2019 Sixth Circuit US Court of Appeals Case Law
Opinions 1001 - 1146 of 1146
Date: February 26, 2019
Docket Numbers: 16-6726, 16-6368, 16-6371, 16-6370
Justia Opinion Summary: The defendants took part in a decade-long scheme surreptitiously to sell tax-free cigarettes, thereby defrauding federal, state, and local governments of more than $45 million in tax revenue. The federal government…
Date: February 26, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1165
Date: February 26, 2019
Docket Numbers: 18-1166, 18-1165
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2000, the Tribe had agreed to pay Monroe $265 million for Monroe’s 50% ownership interest in the Casino, giving the Tribe a 100% ownership interest. In 2002, the Tribe agreed to another $200 million debt in exchange…
Date: February 25, 2019
Docket Number: 17-2101
Justia Opinion Summary: Defendants, members of an FBI/Grand Rapids task force, were searching for Davison. Neither officer was wearing a uniform; both were wearing lanyards displaying their badges. Defendants knew that Davison was a 26-year-old…
Date: February 22, 2019
Docket Number: 18-3301
Justia Opinion Summary: Fulson owned Nicole Gas, which entered bankruptcy proceedings, and became dissatisfied with the Trustee’s handling of claims that Nicole Gas held against its competitors. With the help of attorneys Sanders and Lowe,…
Date: February 21, 2019
Docket Numbers: 18-1686, 18-1771
Justia Opinion Summary: Rottinghouse, an Airgas truck driver, was issued a written warning for failing to properly secure his cargo. An ALJ found that the company used that written discipline to retaliate against Rottinghouse for previously…
Date: February 21, 2019
Docket Number: 18-5426
Justia Opinion Summary: Murdock, an employee with the Tipton County Board of Education, received an email purporting to be from Dr. Bibb, Director of Tipton County Schools, requesting all 2016 employee W-2s and tax information. Murdock…
Date: February 15, 2019
Docket Number: 17-4223
Justia Opinion Summary: Sherman was incarcerated at the Trumbull County Jail where Drennan was a corrections officer. Drennen regularly patrolled the pod where Sherman lived with Rafferty, another female inmate. Three or four times, Sherman…
Date: February 14, 2019
Docket Number: 17-5824
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2002, Thomas and Gregory arranged to buy cocaine from Burdette at a Lexington Waffle House. They got into Burdette’s car, with Thomas in the back seat. Thomas grabbed Burdette from behind, held a gun to his head, and…
Date: February 14, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1460
Justia Opinion Summary: Maye became a member of the Nation of Islam—one of several Islamic sects— in 1992. Maye has been a devout, active Muslim for 20 years, including the years he spent incarcerated in Michigan Department of Corrections…
Date: February 13, 2019
Docket Number: 17-8019
Justia Opinion Summary: Attorney Boland was an expert witness and defense counsel in child pornography cases. To demonstrate that pornographic images may be altered to appear that minors were engaged in sexual conduct when they were not, Boland…
Date: February 12, 2019
Docket Numbers: 17-6071, 17-5995
Justia Opinion Summary: ODPS offers private security and traffic control services. Most ODPS workers are sworn officers for some law-enforcement entity. Non-sworn workers may have no background in law enforcement. ODPS offers assignments to…
Date: February 12, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1178
Justia Opinion Summary: A woman outside the prison provided an anonymous tip that Parrish, a federal prisoner, was texting her. Officers began a search; found Parrish in a prison bathroom; and saw him pull a cellphone from his pocket, break the…
Date: February 12, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1447
Date: February 12, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1736
Justia Opinion Summary: Saginaw, Michigan requires owners of vacant property to register their property. The registration form says that owners must permit the city to enter their property if it “becomes dangerous as defined by the City of…
Date: February 11, 2019
Docket Number: 17-1797
Date: February 8, 2019
Docket Numbers: 18-1124, 17-2159
Justia Opinion Summary: Officers searched for a fugitive in a house in which Jacobs rented a basement apartment. The house belonged to the fugitive’s brother. They did not find the fugitive. Following the search, plaintiff returned home from…
Date: February 6, 2019
Docket Number: 17-4313
Justia Opinion Summary: Tramble worked for various Kentucky coal companies from at least May 1963 until June 1985. Tramble’s 1987 claim for benefits under the Black Lung Benefits Act (BLBA), 30 U.S.C. 901–944, indicated that he had stopped…
Date: February 5, 2019
Docket Number: 17-2485
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2010, Ewing was tried as the shooter in a gang-related shooting. Ewing claimed that he was attending a funeral when the shooting happened and that the shooter was Washington. Ewing put on alibi witnesses and a…
Date: February 1, 2019
Docket Numbers: 18-3417, 18-3416
Justia Opinion Summary: King pleaded guilty as a felon in possession of ammunition and received a sentence of 46 months’ imprisonment. His three years of supervised release began in 2015. Two years, later the Probation Department filed a notice…
Date: January 30, 2019
Docket Number: 18-3452
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiffs brought medical malpractice claims in Ohio state court against a doctor who operated on them and against several hospitals where he worked. The plaintiffs allege that the judge presiding over their case, Judge…
Date: January 29, 2019
Docket Number: 17-4125
Justia Opinion Summary: The named plaintiffs in a suit under 29 U.S.C. 1132(a) represent several thousand current and former insurance agents for American Family Insurance and claim that American Family misclassified them as independent…
Date: January 25, 2019
Docket Number: 18-3615
Justia Opinion Summary: Dimond was hired by a Chinese manufacturer to “rig, dismantle, wash, and pack,” and ship used automotive assembly-line equipment to China. Dimond, which lacked experience in international shipment, hired BDP. Dimond…
Date: January 23, 2019
Docket Number: 17-3977
Justia Opinion Summary: Molina, born in El Salvador, grew up in an area where the “18th Street” gang was active. The gang attempted to recruit Molina. Molina claims that his uncle was murdered in 2008 for refusing to join the gang. Molina moved…
Date: January 23, 2019
Docket Number: 18-5627
Justia Opinion Summary: In an act of road rage, Bedford fired two shots at a truck driver while they both headed westbound on Interstate 40 in Tennessee. The truck driver, P.D., was employed by P&R, a private trucking company that had a…
Date: January 22, 2019
Docket Number: 16-4250
Justia Opinion Summary: After the FBI arrested Monea for money laundering, he told his attorney that the undercover agent coerced him into committing the crime. Much of the sting operation had been recorded; the threats Monea claimed were not…
Date: January 18, 2019
Docket Number: 18-3284
Justia Opinion Summary: Bolton petitioned the Board for Correction of Naval Records to expunge the summary-court martial from his military record based on his guilty plea to military charges related to his 2010 arrest for driving while drunk on…
Date: January 16, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1583
Date: January 10, 2019
Docket Number: 18-1258
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2000, Ann Arbor passed an ordinance requiring certain homeowners to undergo structural renovations to their homes to alleviate stormwater drainage problems affecting the city and surrounding areas. The city paid or…
Date: January 9, 2019
Docket Number: 18-5216
Justia Opinion Summary: The FBI accessed Playpen and verified that the website contained child pornography, then executed a search warrant at a North Carolina server hosting company that owned the IP address. The FBI seized a server that…
Date: January 4, 2019
Docket Numbers: 17-1769, 17-1698, 17-1699, 17-1745, 17-1752
Justia Opinion Summary: As a cost-saving measure, Flint's municipal water supply was switched from the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department (DWSD) to the Flint River and was processed by an outdated and previously mothballed water treatment…
Date: January 3, 2019
Docket Number: 16-3855
Justia Opinion Summary: Burris was convicted of conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute heroin, possession with intent to distribute heroin, and two counts of using a communication facility to facilitate a drug trafficking offense. …
Date: January 3, 2019
Docket Numbers: 18-1296, 18-1295
Justia Opinion Summary: Michigan’s Unemployment Insurance Agency's automated program, MiDAS, accessed claimant records from employers, state agencies, and the federal government. When MiDAS detected unreported income or “flagged” other…
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