2024 Sixth Circuit US Court of Appeals Case Law
Date: May 7, 2024
Docket Number: 21-3753
Justia Opinion Summary: Calvin Caver was sentenced to life imprisonment for conspiring to distribute more than 50 grams of crack cocaine, having committed three prior felony drug offenses. The Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 later increased the…
Date: May 7, 2024
Docket Number: 22-6118
Justia Opinion Summary: The case involves StarLink Logistics, Inc. ("StarLink") and ACC, LLC ("ACC"). StarLink owns land adjacent to and downstream from ACC's land, where ACC used to operate a landfill for byproducts of aluminum recycling.…
Date: May 6, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1718
Justia Opinion Summary: The case involves the family of Todd Kerchen, who died from a lethal dose of fentanyl. The family filed a complaint against the University of Michigan and Dr. James Woods, alleging violations under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and…
Date: May 2, 2024
Docket Number: 22-3036
Justia Opinion Summary: Thabet Mahdi Saleh, an Iraqi refugee, was granted asylum in the United States in 2010. However, after being convicted of crimes under Michigan law, the Department of Homeland Security initiated removal proceedings…
Date: May 2, 2024
Docket Number: 23-5750
Justia Opinion Summary: The case involves a group of bettors who sued Churchill Downs, Inc., and trainers Robert Baffert and Bob Baffert Racing, Inc., after the horse they bet on, Medina Spirit, was disqualified from the 2021 Kentucky Derby due…
Date: May 1, 2024
Docket Number: 23-3334
Justia Opinion Summary: The case involves Terrence Jordan and Damara Sanders, who were pulled over by a state trooper for speeding. During the stop, the trooper noticed inconsistencies in their travel plans and observed Jordan's heavy…
Date: April 30, 2024
Docket Number: 22-3797
Justia Opinion Summary: The case involves Carlos Brown, a defendant who was indicted on fraud and identity theft charges related to a credit card scheme. Brown argued that his right to a speedy trial, as stipulated by the Speedy Trial Act, was…
Date: April 30, 2024
Docket Number: 23-3004
Justia Opinion Summary: The case involves Jose Yanel Sanchez-Perez, a native and citizen of El Salvador, who entered the United States in 1998. In 2009, Sanchez-Perez pleaded guilty to committing misdemeanor domestic assault under Tennessee…
Date: April 29, 2024
Docket Number: 23-3296
Justia Opinion Summary: This case involves a lawsuit filed by the family of Bill Heeter against Officer Kenneth Bowers and the Columbus Police Department. The family alleges that Officer Bowers used excessive force and violated Mr. Heeter's…
Date: April 29, 2024
Docket Number: 23-3392
Justia Opinion Summary: The case involves a technology company, Root Inc., which sought to disrupt the traditional car insurance market. The plaintiff, Plumber’s Local 290 Pension Trust Fund, invested in Root around the time of its initial…
Date: April 29, 2024
Docket Number: 23-3423
Date: April 29, 2024
Docket Number: 23-3530
Justia Opinion Summary: The case involves Karen Frohn, who applied for and received a life insurance policy from Globe Life and Accident Insurance Company on behalf of her husband, Greg Frohn. After Greg's death, Karen submitted a claim for…
Date: April 26, 2024
Docket Number: 23-3466
Justia Opinion Summary: Tyren Cervenak pleaded guilty to two counts of distributing crack cocaine and one count of possessing a firearm and ammunition as a convicted felon. Prior to this, Cervenak had been convicted of numerous crimes in Ohio…
Date: April 19, 2024
Docket Number: 23-3623
Justia Opinion Summary: The case involves Norton Outdoor Advertising, a company that operates billboards within the Village of St. Bernard, Ohio. The Village revoked one of Norton's permits after it constructed two variable-message signs. The…
Date: April 17, 2024
Docket Number: 22-5245
Justia Opinion Summary: The case involves Katrina Robinson, founder and director of The Healthcare Institute (THI), a for-profit company in Memphis, Tennessee, that provided certified nursing assistant training. THI received a federal grant…
Date: April 17, 2024
Docket Number: 22-5761
Justia Opinion Summary: The case involves Dr. Euna McGruder, who was terminated from her position as the Executive Officer of Priority Schools for the Nashville public school system, operated by Metro Nashville, after she investigated…
Date: April 17, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1466
Justia Opinion Summary: The case involves Keeley Hamilton, who applied for disability insurance benefits and supplemental security income from the Social Security Administration (SSA) due to her physical impairments. An administrative law judge…
Date: April 17, 2024
Docket Number: 23-3179
Justia Opinion Summary: The case revolves around Joshua Aldridge, who was found guilty of conspiracy to sex traffic an adult by force, threats of force, fraud, or coercion, among other charges. Aldridge and his girlfriend, Kathy, were both…
Date: April 16, 2024
Docket Number: 21-2968
Justia Opinion Summary: The case involves Carl Hubbard, who was convicted of first-degree murder in Michigan state court in 1992. Over two decades later, Hubbard filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in the United States District Court…
Date: April 16, 2024
Docket Number: 22-5884
Date: April 16, 2024
Docket Number: 22-5912
Date: April 16, 2024
Docket Number: 22-6077
Justia Opinion Summary: Travis Lester, a convicted felon, was arrested and charged with possession of a firearm after law enforcement officers found a stolen .40 caliber pistol in his motel room. The arrest occurred after Lester violated the…
Date: April 15, 2024
Docket Number: 22-1963
Justia Opinion Summary: The case involves Hattie Tanner, who was convicted of murder and served seventeen years in prison before her conviction was set aside due to insufficient evidentiary support. After her release, Tanner filed a lawsuit…
Date: April 15, 2024
Docket Number: 22-1990
Justia Opinion Summary: The case involves Kamel Chaney-Snell, who was arrested by Deputy Andrew Young and Officer Andrew Teichow during a search of his girlfriend's house. Chaney-Snell claimed that after he peacefully surrendered, Young punched…
Date: April 12, 2024
Docket Number: 23-3085
Justia Opinion Summary: The case involves a dispute between Firexo Group Limited (FGL), a British company that manufactures fire extinguishers, and Firexo, Inc., a Florida-based company that was created to sell FGL's products in the United…
Date: April 11, 2024
Docket Number: 22-3743
Justia Opinion Summary: The case involves Walid Abdulahad, an Iraqi national who sought review of the Board of Immigration Appeals' (BIA) denial of his motion to reopen his removal proceedings based on changed country conditions in Iraq.…
Date: April 11, 2024
Docket Number: 22-6054
Justia Opinion Summary: Sedric Ward, an Army reservist, worked at the Shelby County Jail. In 2015, the County fired Ward but later entered into a settlement agreement in which Ward released “any and all claims whatsoever” related to his…
Date: April 10, 2024
Docket Number: 22-1432
Justia Opinion Summary: The case revolves around Gregory Rogers, who was convicted of various drug and firearm-related crimes. The evidence leading to his conviction was obtained from his girlfriend's car, where he was found alone in the…
Date: April 10, 2024
Docket Number: 23-3638
Justia Opinion Summary: The case involves Dennis Neate, a former employee of the James B. Oswald Company (Oswald), an insurance firm. Neate left Oswald to work for Hylant Group, Inc., another insurance firm, and some of his clients followed…
Date: April 10, 2024
Docket Number: 23-5410
Justia Opinion Summary: The case revolves around the death of Darius Caraway, who overdosed while serving a murder sentence at Whiteville Correctional Facility in Tennessee, operated by CoreCivic, Inc. Caraway's estate, represented by his…
Date: April 9, 2024
Docket Number: 23-3910
Justia Opinion Summary: The plaintiffs, Reverend Kenneth Simon, Reverend Lewis W. Macklin, II, and Helen Youngblood, collectively known as the "Simon Parties," filed a lawsuit against the Ohio Redistricting Commission and several of its…
Date: April 8, 2024
Docket Number: 21-6214
Justia Opinion Summary: The case involves two separate appeals by Brian Witham and Michael Savage, both of whom pleaded guilty to various federal crimes, including one count each of using, carrying, and brandishing a firearm in relation to a…
Date: April 8, 2024
Docket Number: 23-3577
Justia Opinion Summary: The case involves two separate appeals by Brian Witham and Michael Savage, who pleaded guilty to various federal crimes, including using a firearm during a crime of violence. Both appellants later sought to vacate their…
Date: April 4, 2024
Docket Number: 23-5543
Justia Opinion Summary: The case involves Century Aluminum Company and its subsidiaries (Century), and Certain Underwriters at Lloyd's, London (Lloyd's). Century uses river barges to transport alumina ore and other materials for its aluminum…
Date: April 3, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1591
Justia Opinion Summary: This case pertains to an alleged copyright infringement involving software code used in an industrial control system. The plaintiffs, RJ Control Consultants, Inc. and its sole shareholder, Paul Rogers, appealed the…
Date: April 3, 2024
Docket Number: 23-3217
Justia Opinion Summary: In this case, a taxi driver, Lufti Said Saalim, sued Walmart and several individuals, including deputy sheriffs, alleging violations of his Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment rights and state law claims following an…
Date: April 2, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1826
Justia Opinion Summary: In this case, James R. Fouts, the former mayor of Warren, Michigan, brought a lawsuit against defendants including the Warren City Council and the City Election Commission. He claimed that they violated his First, Fifth,…
Date: April 2, 2024
Docket Number: 23-5568
Justia Opinion Summary: The case involves a truck driver, Frank McKenna, who sued his former employer, Dillon Transportation, LLC, for defamation based on a report Dillon sent to HireRight, a consumer reporting agency. The report claimed…
Date: April 1, 2024
Docket Number: 22-5931
Justia Opinion Summary: In the case before the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, the defendant, Jyoti Agrawal, was convicted of three financial crimes. Agrawal had obtained over $1.5 million in federal and state grants to…
Date: April 1, 2024
Docket Number: 23-5456
Justia Opinion Summary: FedEx Ground Package Systems, Inc. (FXG) filed a lawsuit against Route Consultant, Inc., alleging that the latter company had made nine false or misleading statements about FXG's business practices. FXG contended that…
Date: March 29, 2024
Docket Number: 23-3357
Justia Opinion Summary: A medical malpractice lawsuit was filed by Dwan and Aaron Bray, individually and on behalf of their minor child, against Dr. Timothy J. Thress and various other medical entities. The suit, which was initially filed in…
Date: March 28, 2024
Docket Number: 22-1705
Justia Opinion Summary: In the case under review, the appellant, Lafayette Deshawn Upshaw, was convicted of crimes associated with two separate incidents occurring on the same day: a gas station robbery and a home invasion. Following exhaustion…
Date: March 28, 2024
Docket Number: 22-2038
Justia Opinion Summary: In a case before the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, Thurman King sued Officers Zachary Abbate and Jason Bradley, the City of Rockford, the Rockford Public Safety Department, and other municipal…
Date: March 28, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1632
Justia Opinion Summary: The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled in a case involving Bannum Place of Saginaw, LLC and Bannum, Inc., affiliates offering reentry services for formerly incarcerated individuals. After Bannum…
Date: March 28, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1695
Justia Opinion Summary: In the case between the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and Bannum Place of Saginaw, LLC and Bannum, Inc., the court ruled in favor of the NLRB. Bannum Place of Saginaw, a provider of reentry services for…
Date: March 27, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1507
Justia Opinion Summary: In this case, the plaintiff, Jason Schwebke, brought a lawsuit against his employer, United Wholesale Mortgage (UWM), alleging disability discrimination under state and federal law. Schwebke, who is deaf, claimed that…
Date: March 26, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1719
Justia Opinion Summary: The court case involves Ferrellgas, L.P., which was appealing against an order enforcing a subpoena issued by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). The subpoena was part of an EEOC investigation into a…
Date: March 22, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1739
Justia Opinion Summary: In this case, the plaintiff, Kellie Farris, called 911 alleging that another woman had damaged her car. However, responding sheriff's deputies ended up arresting Farris instead. Farris alleged that during her arrest and…
Date: March 21, 2024
Docket Number: 23-3475
Justia Opinion Summary: A medical resident, Dr. Jacquelyn Mares, was dismissed from Wright State University’s (WSU) obstetrics and gynecology residency program due to ongoing complaints and escalating disciplinary actions related to her…
Date: March 20, 2024
Docket Number: 23-3606
Justia Opinion Summary: Sandra Sabastian-Andres, an indigenous Mayan Akateko woman from Guatemala, appealed the Board of Immigration Appeals' affirmation of the Immigration Judge's decision to deny her claims for asylum, withholding of removal,…
Date: March 20, 2024
Docket Number: 23-3672
Justia Opinion Summary: In this case, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit was presented with an appeal involving an Ohio hospital's mandate for its employees to get COVID-19 vaccines. The plaintiffs, a group of current and…
Date: March 19, 2024
Docket Number: 22-1298
Justia Opinion Summary: In this case, a prisoner, Kyle Brandon Richards, appealed a district court's decision to dismiss his civil rights suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The lawsuit was dismissed because Richards reportedly failed to exhaust his…
Date: March 18, 2024
Docket Number: 22-5459
Justia Opinion Summary: The case involved Ricardo Alvarado, who was convicted of possessing a firearm as a felon under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1). His crime was reported by officers who responded to a call that a man was carrying what appeared to be…
Date: March 18, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1777
Justia Opinion Summary: The plaintiff, Tillman Transportation, LLC, and the defendant, MI Business, Inc. (operating as affiliate companies RDT and RDF) entered into three trucking contracts, each of which included arbitration clauses. After the…
Date: March 18, 2024
Docket Number: 23-5229
Justia Opinion Summary: The plaintiff, Ilya Kovalchuk, was driving his vehicle when off-duty police officer Matthew Ward began driving erratically behind him, ordered him to pull over, and held Kovalchuk at gunpoint without any justification.…
Date: March 15, 2024
Docket Number: 21-3344
Justia Opinion Summary: Gloris Sarai Vasquez-Rivera, a native and citizen of El Salvador, entered the United States without authorization in 2014, at the age of nine. She was served with a notice to appear in removal proceedings and charged as…
Date: March 15, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1474
Justia Opinion Summary: The case revolves around an appeal by Karnail Singh, who was charged with using a fraudulently procured passport and making false statements to immigration officials. Singh pleaded guilty to using a fraudulently procured…
Date: March 14, 2024
Docket Number: 23-3330
Justia Opinion Summary: In the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, Alison Kareem brought a case against the Ohio Secretary of State, the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections, and the Cuyahoga County Prosecuting Attorney. Kareem…
Date: March 12, 2024
Docket Number: 22-2119
Justia Opinion Summary: In this consolidated appeal involving two cases from the Western District of Michigan and the Southern District of Ohio, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled on how pizza-delivery drivers should…
Date: March 12, 2024
Docket Number: 22-3561
Justia Opinion Summary: This case involves two consolidated appeals from the Western District of Michigan and the Southern District of Ohio. The dispute revolves around how pizza delivery drivers should be reimbursed for the cost of using their…
Date: March 12, 2024
Docket Number: 22-5746
Justia Opinion Summary: In this case, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit considered an appeal by Herbert Marsh, who was convicted of various charges related to a robbery of a Nashville pawn shop. Marsh and two…
Date: March 12, 2024
Docket Number: 23-3189
Justia Opinion Summary: Timothy Jaimez was found guilty of federal drug charges and sentenced to supervised release. Following several violations of the terms of his release, the district court sentenced him to sixty months' imprisonment.…
Date: March 11, 2024
Docket Number: 23-3078
Justia Opinion Summary: In this case adjudicated by the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, Fred Golson, Jr. had pleaded guilty to two counts of being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition. The district court added…
Date: March 6, 2024
Docket Number: 23-3247
Justia Opinion Summary: This case concerns a dispute involving the Producers Service Corporation (PSC), an oilfield services company, and several of its current and former employees. The employees alleged that PSC failed to pay them a lawful…
Date: March 5, 2024
Docket Number: 22-1409
Justia Opinion Summary: In the case before the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company ("State Farm") brought a lawsuit against Michael Angelo, alleging violations of the Racketeer…
Date: March 5, 2024
Docket Number: 22-6048
Justia Opinion Summary: In November 2018, Marlon Johnson was arrested after a vehicle he was driving crashed during a police pursuit. The police found over 1,000 grams of pure methamphetamine and a loaded semiautomatic pistol in the vehicle. A…
Date: March 5, 2024
Docket Number: 23-3142
Justia Opinion Summary: The case revolves around a plaintiff, Jorden Brown, who was tasered by Officer Samuel Giles while fleeing from police, resulting in injuries to Brown. Brown sued Officer Giles, the police chief, and the municipality he…
Date: March 4, 2024
Docket Number: 23-3664
Justia Opinion Summary: A former restaurant owner from Mexico, Alma Reyes Galeana, and her three daughters sought asylum and withholding of removal in the United States after fleeing violent threats from gangs in Mexico. Reyes Galeana claimed…
Date: February 29, 2024
Docket Number: 22-3793
Justia Opinion Summary: In this case before the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, the defendant, Charles O’Neill, appealed the judgment of the district court. O’Neill was charged with sexually exploiting a minor and…
Date: February 29, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1259
Justia Opinion Summary: In this case, DeShawn Anderson-Santos, a juvenile detainee at the Kent County Juvenile Detention Center, claimed he suffered a head injury after being pushed by corrections officer Derek Leshan. Anderson-Santos filed a…
Date: February 29, 2024
Docket Number: 23-3047
Date: February 29, 2024
Docket Number: 23-3445
Date: February 28, 2024
Docket Number: 23-8004
Justia Opinion Summary: Insight Terminal Solutions, LLC ("ITS") appealed against a decision by the Bankruptcy Appellate Panel of the Sixth Circuit. The dispute centered on a claim originally filed by Cecelia Financial Management, LLC…
Date: February 27, 2024
Docket Number: 23-5141
Justia Opinion Summary: In the case before the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, the defendant, Bryce Axline, appealed the 65-month sentence imposed by the district court following his guilty plea to charges of vehicular…
Date: February 26, 2024
Docket Number: 22-4037
Justia Opinion Summary: In this case, Norfolk Southern Railway Company and Dille Road Recycling, LLC disputed over a narrow parcel of land adjacent to Norfolk’s active rail line in Euclid, Ohio. Although Norfolk owned the land, Dille had been…
Date: February 26, 2024
Docket Number: 23-3394
Justia Opinion Summary: In a case before the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, Premier Dealer Services, a developer and administrator of automobile dealers’ aftermarket products, sued Allegiance Administrators for infringing…
Date: February 22, 2024
Docket Number: 22-2080
Justia Opinion Summary: Zachariah Histed pleaded guilty to possessing methamphetamine with intent to distribute. The District Court for the Western District of Michigan sentenced him to 300 months' imprisonment. Histed appealed his sentence on…
Date: February 22, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1028
Justia Opinion Summary: In this case heard by the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, the plaintiff, Marketing Displays International (MDI), sued the defendant, Brianna Shaw, for allegedly violating her one-year non-compete…
Date: February 20, 2024
Docket Number: 22-4052
Justia Opinion Summary: In 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit examined whether a conviction for aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon under Ohio law could be considered a "crime of violence" under the federal…
Date: February 20, 2024
Docket Number: 22-6040
Date: February 16, 2024
Docket Number: 22-5898
Justia Opinion Summary: In July 2018, Brian Lawler, a pretrial detainee, committed suicide at a county jail in Hardeman County, Tennessee. Lawler's father, Jerry Lawler, brought a lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging that the officers had…
Date: February 15, 2024
Docket Number: 22-6004
Justia Opinion Summary: In a case heard before the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, plaintiff Jeffrey Hughes, an inmate in a Tennessee state prison, sued the Tennessee Board of Parole, alleging that the Board's refusal to…
Date: February 15, 2024
Docket Number: 23-5397
Justia Opinion Summary: In this case, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit was faced with the claims of Cameron Cooper, an employee with Tourette Syndrome, who sued his former employer, Coca-Cola Consolidated, Inc. (CCCI),…
Date: February 14, 2024
Docket Number: 22-2158
Justia Opinion Summary: The case involved defendant Antwaun Allen who was found guilty of possessing methamphetamine with the intent to distribute. The defendant had been involved in a police sting operation where he sold methamphetamine to a…
Date: February 13, 2024
Docket Number: 22-6078
Justia Opinion Summary: In a multi-district litigation involving diabetes drug saxagliptin, the plaintiffs claimed that the drug caused their heart failure. They presented a single expert to show the drug could cause heart failure. After a…
Date: February 9, 2024
Docket Number: 22-1650
Justia Opinion Summary: The case involves Deaunta Belcher who was convicted and sentenced to life in prison for his participation in a murder-for-hire scheme, hindering the investigation of a federal offense, and two other offenses. Belcher…
Date: February 9, 2024
Docket Number: 23-5867
Justia Opinion Summary: The case involves Indian citizens Sanket and Nehaben Patel who sued the Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Ur Jaddou, under the Administrative Procedure Act for unreasonable delay in processing their…
Date: February 8, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1372
Justia Opinion Summary: In a case heard by the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, plaintiffs Mark Bambach and his minor children sued defendants Gina Moegle and Susan Shaw, employees of Michigan's Children’s Protective…
Date: February 8, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1481
Justia Opinion Summary: The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled in favor of the United States in a case involving civil penalties for failure to file a Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBAR). The defendant,…
Date: February 8, 2024
Docket Number: 23-5126
Justia Opinion Summary: In the case heard by the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, the defendant, Robert Whipple, appealed the denial of his motions to suppress evidence. Whipple was charged with bank robbery for three…
Date: February 8, 2024
Docket Number: 23-5476
Justia Opinion Summary: In this case, Autumn Wind Lending, LLC (Autumn Wind) had lent money to Insight Terminal Solutions, LLC (Insight) under an agreement that Insight would not incur any further debt without Autumn Wind's consent. However,…
Date: February 7, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1145
Justia Opinion Summary: Stephen Caudle, a truck driver for Hard Drive Express, Inc., sued his employer alleging that he was fired in retaliation for attempting to report unlawful employment practices. The case focuses on the Fair Labor…
Date: February 6, 2024
Docket Number: 22-5469
Justia Opinion Summary: The United States Court of Appeals considered an indemnification case between Nissan, an automobile manufacturer, and Continental, a brake parts supplier. Nissan sought indemnification from Continental for a $24 million…
Date: February 2, 2024
Docket Number: 22-3889
Justia Opinion Summary: In the case before the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, the defendant, Phillip Cabbage, was convicted for conspiracy and possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance. Cabbage had been…
Date: January 31, 2024
Docket Number: 22-2041
Justia Opinion Summary: The case involves Jason Kechego, an inmate at a federal detention center in Michigan, who was convicted of second-degree murder for killing fellow inmate Christian Maire. Kechego appealed against several of the district…
Date: January 30, 2024
Docket Number: 22-3818
Date: January 30, 2024
Docket Number: 23-5557
Justia Opinion Summary: Chinyere Ogbonna-McGruder, an African American professor, alleged that her employer, Austin Peay State University (APSU), and her supervisors engaged in racial discrimination and created a hostile work environment, and…
Date: January 26, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1538
Date: January 26, 2024
Docket Number: 23-5383
Date: January 24, 2024
Docket Number: 23-3350
Justia Opinion Summary: The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit denied the petition for review filed by Kingsley Owusu, who was seeking asylum and withholding of removal from the United States. Owusu, originally from Ghana,…
Date: January 23, 2024
Docket Number: 22-5496
Justia Opinion Summary: In August 2020, a joint federal task force between the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) and the Cincinnati Police Department (CPD) attempted to arrest Mason Meyer. While fleeing from CPD…
Date: January 23, 2024
Docket Number: 23-5082
Justia Opinion Summary: In Chattanooga, Tennessee, Al Dorsey celebrated New Year's Eve by firing a gun into the air. This action was recorded by nearby cameras, and the police were dispatched. Dorsey was detained and found in possession of a…
Date: January 22, 2024
Docket Number: 23-3406
Date: January 22, 2024
Docket Number: 23-5374
Justia Opinion Summary: The United States Court of Appeals affirmed a district court's grant of summary judgment in favor of Adroit Medical Systems, Inc., Grazyna Gammons, Kelley Patten, and Gene Gammons. The plaintiff, Scott Gammons, alleged…
Date: January 22, 2024
Docket Number: 23-5527
Justia Opinion Summary: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit affirmed a district court decision in a medical malpractice case where the plaintiff's mother died in a nursing home. The plaintiff, Chappelle Gales, alleged that her…
Date: January 18, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1246
Justia Opinion Summary: In the case before the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, Leslie Fisher sued officers Randall Jordan, Matthew Rice, and John Trefelet of the Michigan State Police for violating federal and state law by…
Date: January 16, 2024
Docket Number: 22-3204
Justia Opinion Summary: In a dispute between Ultra Bond, Inc., and its owner, Richard Campfield (collectively "Ultra Bond"), and Safelite Group, Inc. and its affiliates (collectively "Safelite"), both parties operate in the vehicle glass repair…
Date: January 10, 2024
Docket Number: 23-5369
Justia Opinion Summary: In the case before the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, Brandenburg Telephone Company and Sprint Communications were in disagreement over the interest rate on an award that Sprint Communications…
Date: January 9, 2024
Docket Number: 23-5189
Justia Opinion Summary: In this case, Timmy Mosier, a man arrested for public intoxication, brought federal civil rights and state tort claims against Officer Joseph Evans and Crockett County, Tennessee. Mosier alleged that Officer Evans used…
Date: January 8, 2024
Docket Number: 22-3835
Justia Opinion Summary: In the case before the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, the defendant, Thomas O’Lear, was convicted of healthcare fraud, making a false statement in connection with healthcare services, and…
Date: January 5, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1230
Justia Opinion Summary: The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit affirmed the district court's denial of Brian Behovitz's motion to intervene in a class action lawsuit initiated by Frederick Grainger, Jr. against Ottawa County,…
Date: January 4, 2024
Docket Number: 23-1262
Justia Opinion Summary: In this case, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit affirmed the lower court's decision that the motion to intervene by Local Roots Cannabis Company (Local Roots) was moot due to a settlement between…
Date: January 3, 2024
Docket Number: 22-3778
Justia Opinion Summary: The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit considered whether a debtor who successfully defended a motion to dismiss her bankruptcy petition filed by the United States Trustee was entitled to attorneys'…
Date: January 3, 2024
Docket Number: 22-5794
Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff-Appellant Joseph Brent Mattingly, an employee of R.J. Corman Railroad Services, LLC (“Corman Services”), suffered injuries while repairing a bridge owned and operated by Memphis Line Railroad (“Memphis Line”).…
Date: January 2, 2024
Docket Number: 22-6019
Justia Opinion Summary: In March 2015, Jere Hinman hired BrightView Landscape Development, Inc., to design and construct a pool at her residence. BrightView subcontracted with Georgia Gunite and Pool Company, Inc., to install plumbing and spray…
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