A Sixth Circuit panel reversed lower courts Wednesday and held that a Michigan property tax foreclosure transfer was preferential under the Bankruptcy Code because the county treasurer would receive a 5% sales commission at a tax sale — more than he would...
The Sixth Circuit ruled that a Detroit detective’s federal civil rights lawsuit for withholding exculpatory evidence was not barred by the Heck doctrine, because a state court’s vacatur of the plaintiff’s murder conviction was valid even if its procedural...
The 6th Circuit affirmed summary judgment for a school district that denied a blind and deaf teacher’s request for paid sick leave to train with a guide dog, ruling the employer had discretion to choose unpaid leave as a reasonable accommodation under the...
The Sixth Circuit held that Kentucky’s judicial conduct rules prohibiting candidates from identifying as party nominees or using certain partisan endorsements violate the First Amendment as applied to two former candidates, but reversed a lower court’s...
DETROIT (LN) — The Sixth Circuit held that noncitizens living in the U.S. interior without lawful status are not subject to mandatory detention under 8 U.S.C. § 1225(b)(2)(A) and are entitled to individualized bond hearings under 8 U.S.C. § 1226, joining...
A man held in a rural Upper Peninsula jail hanged himself with an electric fan cord four days after his arrest, but his repeated denials of suicidal feelings defeated his estate's civil rights claims.
A divided panel split over whether a child's halting, one-word answers in a closed-door interview were enough to invoke the Hague Convention's narrow age-and-maturity exception.
A Sixth Circuit panel held that the Tennessee Valley Authority's mid-litigation release of documents was a voluntary agency choice — not a third-party-driven act — making a watchdog group eligible for attorneys' fees under FOIA's fee-shifting provision.
A federal appeals court shielded three police officers from liability after they shot and killed a man who drove a van toward them during a burglary investigation.
A Supreme Court ruling on asylum review earlier this year gave the Sixth Circuit the hook it needed to resolve a question it had previously declined to answer.
A Guatemalan asylum seeker's late-filed petition gave the Sixth Circuit its first chance to resolve a tolling question the Supreme Court left open in Riley v. Bondi.
The Sixth Circuit, sitting en banc, on Friday reversed class certification for roughly 90,000 Tennessee State Farm customers challenging the insurer's "typical negotiation" adjustment for totaled vehicles, holding that individualized fair-market-value...
The Sixth Circuit affirmed the denial of qualified immunity for a deputy who shot an unarmed, mentally ill man, holding that his right not to be shot under such circumstances was clearly established.
The Sixth Circuit affirmed the denial of habeas corpus for Phillip L. Jones, an Ohio prisoner on death row for the 2007 killing of Susan Yates, whose body was found at Mount Peace Cemetery in Akron.
A published Sixth Circuit ruling holds that an Oklahoma debt-collection law firm purposefully availed itself of Michigan by garnishing the wages of a Michigan employee, reversing a dismissal for lack of personal jurisdiction.
The Sixth Circuit reversed a district court’s dismissal of a constitutional challenge to the federal ban on home distilling, holding that the prohibition is a necessary and proper means of collecting federal excise taxes on distilled spirits.
The Sixth Circuit vacated a district court order allowing discovery to proceed before ruling on a police officer’s qualified immunity motion, holding that such a deferral is only permissible if the court first finds a genuine dispute of material fact.
The Sixth Circuit has vacated the denial of a motion to withdraw a guilty plea in United States v. Christen Clark, remanding the case for an evidentiary hearing on claims of ineffective assistance of counsel.
A unanimous three-judge panel of the Sixth Circuit upheld a 212-month prison sentence for Moreno Lee Jackson, ruling that he waived his right to challenge the Armed Career Criminal Act enhancement that added years to his term. Circuit Judge Alice Batchelder...
The Sixth Circuit affirmed summary judgment for First American Title Insurance Company, ruling that a title insurer had no duty to defend its insured, Triple Properties Detroit, LLC, against a lawsuit brought by a buyer whose title had reverted to a...