Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals News

US Court of Appeals Rules Against CAF In P-82 Ownership In a judgment filed November 2, 2009, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled in favor of the National Museum of the United States Air Force in the ownership dispute of the P-82 Twin Mustang.

Mon Nov 9, 6:38 pm ET COLUMBUS, Ohio The U.S. Supreme Court has reinstated the death penalty against an Ohio man who killed and mutilated a man he met in a gay bar in 1985, rejecting a claim that his lawyers erred during the sentencing phase of his trial.

The Supreme Court this week, in an unsigned opinion, reversed relief granted by the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to a death row inmate because of his lawyer's ineffective assistance.

"In an unsigned opinion, the justices struck down a ruling by the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that Robert J. Van Hook, 49, did not have an effective legal defense during the sentencing phase of his trial in 1985.

The adult son of murder victim Tami Engstrom relayed a message to Ohio Parole Board members Monday, asking that they turn down any chance of clemency for his mother's murderer and simply ''fry'' Kenneth Biros.

Farm Bureau petitions U.S. Supreme Court on pesticide case Nov. 4, 2009 WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The American Farm Bureau Federation has filed a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court, asking the high court to review a lower court ruling that will otherwise impose Clean Water Act permitting requirements on the application of pesticides on, over or near ...

The phrase "bow wow wow, yippie yo, yippie yea" belongs exclusively to funk legend George Clinton, a panel of federal judges ruled this week.

Ineffective assistance of counsel is a common habeas petition claim, particularly in capital cases.A This has led me to wonder whether legal representation that is constitutionally deficient should presumptively constitute legal malpractice.A After all, for a capital defendant, effective assistance of counsel can be a matter of life and death.A Yet ...

Lucas County prosecutors are seeking to have Toledo priest Gerald Robinson's latest legal efforts dismissed, calling the convicted killer a "mythomaniac" who fabricates while failing to address constitutional issues as required by law.

A federal appeals court ruled Friday that the family of 15-year-old Brandon McCloud, who Cleveland police detectives fatally shot in 2005, cannot sue the city or the officers for his death.

Last week, two new district court opinions took opposing views on the question of whether the Fourth Amendment protects stored email.

Trumbull Prosecutor Dennis Watkins said he will soon contact the Ohio Supreme Court to get an execution date for local death row inmate Roderick Davie, who was turned down Monday by the U.S. Supreme Court on what could be his final appeal.

In another case, Troy Lynn Rice was given 10 years for being a felon in possession of a firearm.

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.

LexisNexis has 40% more headnoted cases over the past 20 years than the nearest competitor.

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.