Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals News

As detailed in this prior post , just before Thanksgiving aSixth Circuit panel removed a stay blocking Ohio'sscheduled December 8 execution of Kenneth Biros.

An Ohio inmate fighting the state's new execution procedure is asking a federal court to intervene.

The appeals court held Wednesday that the change to the execution procedure in Ohio removed the legal question from the case: [T]he district court's stay order must be vacated because any challenge to Ohio's three drug execution protocol is now moot.

PORT CLINTON -- An appeals court reinstated a rape conviction against an Erie Township man who originally faced 50 sex charges but eventually was sentenced on a single count in January.

As professor-turned-convict Pamela Holder prepares to appeal her yearlong prison sentence, a review of her university personnel files revealed no evidence of her legal troubles.

Kenneth Biros, who could become the first person in the United States put to death using an untested lethal-injection method, should not be subjected to state "experimentation," his attorney says.

A federal court has ruled that an execution set for Dec. 8 can go forward due to a change in Ohio's execution policies.

An attorney for a condemned killer says Ohio's new lethal injection plan is so untested that it would amount to human experimentation if used for the first time next month.

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder says the trial of 9/11 terrorist suspects in civil court is a way to show the world the superiority of the American justice system.

Yes, that "Ha Ha!" was done in a Nelson voice from The Simpsons. The ruling concerned a mortgage held by debtor Mathew Giroux, who filed a voluntary Chapter 7 case in bankruptcy court in Massachusetts on June 27, 2008.

A federal appeals court is pushing a condemned killer to say why his lawsuit opposing lethal injection in Ohio shouldn't be dismissed.

A dispute over who gets to stage events and rallies at Cincinnati City Hall is now in the hands of a federal appeals court.

On Friday, in Johnson v. Sherry , a divided panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit vacated the district court's denial of William Johnson's petition for a writ of habeas corpus and remanded the case for additional proceedings to determine whether Johnson received inadequate assistance of counsel.A In his habeas petition, Johnson ...

In a case watched closely by advocacy groups for the disabled, the Ohio Supreme Court yesterday pondered whether a juror can be disqualified from a case because of a hearing impairment.

Opponents of Michigan's ban against racial preferences in public university admissions and government hiring told a federal appeals court that the law strips minorities of their constitutional rights.

Former death row inmate Joe D'Ambrosio is moving closer to becoming a free man. U.S. District Judge Kate O'Malley ruled Tuesday that she will bar D'Ambrosio's re-prosecution if an appeals court gives her the go-ahead. D'Ambrosio had asked the judge to reconsider her April 27 decision that said he could be tried again in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas ...

A tale of forbidden love in Yemen has spun its way through the American courts, where two Yemeni brothers fearing persecution back home have convinced a federal appellate court to let them stay in the United States.

Michigan's ban against racial preferences in public university admissions and government hiring will be put to the test in a federal appeals court three years after voters had their say.

A federal appeals court is set to consider a lawsuit challenging Michigan's ban against racial preferences in public university admissions and government hiring.

Questions raised earlier this year over the Fayette County Public Schools' programs for students with emotional and learning disabilities have now morphed into a Fayette Circuit Court case.