2018 Sixth Circuit US Court of Appeals Case Law
Opinions 1001 - 1090 of 1090
Date: February 2, 2018
Docket Numbers: 14-3718, 99-4317
Justia Opinion Summary: Hill’s death penalty sentence was imposed in 1986. Hill brought a habeas petition, arguing that he may not be executed because he is “intellectually disabled,” as defined in subsequent Supreme Court cases. In 2002 the…
Date: February 2, 2018
Docket Number: 14-5418
Justia Opinion Summary: Caudill and Goforth broke into White’s home and beat her to death with a hammer when she refused to give them money to buy drugs. After ransacking her home, they loaded her body in the trunk of her car, drove to an empty…
Date: February 1, 2018
Docket Number: 17-1234
Justia Opinion Summary: Superior, a nonprofit corporation, operates 21 Michigan radio broadcast stations. The City of Riverview owns a 320-foot broadcast tower. With an FCC permit to operate a low-powered FM radio broadcast station, Superior…
Date: February 1, 2018
Docket Number: 17-4221
Justia Opinion Summary: The Sixth Circuit affirmed the denial of a motion brought by Ohio death-row inmates to enjoin their pending executions. The inmates claimed that Ohio’s midazolam-based, three-drug execution protocol presents a…
Date: January 31, 2018
Docket Number: 17-2147
Justia Opinion Summary: Black was convicted of conspiracy to possess and possession with intent to distribute cocaine and marijuana, 21 U.S.C. 841(a)(1) and 846, and escape or attempted escape from custody, 18 U.S.C. 751(a). He was sentenced…
Date: January 31, 2018
Docket Number: 17-3733
Justia Opinion Summary: In 1990, an Ohio state court ordered Jacobs to pay Collin $13,800 in child-support payments. Jacobs subsequently began to receive social security benefits, but, by January 2014, Jacobs’s arrearage totaled $45,356. The…
Date: January 29, 2018
Docket Number: 17-1459
Justia Opinion Summary: Biestek, age 54, worked for most of his life as a carpenter and a construction laborer, frequently transporting scaffolding, panels, and other construction materials around work sites. He completed at least one year of…
Date: January 26, 2018
Docket Number: 17-5809
Justia Opinion Summary: In 1988, an ALJ awarded Smith supplemental security income (SSI). Smith received benefits until 2004 when he was found to be over the resource limit. Smith filed another SSI application in 2012, alleging additional…
Date: January 24, 2018
Docket Number: 17-5590
Justia Opinion Summary: Pittington worked for Lumberjack for five months before he was fired for supporting his wife (a Lumberjack employee) in her sexual harassment complaint. Before being fired, Pittington was demoted, had his hours reduced,…
Date: January 23, 2018
Docket Number: 16-6615
Date: January 22, 2018
Docket Number: 16-3735
Justia Opinion Summary: A jeweler and a coin dealer brought facial and as-applied Fourth Amendment challenges to warrantless search provisions in Ohio’s Precious Metals Dealers Act (PMDA). Section 4728.05(A) allows the state to “investigate the…
Date: January 22, 2018
Docket Number: 17-3854
Justia Opinion Summary: Crabbs, acquitted of voluntary manslaughter but subjected to a DNA swab before his release, filed a 42 U.S.C. 1983 claim alleging that the local police violated his Fourth Amendment right to be secure from unreasonable…
Date: January 19, 2018
Docket Number: 17-3345
Date: January 17, 2018
Docket Number: 17-1072
Justia Opinion Summary: Peffer, a caregiver, grew marijuana for medical-marijuana patients and sold the excess to Beemer’s Medical Marijuana Dispensary. Beemer became a confidential informant. Driving to meet Beemer, Peffer was stopped by…
Date: January 17, 2018
Docket Number: 17-3669
Justia Opinion Summary: Diaz entered the U.S. in 2002. She was apprehended in 2007 and placed in removal proceedings. At a 2012 hearing, Diaz sought asylum and withholding of removal, claiming that she believed the La Familia drug cartel, would…
Date: January 17, 2018
Docket Number: 17-6038
Justia Opinion Summary: Lee pleaded guilty to three crimes in Tennessee state court, served his sentences, and was released from state custody in 1998. While serving time in federal prison for a subsequent crime, 20 years later, Lee sought…
Date: January 11, 2018
Docket Number: 17-5277
Justia Opinion Summary: Working at Ford’s Twin Cities Plant in 2001, Saunders’s right arm got caught in a machine, causing him to lose almost all use of that arm. Saunders received workers’ compensation. He returned to work with restrictions…
Date: January 10, 2018
Docket Number: 17-1007
Justia Opinion Summary: Leapers makes rifle scopes, textured with “knurling,” allowing users to grip the products more easily and to make fine-tuned adjustments. Knurling can be found on many items, including door handles, coin edges, and…
Date: January 9, 2018
Docket Number: 14-6445
Justia Opinion Summary: Miller was sentenced to death for a 1981 murder. A psychiatrist who examined Miller twice found him competent to stand trial and opined that Miller was not insane at the time of the murder. The court denied Miller’s…
Date: January 9, 2018
Docket Number: 16-2544
Date: January 9, 2018
Docket Number: 16-5563
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2014, voters approved an amendment to the Tennessee Constitution making clear that the Constitution is not to be construed as securing or protecting a right to abortion or requiring funding of an abortion (Amendment…
Date: January 9, 2018
Docket Number: 17-5562
Justia Opinion Summary: Herald-Leader sells and distributes Community News, a weekly four- to six-page non-subscription publication, containing local news and advertising for Lexington, Kentucky and the surrounding area. Herald-Leader delivers…
Date: January 8, 2018
Docket Number: 16-5368
Justia Opinion Summary: Downs pled guilty to conspiring to distribute 50 grams or more of crack cocaine, 21 U.S.C. 841(a)(1) and 846. On August 2, 2010, the court orally pronounced a sentence of 10 years’ imprisonment, then the…
Date: January 4, 2018
Docket Number: 15-4196
Justia Opinion Summary: Stimmel tried to purchase a firearm at a Walmart store in 2002. The store rejected Stimmel’s offer because a mandatory national background check revealed that he had been convicted of misdemeanor domestic violence in…
Date: January 4, 2018
Docket Numbers: 16-4249, 16-4248
Justia Opinion Summary: Cincinnati ordinances provide guidelines for selecting the “lowest and best bidder” on Department of Sewers projects to “ensure efficient use of taxpayer dollars, minimize waste, and promote worker safety and fair…
Date: January 3, 2018
Docket Number: 17-5529
Date: January 2, 2018
Docket Number: 16-2274
Justia Opinion Summary: Heimer, one year over the legal drinking age, drank alcohol with friends and then rode motorbikes in a field. Heimer and his friend collided. Heimer suffered extensive injuries, incurring more than $197,333.50 in medical…
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