearm. The Michigan state court appointed attorney Breczinski to represent Pouncy. Before…
Date: January 12, 2017
Docket Number: 16-1007
Date: January 11, 2017
Docket Number: 16-1365
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff and Henry married in 1987 and divorced in 1993. The Divorce Judgment granted Plaintiff one-half of the pension benefits Henry had accrued during the marriage, with full rights of survivorship. Henry was…
Date: January 11, 2017
Docket Number: 16-6180
Justia Opinion Summary: Hopkins died in a nursing home. Her estate sued the nursing home, Preferred Care, which asked a federal court to enforce the arbitration provision in Hopkins’ admissions agreement. The district court compelled…
Date: January 10, 2017
Docket Numbers: 14-2275, 14-2274
Justia Opinion Summary: DTE's Monroe plaint is the largest coal-fired power plant in Michigan; in 2010, DTE undertook a $65 million overhaul. The day before construction began, DTE submitted notice to the Michigan Department of Environmental…
Date: January 9, 2017
Docket Number: 15-1823
Justia Opinion Summary: Mirza called Detective Dare, told Dare that Brown was a drug dealer, and agreed to set up controlled purchases. The first controlled buy occurred in September 2005. Brown was arrested in January 2006, waived his Miranda…
Date: January 9, 2017
Docket Number: 15-2441
Justia Opinion Summary: Hilliard (age 19) was a prostitute staying at a Madison Heights, Michigan Motel 6 while Officer Wolowiec was conducting a narcotics investigation. Wolowiece saw a bag of marijuana through Hilliard’s open window.…
Date: January 9, 2017
Docket Number: 15-6384
Justia Opinion Summary: Decatur County Sheriff’s Department Officer Jones conducted a controlled buy of marijuana on May 22, 2013, through a confidential informant (CI) as part of a county-wide drug–bust operation. A warrant issued for…
Date: January 6, 2017
Docket Numbers: 16-1245, 16-1249
Justia Opinion Summary: During an investigation into alleged misconduct at the Bay County jail, union president Gillis received complaints that the jail’s staff felt intimidated by management’s tactics. Gillis worked with Sergeant Walraven to…
Date: January 6, 2017
Docket Number: 16-1282
Justia Opinion Summary: Turfah, a citizen of Lebanon, entered the U.S. in September 1995, when he was 19 years old, on a visa that allowed him to enter as an unmarried child under the age of 21 who was “accompanying or following to join” his…
Date: January 4, 2017
Docket Number: 15-8031
Justia Opinion Summary: Debtor’s bankruptcy schedules indicated she had $1,500 in a checking account and no cash on hand. The Kentucky Medicare Fraud Unit subsequently searched her home and seized $270,000 in cash. Debtor was indicted for…
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