Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals News Archives

The University of Michigan has dropped an appeal of a $1.7 million verdict and agreed to settle a lawsuit with a former dental student who convinced a jury that she was illegally kicked out of school.

The Ohio attorney general has filed a motion with the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals that seeks to lift a stay on the Dec.

A deadlock by a federal appeals court over a key legal challenge to the No Child Left Behind Act means that a lower court's dismissal of the case still stands.

From a release : Alliance for Justice has prepared a report on the record of Jane Stranch, President Obamaa s nominee to the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals.

The U.S. Department of Labor has asked a federal court in Memphis to enforce a judgment of $459,658 against Tasty Buffet and Tasty China Buffet.

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A state law designed to protect children from "obscene or harmful" material on the Internet is vague enough that it tramples on the rights of adults to view the same content, a trade group of booksellers argued to the Ohio Supreme Court yesterday.

WASHINGTON - Nashville attorney Jane Branstetter Stranch easily made it through her confirmation hearing today on her nomination to become a U.S. Circuit Court Judge for the Sixth Circuit.

Booksellers, video game dealers, newspaper publishers and other critics of an online child protection law encountered skepticism from state Supreme Court justices Tuesday for their free-speech arguments.

A lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Education brought by nine school districts claiming the federal government doesn't pay for mandated educational requirements - including seven in Vermont - has hit a roadblock.

An attorney for two Kentucky counties says courthouse displays of the Ten Commandments are for educational and historical purposes.

The Ohio Supreme Court hears arguments Tuesday in a case that pits defenders of online child protection against advocates of free speech.

A federal appeals court deadlocked over a key legal challenge to the No Child Left Behind Act, resulting in the affirmance of a lower court's dismissal of the case.

A federal appeals court has tossed out an Ohio man's conviction for failing to update his registration as a sex offender.

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A lawyer says a dispute involving school districts, teacher unions and the federal No Child Left Behind law has ended in an 8-8 tie at a federal appeals court.

If a co-conspirator in a bank robbery is accidentally killed in a car crash that occurs while attempting to flee from police, does federal law mandate life sentences for those convicted of the offense? A divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit issued this interesting decision today.

The family of an Army veteran who claims the government failed to diagnose an illness that spread to his wife and two children lost the case Thursday at a federal appeals court, ending five years of litigation.

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Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor is serving as a visiting judge this week on the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati.

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Anyone who thought former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor would go quietly into retirement didn't see her in action Tuesday in Cincinnati.

The Supreme Court seemed receptive Tuesday to reinstating the death sentence of a flamboyant neo-Nazi convicted of murdering three men in Ohio more than a quarter century ago.

This morning, in United States v. Cain , the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit split over whether a sex offender convicted prior to the enactment of the federal Sexual Offenders Registration and Notification Act was required to update his sex offender registration before theA Attorney General adopted regulations implementing the law's ...

Today the Sixth Circuit handed down a case on probable cause to search a home based in large part on a subscription to a child pornography website: United States v. Frechette .

Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray will appear before the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to urge the re-instatement of the death penalty against Frank Spisak, who was convicted in 1983 of murdering three people at Cleveland State University.

A Rochester woman in prison for conspiring to export telecommunications and other equipment to Iraq before the fall of Saddam Hussein is appealing her conviction, sentence and denial of a motion for a new trial.

Ohio will examine its procedures for lethal injection. How about looking fully at its flawed conduct of the death penalty? Published on Thursday, Oct 08, 2009 R ecall the unprecedented step taken by Ohio last month in halting the execution of Romell Broom: Never before in the modern era of capital punishment had a state abandoned an execution after ...

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An appeals court found Thursday there was probable cause to search a Michigan man's computer for child pornography even though his subscription to a Web site had expired more than a year earlier.

The botched execution of Romell Broom causes Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland to put executions on hold, the latest in a string of challenges to capital punishment.

Ibrahim Parlak is a Kurd who was born and raised in southeastern Turkey. As a young man, he became active in the Kurdish human rights movement both in Turkey and Europe.

Ohio is considering administering lethal drugs into inmates' bone marrow or muscles as an alternative to - or a backup for - the traditional intravenous execution procedure, a prisons department spokeswoman said Tuesday."Everything is on the table" as the state researches ways to adjust its death chamber procedure in the wake of a failed execution ...

Faced with the prospect of an election challenge from one of his deputies, Sheriff Paul Parsley of Bullitt County, Ky., fired him for trying "to take my job away from me." The Supreme Court declined Monday to consider whether the dismissal violated the deputy's civil rights.

A federal appeals court on Monday halted the execution of an inmate three weeks after problems with a lethal injection attempt.

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SHELBY -- City Council members are split on an ordinance to allow an invocation at meetings.

By Daniel Connolly , Memphis Commercial Appeal Thursday, October 1, 2009 A federal judge upheld a Shelby County ordinance that regulates strip clubs and other sexually oriented businesses, a step that could mean big changes for adult establishments in Memphis.

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The U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld the conviction of a Mercer County woman who is serving a life sentence for hiring her lover to kill her millionaire husband so that they could split his estate.