Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals News

Serial killer John Fautenberry lost another bid to halt his execution next week when an appeals court Friday said he was not entitled to state money for neurological tests.

A federal appeals court has turned down a Kentucky coal miner's effort to force the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration to write tougher limits on coal dust that causes black lung.

A federal appellate court upheld today the fraud conviction and 171 2 year prison term for former Grosse Pointe fashion designer Ilene Moses.

In answering two certified questions from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit, the Ohio State Supreme Court on July 1 declared that a state law regulating the use of mifepristone -- which is used in medication abortion -- bars physicians from prescribing it for off-label use, BNA reports.

Today in Harbison v. Little , No. 07-6225 , a Sixth Circuit panel declares that Tennessee's lethal injection protocol is constitutionally sound.

The Ohio Supreme Court decided two abortion cases yesterday. In the first, Roe v. Planned Parenthood Southwest Region , it was held that the parents of a teenager who had had an abortion at a clinic were not entitled to abuse reports or medical records kept by the clinic of other minors treated there.

A federal appeals court on Thursday overturned a lower court's finding that Tennessee's lethal injection procedure is unconstitutional.

NASHVILLE a ' A federal appeals court has vacated a lower court's ruling that Tennessee's lethal injection process is unconstitutional.

A man who courts have determined was wrongfully convicted of a 1990 rape can't sue the woman who accused him of committing the crime, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday.

TOLEDO -- The Ohio Sixth District Court of Appeals has upheld the conviction of a Danbury Township man who received a 96-year prison sentence after he was found guilty of giving drugs to a 13-year-old girl and raping her.

Jeff and Sandee Winkelman chose a private education over the Parma schools for their autistic son, and the U.S. Supreme Court has left them stuck with the bill.

Local accountant Herb Blackburn has testified in enough divorce cases to know how ugly they can get.

In a decision that could affect a case from Pike County, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled yesterday that school officials cannot strip-search students unless the safety of students is at stake.

Police are looking for the man they say carjacked and sexually assaulted a woman Monday afternoon.

Attorneys for Donna Moonda, in prison for planning her husband's murder by tempting her lover with her spouse's millions, will be trying to get the former housewife's conviction overturned.

A state appeals court judge from Toledo has died. Judge William Skow died Sunday of pancreatitis.

Thompson's latest book, "A Matter of Black Transformation," deals with Blacks, China and globalization.

The eyes of the world are on Cincinnati this weekend as Major League Baseball holds its annual Civil Rights Game in the Queen City.

The Northern Ohio Violent Fugitive Task Force arrested a Columbia Township man on a Mexican arrest warrant Tuesday that accuses him of molesting a teenage girl four years ago.

Federal prosecutors may seize $30 million and three bank accounts from a pair of Kentucky lawyers convicted of bilking clients in a diet-drug settlement, a judge says.