6th Circuit Opinions & Cases | National Law Review

The United States Sixth Circuit includes the states of: Tennessee, Ohio, Kentucky, and Michigan. The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit is the Potter Stewart US Courthouse in Cincinnati, OH. Michigan and Kentucky are further broken down to the Eastern/Western Districts. Tennessee is broken down to Eastern/Western/Northern District, and Ohio is broken down into the Northern/Southern Districts.

The US Court of Appeals for the sixth circuit is in Cincinnati. Kentucky’s Eastern District Court is in Lexington and Western District is in Louisville. Michigan’s Eastern District Court is in Detroit and Western District is in Grand Rapids. The Northern District Court in Ohio is in Cleveland and Southern District in Columbus. The Eastern District Court in Tennessee is in Knoxville, Middle District in Nashville, and Western District in Memphis, TN.

Currently there are 16 active judges and 12 senior judges which make up the bench in the Sixth Circuit Court System. Elena Kagan is the Circuit Judge on the Supreme Court, and Ransey Guy Cole Jr is the Chief Justice for the Sixth Circuit. President William Howard Taft was the only individual to be president and serve as the Chief Justice for the Circuit Court, where he presided over the Sixth Circuit.

American Civil Liberties Union v National Security Agency (2007) is one of the famous cases to come out of this Circuit. The court in this case held that plaintiffs didn’t have proper standing to bring the lawsuit against the NSA. They could not present evidence that they were “targets” of the TSP (Terrorist Surveillance Program). The Appellate court reversed the lower court’s ruling finding that plaintiffs could not prove they were or would be subject to surveillance by the NSA.

The Sixth Circuit has seen plenty of litigation going through the circuit and appellate level in recent years. From mergers & acquisitions, to recent reversals on lower-court cases, the circuit is highly influential in setting precedent in its own district, and throughout the US. The Sixth Circuit is also known for its high rate of reversals at the US Supreme Court level, as a total of 24 out of the 25 times, from October 2008 and ending in June 2013, cases were overturned, making it the highest overturn rate in the US.

The National Law Review covers a broad range of cases decided in the Sixth Circuit Government Surveillance, bankruptcy litigation, tax-court appeals, jurisdictional rights of parties to a lawsuit, class action lawsuits, opioid addiction and drug cases, and cases dealing with employee/employer lawsuits and employee rights. The National Law Review covers general information detailing appointments in the Sixth Circuit, Agency News (NLRB, EEOC, DOJ, DoD, etc.), and the latest lawsuits in the Circuit Court System.

Date	Title	Organization
6 Apr	Sixth Circuit Rules Retiree Healthcare Benefits Claim Is Not Arbitrable	Proskauer Rose LLP
6 Apr	Post-Employment Actions May Trigger Liability for Retaliation Under the False Claims Act	Epstein Becker & Green, P.C.
3 Apr	Sixth Circuit Construes FCA to Prohibit Post-Employment Retaliation	Zuckerman Law
1 Apr	Retaliation Against a Former Employee Can Give Rise to a False Claims Act Retaliation Claim	Polsinelli PC
31 Mar	Key Court Decisions Address Issues Concerning the Application of Title IX	Steptoe & Johnson PLLC
31 Mar	Ohio Highway Construction Company to Pay $315,252.93 to Settle Violation of DBE Program Rules	Strassburger McKenna Gutnick & Gefsky
25 Mar	CREASY COMEBACK?: Three More Heavy-Hitting Briefs Prop-Up Constitutionality Battle in the Sixth Circuit	Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
24 Mar	Loosening Pandemic Protocols Are Pointing to Progress in the Hernia Mesh Litigations	Stark & Stark
24 Mar	Court Confirms: No Private Right of Action for “Spoofing”	Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
23 Mar	Federal District Court Highlights the Risk of Inaccurate and Inconsistent Communications Regarding Leaves of Absence	Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C.
18 Mar	Tennessee Federal Court Dismisses Recent Food Contamination-Related Insurance Coverage Dispute Tied to the Ongoing COVID-19 Pandemic	Hunton Andrews Kurth
18 Mar	WOAH: The ACLU Just Filed an Amicus Brief Supporting Creasy and it is REALLY Good	Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
15 Mar	Practical Pointers for Certifying Questions to State Courts	Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
15 Mar	March 15, 2021: Price Gouging Weekly Round Up	Proskauer Rose LLP
9 Mar	Invited Error, Erie, and Pleading Standards – What to Make of Smith v. General Motors?	Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
8 Mar	Failing To Take Proper Precautions, Hooked Media Lets Trade Secret Misappropriation Claim Off the Hook	Proskauer Rose LLP
2 Mar	Sixth Circuit concludes that the Kentucky Billboard Act violates the First Amendment.	Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
18 Feb	A Closed Book: No Past Infringement, No Reading Between the Lines into the Future	McDermott Will & Emery
18 Feb	TCPA Litigation Update — The TCPA’s Constitutionality After Barr v. AAPC	Mintz
16 Feb	Certified Questions To State Supreme Courts Are Especially Rare In The Sixth Circuit	Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
10 Feb	A “Side Note” About Ripeness	Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
9 Feb	Class Action Litigation Newsletter \| Winter 2020/2021	Greenberg Traurig, LLP
8 Feb	Sixth Circuit Practice Tip: Pendent Appellate Jurisdiction	Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
5 Feb	Hold the Fries: Federal Court Rejects Second Request to Kick Claims in Fast Food Data Breach Litigation	Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
4 Feb	US-China Agreement Supports International Injunction Against Alleged Chinese Counterfeiter Under State Law	McDermott Will & Emery
4 Feb	Sixth Circuit Extends Ban of Contractually Shortened Limitations Periods to ADA and ADEA Claims	Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C.
28 Jan	Another One Goes Awry: Latest Case to Reject Creasy Comes from the Same Court as Lindenbaum	Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
26 Jan	Recent Federal Cases in the N.D. Ohio Split on COVID-19 Business Interruption Insurance Coverage	Dinsmore & Shohl LLP
25 Jan	“Wink Wink”: Unwritten TCPA Policies Don’t Cut It—Court Certifies $100MM TCPA Class Action Regarding Faxes Sent in 2011	Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
21 Jan	Sixth Circuit Invalidates Contractual Limitation Periods Under ADA and ADEA	Miller Canfield
20 Jan	A Circuit Split on Incentive Awards	Pierce Atwood LLP
20 Jan	Sixth Circuit Strikes Down Contractually Shortened Limitations Period for Claims Under ADA, ADEA	Jackson Lewis P.C.
18 Jan	THE CLOCK IS TICKING: Huge TCPA Appeal to Sixth Circuit May Result in Biggest Decision of All Time– Here’s How YOU Can Help	Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
13 Jan	Supreme Court Denies Certiorari in Challenge to Michigan’s Alcohol Delivery Law	Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
7 Jan	Defend Trade Secrets Act Supports Sealing Information on Appeal	McDermott Will & Emery
18 Dec	TCPA NIGHTMARE: Court Grants $122k Summary Judgment Against Debt Collector for Using Noble Predictive Dialer to Contact Revoking Debtor– CEO Must Face Jury on Personal Liability	Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
16 Dec	Assessing the Amount in Controversy When Seeking to Vacate an Arbitral Award	Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
15 Dec	Is Title IX’s deliberate-indifference standard a question of law for the court to decide? Yes—at least “in an appropriate case,” says the en banc Sixth Circuit.	Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
10 Dec	Two Turntables, No Microphone: Using Technical Diagram Is Not Copyright Infringement	McDermott Will & Emery
6 Dec	Sixth Circuit Stays Injunction in Challenge to Kentucky Public Health Measures That Did Not Exempt Religious Schools From General Prohibition on In-Person Instruction.	Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
1 Dec	Employers, Check Your Plan Documents for Claims Procedures	Godfrey & Kahn S.C.
23 Nov	Content May Soon Run Out	McDermott Will & Emery
10 Nov	Sixth Circuit Backs Termination of Public Employee for Racially Derogatory Social Media Post on 2016 Presidential Election	Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C.
9 Nov	The Challenges of Courthouse Operations in a Pandemic	McDermott Will & Emery
9 Nov	Sixth Circuit Rules Lenders Cannot Rely on Borrowers to Satisfy ‘Ability to Repay’ Rule Under TILA	Greenberg Traurig, LLP
2 Nov	Exigent Circumstances in S.D. Ohio	McDermott Will & Emery
29 Oct	ANOTHER ONE!: N.D. Ohio Follows Creasy– Rules TCPA Unconstitutional as Applied to Calls Pre-July, 2020	Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
29 Oct	No Double Recovery by Class Members: Revocation Class Stricken as Duplicative of No Consent Class	Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
27 Oct	Tennessee Election Officials’ Motion to Stay Injunction “Too Little, Too Late,” So First-Time Voters May Continue to Vote by Mail	Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
19 Oct	The First Amendment: Legal and Practical Considerations for Schools in 2020	von Briesen & Roper, s.c.