2021 Sixth Circuit US Court of Appeals Case Law

Opinions 1001 - 1159 of 1159

Robert Martin v. Comm'r of Soc. Sec.
Date: February 3, 2021
 Docket Number: 19-6397
Patricia Richards v. Comm'r of Soc. Sec.
Date: February 3, 2021
 Docket Number: 19-6398
Regina Reed v. Comm'r of Soc. Sec.
Date: February 3, 2021
 Docket Number: 19-6399
Ross Fleming v. Comm'r of Soc. Sec.
Date: February 3, 2021
 Docket Number: 19-6400
Teresa Akers v. Comm'r of Soc. Sec.
Date: February 3, 2021
 Docket Number: 19-6401
Stephen Kidd v. Comm'r of Soc. Sec.
Date: February 3, 2021
 Docket Number: 19-6402
Elizabeth Wright v. Comm'r of Soc. Sec.
Date: February 3, 2021
 Docket Number: 19-6403
Margie Lewis v. Comm'r of Soc. Sec.
Date: February 3, 2021
 Docket Number: 19-6412
Tommy Maynard v. Comm'r of Soc. Sec.
Date: February 3, 2021
 Docket Number: 19-6413
Lana Gresham v. Comm'r of Soc. Sec.
Date: February 3, 2021
 Docket Number: 19-6414
Rodney Justice v. Comm'r of Soc. Sec.
Date: February 3, 2021
 Docket Number: 19-6415
Marsha Kidd v. Comm'r of Soc. Sec.
Date: February 3, 2021
 Docket Number: 19-6419
Benny Cole v. Comm'r of Soc. Sec.
Date: February 3, 2021
 Docket Number: 19-6422
United States v. Richard Derringer
Date: February 3, 2021
 Docket Number: 19-6427
Michael Cline v. Comm'r of Soc. Sec.
Date: February 3, 2021
 Docket Number: 19-6432
Gregory Salisbury v. Comm'r of Soc. Sec.
Date: February 3, 2021
 Docket Number: 19-6433
Eddie Reed v. Comm'r of Soc. Sec.
Date: February 3, 2021
 Docket Number: 19-6438
Margaret Copley v. Comm'r of Soc. Sec.
Date: February 3, 2021
 Docket Number: 19-6439
Ranie Coleman v. Comm'r of Soc. Sec.
Date: February 3, 2021
 Docket Number: 19-6440
Janie Shepherd v. Comm'r of Soc. Sec.
Date: February 3, 2021
 Docket Number: 19-6441
Lenny Newsome v. Comm'r of Soc. Sec.
Date: February 3, 2021
 Docket Number: 19-6442
Janice Workman v. Comm'r of Soc. Sec.
Date: February 3, 2021
 Docket Number: 19-6443
Joann Holbrook v. Comm'r of Soc. Sec.
Date: February 3, 2021
 Docket Number: 19-6444
Betty Robinson v. Comm'r of Soc. Sec.
Date: February 3, 2021
 Docket Number: 19-6445
Kathy Ramey v. Comm'r of Soc. Sec.
Date: February 3, 2021
 Docket Number: 19-6446
Carolyn Bates v. Comm'r of Soc. Sec.
Date: February 3, 2021
 Docket Number: 19-6452
Kathleen Curtis v. Comm'r of Soc. Sec.
Date: February 3, 2021
 Docket Number: 19-6453
United States v. Raymond Hunter
Date: February 3, 2021
 Docket Number: 19-6464
Chad Shepherd v. Comm'r of Soc. Sec.
Date: February 3, 2021
 Docket Number: 19-6472
Danny Reed v. Comm'r of Soc. Sec.
Date: February 3, 2021
 Docket Number: 19-6473
Tracy Hannah v. Comm'r of Soc. Sec.
Date: February 3, 2021
 Docket Number: 19-6474
Martin Gillespie v. Comm'r of Soc. Sec.
Date: February 3, 2021
 Docket Number: 19-6487
Chessie Gray v. Comm'r of Soc. Sec.
Date: February 3, 2021
 Docket Number: 19-6488
Clinton Mullins v. Comm'r of Soc. Sec.
Date: February 3, 2021
 Docket Number: 19-6489
Robert Muncy, II v. Comm'r of Soc. Sec.
Date: February 3, 2021
 Docket Number: 19-6490
Mary Sexton v. Comm'r of Soc. Sec.
Date: February 3, 2021
 Docket Number: 19-6491
Brenda Stewart v. Comm'r of Soc. Sec.
Date: February 3, 2021
 Docket Number: 19-6492
League of Independent Fitness Facilities v. Gretchen Whitmer
Date: February 3, 2021
 Docket Number: 20-1581
Jordan v. Howard  
Date: February 3, 2021
 Docket Number: 20-3274

Justia Opinion Summary: During the early morning hours of October 20, 2017, McShann was asleep in the driver’s seat of a locked, running car with his right hand resting on a pistol in his lap and music blaring from the car stereo. Officers,…

Carlo Croce v. David Sanders
Date: February 3, 2021
 Docket Number: 20-3577
United States v. James Brown
Date: February 3, 2021
 Docket Number: 20-4052
John Perkins v. Comm'r of Soc. Sec.
Date: February 3, 2021
 Docket Number: 20-5057
Edd Paige v. Comm'r of Soc. Sec.
Date: February 3, 2021
 Docket Number: 20-5058
Michelle Maynard v. Comm'r of Soc. Sec.
Date: February 3, 2021
 Docket Number: 20-5059
Danny Johnson v. Comm'r of Soc. Sec.
Date: February 3, 2021
 Docket Number: 20-5060
James Taylor v. Comm'r of Soc. Sec.
Date: February 3, 2021
 Docket Number: 20-5061
Terry Shepherd v. Comm'r of Soc. Sec.
Date: February 3, 2021
 Docket Number: 20-5062
Janet Skaggs v. Comm'r of Soc. Sec.
Date: February 3, 2021
 Docket Number: 20-5063
Patricia LeMaster v. Comm'r of Soc. Sec.
Date: February 3, 2021
 Docket Number: 20-5064
Marcia Hylton v. Comm'r of Soc. Sec.
Date: February 3, 2021
 Docket Number: 20-5065
Jimmy Kilgore v. Comm'r of Soc. Sec.
Date: February 3, 2021
 Docket Number: 20-5066
Teresa Hinkle-Spears v. Comm'r of Soc. Sec.
Date: February 3, 2021
 Docket Number: 20-5067
Tammy Slone v. Comm'r of Soc. Sec.
Date: February 3, 2021
 Docket Number: 20-5078
Cora Russelburg v. Comm'r of Soc. Sec.
Date: February 3, 2021
 Docket Number: 20-5079
Sherri Combs v. Comm'r of Soc. Sec.
Date: February 3, 2021
 Docket Number: 20-5080
Martha Neace v. Comm'r of Soc. Comm'r of Soc. Sec.
Date: February 3, 2021
 Docket Number: 20-5106
Elizabeth White v. Comm'r of Soc. Sec.
Date: February 3, 2021
 Docket Number: 20-5107
Donna Jewell v. Comm'r of Soc. Sec.
Date: February 3, 2021
 Docket Number: 20-5108
Peggy Wolford v. Comm'r of Soc. Sec.
Date: February 3, 2021
 Docket Number: 20-5109
Sharon Thompson v. Comm'r of Soc. Sec.
Date: February 3, 2021
 Docket Number: 20-5146
Wireman v. Commissioner of Social Security  
Date: February 3, 2021
 Docket Numbers: 20-5159, 19-6395, 19-6396, 19-6397, 19-6398, 19-6399, 19-6400, 19-6401, 19-6402, 19-6403, 19-6412, 19-6413, 19-6414, 19-6415, 19-6419, 19-6422, 19-6432, 19-6433, 19-6438, 19-6438, 19-6440, 19-6441, 19-6442, 19-6443, 19-6444, 19-6445, 19-6446, 19-6452, 19-6453, 19-6472, 19-6473, 19-6474, 19-6487, 19-6488, 19-6489, 19-6490, 19-6491, 19-6492, 20-5057, 20-5058, 20-5059, 20-5060, 20-5061, 20-5062, 20-5063, 20-5064, 20-5065, 20-5066, 20-5067, 20-5078, 20-5079, 20-5080, 20-5106, 20-5107, 20-5108, 20-5109, 20-5146

Justia Opinion Summary: For many years, attorney Conn obtained social security benefits for his clients by submitting fraudulent reports and bribing an Administrative Law Judge. After the government discovered this fraud, the SSA decided to…

United States v. Patsy Wardle
Date: February 2, 2021
 Docket Number: 19-5998
United States v. Sherwood  
Date: February 2, 2021
 Docket Number: 20-4085

Justia Opinion Summary: In 2015, Sherwood pleaded guilty to transporting visual depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct and possessing child pornography and received a below-Guidelines sentence of 108 months’ imprisonment. In…

United States v. Lawrence Whited
Date: February 1, 2021
 Docket Number: 20-4002
Robert Cundiff v. Worldwide Battery Co., LLC
Date: February 1, 2021
 Docket Number: 20-5486
Robert Cundiff v. Worldwide Battery Co., LLC
Date: February 1, 2021
 Docket Number: 20-5556
In re Murray Energy Holdings Co.  
Date: February 1, 2021
 Docket Number: 20-8017

Justia Opinion Summary: Coal companies (last signatory operators) must provide health and retiree benefits through individual employer plans (IEPs), 26 U.S.C. 9711(a), (b); the 1992 Plan provides benefits for retirees who do not receive…

Produce Pay, Inc. v. Spiech Farms, LLC
Date: January 29, 2021
 Docket Number: 20-1048
United States v. Jeremy Morton
Date: January 28, 2021
 Docket Number: 19-2443
United States v. Jeremy Morton
Date: January 28, 2021
 Docket Number: 19-2444
Watkins v. Healy  
Date: January 28, 2021
 Docket Number: 20-1074

Justia Opinion Summary: In 1975, schoolteacher and drug dealer Ingram was robbed and shot dead in her Detroit home. Watkins’s 20-year-old high school classmate, Herndon, testified that he and Watkins robbed and murdered Ingram together.…

Eric Earnest, Jr. v. Genesee Cnty., Mich.
Date: January 28, 2021
 Docket Number: 20-1342
United States v. Clarence Tucker
Date: January 28, 2021
 Docket Number: 20-3096
Robert Taglione v. Charter Commc'ns, LLC
Date: January 28, 2021
 Docket Number: 20-3680
David Johnson v. Joseph Smith
Date: January 28, 2021
 Docket Number: 20-5505
United States v. Quintanilla-Navarro  
Date: January 28, 2021
 Docket Number: 20-5640

Justia Opinion Summary: In 2017, Quintanilla pleaded guilty to conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute and possessing with intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine and illegally reentering the U.S. after…

Moaied Solaka v. Robert M. Wilkinson
Date: January 27, 2021
 Docket Number: 19-3134
EnTech, LTD. v. Marcia Speece
Date: January 27, 2021
 Docket Number: 19-4233
United States v. Devin Lewis
Date: January 26, 2021
 Docket Number: 19-2389
United States v. David Thomas, Jr.
Date: January 26, 2021
 Docket Number: 19-4231
Larry Redmon v. Yorozu Automotive Tenn., Inc.
Date: January 26, 2021
 Docket Number: 19-5395
Church Joint Venture, L.P. v. Blasingame  
Date: January 26, 2021
 Docket Number: 19-5505

Justia Opinion Summary: In 2008, the Blasingames met with attorneys Fullen and Grusin to discuss their financial situation and signed engagement agreements. The Blasingames filed a Chapter 7 bankruptcy petition with Fullen as the attorney of…

United States v. John Wright
Date: January 26, 2021
 Docket Number: 19-6466
United States v. ____ ____  
Date: January 26, 2021
 Docket Number: 19-____

Justia Opinion Summary: X pleaded guilty in 2014 to possession with intent to distribute Oxycodone and was sentenced to 150 months’ imprisonment. While serving his sentence at a North Carolina federal correctional institution, X heard another…

United States v. Zachary Thomas
Date: January 26, 2021
 Docket Number: 20-1273
Candise Hooker v. Wanigas Credit Union
Date: January 26, 2021
 Docket Number: 20-2252
Ohio v. United States Department of Education  
Date: January 25, 2021
 Docket Number: 19-3397

Justia Opinion Summary: The 1936 Randolph-Sheppard Vending Stand Act (RSA), 20 U.S.C. 107(a), authorizes blind persons to operate vending facilities on federal property. The Department of Education prescribes RSA regulations and designates the…

Yasemeen Shafo v. Robert M. Wilkinson
Date: January 25, 2021
 Docket Number: 19-4143
Rembert v. A Plus Home Health Care Agency, LLC  
Date: January 25, 2021
 Docket Number: 20-3454

Justia Opinion Summary: Rembert, a nurse, routinely worked more than 40 hours per week for A Plus but did not receive overtime. Rembert filed a purported class action under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The Department of Labor…

Roberto Guerrero-Ramirez v. Robert M. Wilkinson
Date: January 25, 2021
 Docket Number: 20-3478
United States v. Marcus Franklin
Date: January 22, 2021
 Docket Number: 19-6449
Ryan Owens
Date: January 22, 2021
 Docket Number: 20-1474
Chris Codden v. Manistee Area Pub. Schs. Bd of Educ.
Date: January 22, 2021
 Docket Number: 20-1659
Nitza Scarbro v. SSA
Date: January 22, 2021
 Docket Number: 20-5416
United States v. Michael Nuyen
Date: January 21, 2021
 Docket Number: 20-1212
United States v. Nelson  
Date: January 21, 2021
 Docket Number: 20-3154

Justia Opinion Summary: Nelson pleaded guilty to distributing visual depictions of real minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct, 18 U.S.C. 2252(a)(2). At sentencing, the parties disputed whether Nelson’s prior Ohio conviction for attempted…

Manalapan Mining Co., Inc. v. OWCP
Date: January 21, 2021
 Docket Number: 20-3240
AtriCure, Inc. v. Jian Meng
Date: January 21, 2021
 Docket Number: 20-3264
In re: Paul Darren Smith
Date: January 21, 2021
 Docket Number: 20-8015
In re: Leonard Nyamusevya, Sr.
Date: January 20, 2021
 Docket Number: 19-8027
Thomas Pieczonka v. Progressive Select Ins. Co.
Date: January 20, 2021
 Docket Number: 20-3537
Lester v. Roberts  
Date: January 20, 2021
 Docket Number: 20-5011

Justia Opinion Summary: In 2007, Hudson was shot and killed in his Louisville apartment. Detective Roberts sought DNA testing for items at the murder scene. DNA on a hat came back “consistent with a mixture” from Lester, Baker, and an unknown…

Plaintiff v. Defendant
Date: January 19, 2021
 Docket Number: 19-3265
Plaintiff v. Defendant
Date: January 19, 2021
 Docket Number: 19-3442
Thomas Calvey v. Village of Walton Hills, Ohio
Date: January 19, 2021
 Docket Number: 20-3139
United States v. Hampton  
Date: January 19, 2021
 Docket Number: 20-3649

Justia Opinion Summary: Hampton pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute cocaine and aiding and abetting possession of a firearm in furtherance of the conspiracy. His 204-month sentence was eventually reduced to 180 months based on an…

Lori Drews v. Berrien Cnty., Mich.
Date: January 15, 2021
 Docket Number: 20-1267
Thompson v. Fresh Products, LLC  
Date: January 15, 2021
 Docket Number: 20-3060

Justia Opinion Summary: Thompson, an African-American, has arthritis in her knees, back, and neck. Her doctor gave her lifting restrictions at a previous job. She was approved for Social Security Disability payments in 2014 based on a primary…

United States v. Nakeysha Wisdom
Date: January 14, 2021
 Docket Number: 19-2236
Shane Group, Inc. v. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Mich.
Date: January 14, 2021
 Docket Number: 19-2260
United States v. Olufolajimi Abegunde
Date: January 14, 2021
 Docket Number: 19-6229
David Cameron v. Randee Rewerts
Date: January 14, 2021
 Docket Number: 20-1140
Tagnetics, Inc. v. Kenneth Kayser
Date: January 14, 2021
 Docket Number: 20-3556
United States v. Martrel Arnold
Date: January 14, 2021
 Docket Number: 20-5086
Joanna Perkin v. Jackson Public Sch.
Date: January 13, 2021
 Docket Number: 20-1332
Andre Terrell v. Ed Sheldon
Date: January 13, 2021
 Docket Number: 20-3494
Victoria Cunningham v. Dep't of Children's Servs.
Date: January 13, 2021
 Docket Number: 20-5216
Prashan Gunasekera v. War Memorial Hosp.
Date: January 12, 2021
 Docket Number: 20-1340
Thomas McDonald, Jr. v. Tamara Chambers
Date: January 12, 2021
 Docket Number: 20-1376
E. A. C. A. v. Rosen  
Date: January 12, 2021
 Docket Number: 20-3216

Justia Opinion Summary: E.A., a citizen of El Salvador unlawfully entered the U.S. in 2016, at age 12, as an unaccompanied minor and was released to her mother, who resided in New York. Shortly thereafter, the family relocated to Arkansas,…

Pelcha v. MW Bancorp, Inc.  
Date: January 12, 2021
 Docket Number: 20-3511

Justia Opinion Summary: Pelcha began working as a bank teller in 2005. A new supervisor, Sonderman, began overseeing Pelcha in 2016 and required her direct reports to submit written requests for any time out of the office by the middle of the…

Rita Fenwick v. Hartford Life & Accident Ins.
Date: January 12, 2021
 Docket Number: 20-5595
United States v. Milliron  
Date: January 11, 2021
 Docket Number: 19-3720

Justia Opinion Summary: U.S. Marshals searching for Milliron in Ohio, based on an outstanding Florida warrant, located Milliron driving his truck. Milliron led the Marshals and local police on a 35-mile chase, hurling glass bottles and…

United States v. Jessie Cantie
Date: January 11, 2021
 Docket Number: 20-3151
Oksana Ivanushchak v. Jeffrey Rosen
Date: January 11, 2021
 Docket Number: 20-3233
Elmer Portillo-Solis v. Jeffrey Rosen
Date: January 11, 2021
 Docket Number: 20-3377
Devonere Simmonds v. Richard Bowen
Date: January 11, 2021
 Docket Number: 20-3591
United States v. Darryle Cooper
Date: January 11, 2021
 Docket Number: 20-5241
Alan Rupp v. The Courier-Journal
Date: January 11, 2021
 Docket Number: 20-5409
Anders v. Cuevas  
Date: January 8, 2021
 Docket Numbers: 19-2191, 20-1165, 20-1166

Justia Opinion Summary: When Anders purchased Star in 2015, Star had been contracted to conduct tows for the Michigan State Police for 15 years and was on the state’s non-preference tow rotation list for Monroe County. The state police’s…

United States v. Dominique Gilbert
Date: January 8, 2021
 Docket Number: 19-2232
Shane Anders v. Tony Cuevas
Date: January 8, 2021
 Docket Number: 20-1165
Shane Anders v. Tony Cuevas
Date: January 8, 2021
 Docket Number: 20-1166
Scottsdale Ins. Co. v. Altman Mgmt. Co.
Date: January 8, 2021
 Docket Number: 20-1361
Terry Houthoofd v. Tuscola Cnty, Mich. Road Comm'n
Date: January 8, 2021
 Docket Number: 20-1678
Dibrell v. City of Knoxville  
Date: January 8, 2021
 Docket Number: 20-5528

Justia Opinion Summary: An unknown person flagged down Knoxville Officer Whitehead, claiming that Dibrell was selling drugs out of his Chrysler at a Walgreens. Whitehead relayed this tip to three officers who went to the Walgreens and blocked…

United States v. Alfredo Martinez
Date: January 7, 2021
 Docket Number: 19-5637
Kubala v. Smith  
Date: January 7, 2021
 Docket Number: 20-3085

Justia Opinion Summary: Kubala worked for Trumbull County as a “fiduciary” employee; he was not under civil-service rules and could participate in partisan political activities. Kubala reported to Smith, who holds an elected position. Kubala…

Singh v. Rosen  
Date: January 7, 2021
 Docket Number: 20-3127

Justia Opinion Summary: Singh, a citizen of India, came to the U.S. in 1991, then 22 years old. He obtained a temporary transit visa for work on a ship, Singh drove cabs instead. He has taken periodic trips back to India. In 1997 and 2005 he…

United States v. Guled Mohamed
Date: January 7, 2021
 Docket Number: 20-5031
United States v. Patrice Harold
Date: January 6, 2021
 Docket Number: 19-1947
United States v. Demario Peterson
Date: January 6, 2021
 Docket Number: 19-2278
United States v. Michael Ash
Date: January 6, 2021
 Docket Number: 19-2450
United States v. Patrice Harold
Date: January 6, 2021
 Docket Number: 19-2458
United States v. Patrice Harold
Date: January 6, 2021
 Docket Number: 19-2459
William Husel v. Trinity Health Corp.
Date: January 6, 2021
 Docket Number: 20-1528
Rose Dikeh v. Jeffrey Rosen
Date: January 6, 2021
 Docket Number: 20-3635
United States v. Elias  
Date: January 6, 2021
 Docket Number: 20-3654

Justia Opinion Summary: Elias pled guilty to drug possession and distribution conspiracy; in 2017, she was sentenced to 108 months' imprisonment. She is confined at FPC Alderson, with a projected release date of November 2024. Elias filed a…

United States v. Jackson  
Date: January 5, 2021
 Docket Numbers: 18-5676, 18-6003

Justia Opinion Summary: Jackson and Combs pleaded guilty to participating in a cocaine distribution ring. Both received elevated sentences. Jackson was sentenced to 192 months’ imprisonment due to his role as a leader in the drug-distribution…

United States v. Peter Combs
Date: January 5, 2021
 Docket Number: 18-6003
Little Caesar Enters. v. Little Caesars ASF Corp.
Date: January 5, 2021
 Docket Number: 19-2335
United States v. Troy Baker
Date: January 5, 2021
 Docket Number: 19-3673
EPLET, LLC v. DTE Pontiac North, LLC  
Date: January 5, 2021
 Docket Number: 20-1434

Justia Opinion Summary: In 2007, GM sold a power plant to DTEPN, which leased the land under the plant for 10 years. DTEPN agreed to sell utilities produced at the plant to GM, to maintain the plant according to specific criteria, and to…

James Kost v. Hon. Suzanne Hoseth Kreeger
Date: January 5, 2021
 Docket Number: 20-1455
Gilberto Gil-Cerqueda v. Jeffrey Rosen
Date: January 5, 2021
 Docket Number: 20-3396
Jones Onwenu v. Joseph Bacigal
Date: January 4, 2021
 Docket Number: 19-2431
Paul Fullerton v. FAA
Date: January 4, 2021
 Docket Number: 20-3402
CHKRS, LLC v. City of Dublin, Ohio  
Date: January 4, 2021
 Docket Number: 20-3435

Justia Opinion Summary: CHKRS leased Friedman’s property and paid $8,500 for an option to purchase by giving 30 days’ notice. With respect to eminent-domain, the lease stated that any money from the City of Dublin was payable to Friedman “until…

United States v. Mitchell Overby
Date: January 4, 2021
 Docket Number: 20-5172

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